Farmers Win Against CWB the Right to go to Court

[parsley]

Melvill,

The CWB Act is the authority and certainly from what I hear, the merchant Law Group has had enough lawyers studying the Act to take anyone's breath away.

Of course the CWB has consistently tried, in both public and to Westerners, to pretend that the CWB's national licensing costs in Quebec and Ontario are the only ones the Federal Government should pay, and they are so small it's neglible.

But, the cost of licensing in every province, by every applicant,is a part of National licensing and the Act says the total cost of national licensing is legislatively, to be paid by the Feds.

The Federal Government gave the CWB SOLE authority to be the only one in Canada to issue export licenses, in 1947. Two years ago, Ontario wanted the Federal Government itself to begin to issue licenses, but the CWB cried themselves to sleep every night and started wetting the bed, so the Feds allowed them to continue issuing export licenses. They probably didn't want to open up the Act.

The licensing part of the CWB Act applies equally to all applicants, right across Canada, whereas the Marketing arm, that many Westerners are are more familiar with, applies only to the Designated Area.


To try and pretend that the Federal Government would pay the national licensing costs of everyone BUT the West, reveals a Wheat Board that is trying to defend the constant stealing they have been doing. Taking cash out of our pooling accounts to pay for a Quebec millers flour is both unfair and illegal. But making Prairie farmers pay for the its' own West's licensing costs, when the Federal Government is to bear that national cost is totally irresponsible.

And the Act iswhere I got this.

Parsley

[parsley]

Vader,

Let's talk about costs.

There is an entire licensing Department in Winnipeg. I agree.


The Federal Government should pay $15,00.00 for the "Miss CWB Employee" (your figure, but for this forum I won't quibble)for licensing duties outside the DA. Perhaps 1/4 of her worktime? I agree.




AND HERE IS THE IMPORTANT POINT:



The Feds also must pay the cost of licensing in the West. The West is also part of Canada, Vader.

The entire cost of the Licensing Department,the remainder of Miss CWB's $45,000.00, all the pensions, for at least the past 15 years must be re-imbursed by the Federal Government into the pooling accounts. Plus interest.

Vader, the licensing function lies in the national Part IV of the Act and NOT in the regional Marketing Part II of the Act. And that national licensing applies equally to all Canadians. I'm a Canadian.


Parliament did not intend the Government to pay everyone's licensing costs EXCEPT the West. Parliament intended the Government to pay everyone's licensing costs. The CWB ought to be ashamend.


And there is more Vader.


Last year the CWB bragged that the cost of the trade war was $10Million . But the Act says that the cost must be borne by the Federal Government. The CWB can send observers, for which the CWB must pay, but the Government is utimately responsible for the cost of a trade dispute. How many years has the CWB been taking trade dispute costs out of the pooling accounts?
How much money, with interest must be put back?

Think about this. National licensing does not include just the actual licensing, but it includes the cost of developing policy. For example, the cost of Ontario trying to withdraw from the grips of CWB licensing, the meetings, the trips to Ottawa.

The Export Manufactured Feed Agreement had to be developed, staffed, and CWB feed mill inspectors hired. All so feed mills could bypass Board pooling. All licensing costs are supposed to be paid for by the Feds but they are coming out of the pooling accounts. What is the matter with the CWB?

The cost of charging farmers for going across the borders without export licenses is a national licensing issue, and Ralph Goodale's continual heavy-handed presence certainly validates that idea So the cost of all the court cases is a national licensing expense. In fact, the CWB have continuously claimed that it was Customs and not the CWB who was pushing jail and fines. Therefore the Federal Government is responsible for paying the bill.

And if the CWB Directors had any decency at all, they would be sending the bill to the Federal Government, and re-imbursing the pooling accounts. They would be harassing the Government to pay. It's the decent as well as the legal thing to do.

Farmers are not helpless. We can definitely fatten up the pooling accounts.

Parsley

[parsley]

Vader,

It's hard to deal with the straight facts, isn't it? They are difficult to refute.

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence". John Adams