Is CWB a Funding Agency?

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Ever wondered why your pooling accounts are leaking money? :


"Her Excellency the Governor General.... on the recommendation of the ... The Canadian Wheat Board ...hereby deems the payment of a contribution by The Canadian Wheat Board from the separate account
.... of not more than $500,000... to fund the construction of the University of Alberta’s Agri‑Food Discovery Place....

There's more .

Parsley

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By the way, that last post was gazetted on 2005-10-25.


Well, 2005 was a bad year, at least down our way, so, Vader, was cash taken from the pooling accounts for the following that was gazetted:

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council,..... on the recommendation of the President of the Treasury Board and The Canadian Wheat Board, pursuant to section 39 of the Canadian Wheat Board Act, hereby authorizes a contribution by The Canadian Wheat Board, from the separate account referred to in subsection 39(2) of that Act, in the amount of $165,000
to fund a Fusarium Head Blight Research Project for barley for a second year, on the condition that funds are available.


I thought the checkoff was for research?


Parsley

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Gazetting for initial funding for fusarium was done on 2004-05-05:


Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, deeming the purpose of the payment to be for the benefit of producers of wheat and other grains, on the recommendation of the President of the Treasury Board and The Canadian Wheat Board, pursuant to section 39 of the Canadian Wheat Board Act, hereby authorizes a contribution by The Canadian Wheat Board, from the separate account referred to in subsection 39(2) of that Act, the sum of $165,000 to fund a Fusarium Head Blight Research Project for barley, on the condition that sufficient funds from that account are available.


Don't we have a barley checkoff?


Parsley

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1998-08-26

Authority for THE CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD to make a payment to the CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL GRAINS INSTITUTE in order to establish a pilot pasta
plant and a malting barley research institute.


incognito,and chaffmeister, farmers are paying for a pasta facility! Who will be allowed to make pasta in Western Canada? China?

Parsley

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1999-1998

Order authorizing THE CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD to defray the expenses and costs incurred by the Board to facilitate a research and development program
involving RAPID INSTRUMENTAL OBJECTIVE TESTING methods in identifying varieties of cereal crops and detection of quality characteristics


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Her Excellency ...... hereby authorizes the expenditure by The Canadian Wheat Board, from the separate account referred to in subsection 39(2) of that Act, a sum not exceeding $150,000, to fund a variety identification project to further develop DNA-based variety identification technology, on the condition that sufficient funds from that account are available.


Has this money been "available", Vader?

Parsley

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2000-10-23


"Authority for THE CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD to make payments out of the "separate account" in order to defray expenses and costs incurred in establishing
the Canadian Malting Barley Research Centre."

Is this where you go to bend your elbow?
Parsley

[Incognito]

Controlled by farmers....right...!

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Remember when Chairman Ritter talk-showed around the provinces flamboozling that there are no licensing costs from the Ontario, and for heavens sakes, the Maritimes don't grow wheat?

Well, the gazetting on 1994-11-29 shows the CWB is partners with NS!:

Approval of the entry into an agreement with the NOVA SCOTIA GRAIN MARKETING BOARD, which provides for the implementation of a cooperative marketing plan for WHEAT produced in the Province of NOVA SCOTIA during 1994.


But they don't grow or license, right?

Parsley

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Just kidding about the last one. Ypu can't believe everything you read.

But gazetting information can be gleaned from:


www.pco-bcp.gc.ca

Parsley

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Canadian Wheat Board Act
PART III: INTERPROVINCIAL AND EXPORT MARKETING OF WHEAT BY THE CORPORATION
Regulations and Authorizations respecting Certificates and Accounts
Transfer of undistributed balances
39. (1) Where producers of any grain sold and delivered during a pool period have been for six years or more entitled to receive from the Corporation payments in respect thereof under certificates issued pursuant to this Act or out of an equalization fund, or otherwise, and there is an undistributed balance remaining in the accounts of the Corporation in respect of that grain, the Governor in Council may authorize the Corporation

(a) to adjust its accounts

(i) by applying the undistributed balance in payment of the expenses of distribution of the balance mentioned in subsection 33(2) with respect to the same kind of grain in any earlier pool period, and

(ii) by transferring the remainder of the undistributed balance to a separate account; and

(b) to pay to the persons who are entitled to receive payments in respect of that grain the amount to which they are entitled out of the separate account.

How transferred balances to be used
(2) Any balance transferred to the separate account pursuant to subparagraph (1)(a)(ii), other than such part thereof as is required for the payments referred to in paragraph (1)(b), shall be used for such purposes as the Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Corporation, may deem to be for the benefit of producers.

R.S., 1985, c. C-24, s. 39; 1998, c. 17, s. 28(E).

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I understand that the CWB has the legal authority to take money from the pooling accounts, and they have certainly taken their authority seriously.

2004-05-05

Authority for THE CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD to make a contribution towards the purchase and installation of equipment for the UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
GRAIN STORAGE RESEARCH FACILITY.

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council,...on the
recommendation of the President of the Treasury Board and The Canadian Wheat Board, ... hereby
authorizes a contribution.., a sum not exceeding $400,000 to fund the purchase and installation of equipment for the University of Manitoba Grain Storage Research Facility, on the condition that sufficient
funds from that account are available.

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2000-10-23
Authority for THE CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD to make a contribution to the UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA for its Agribusiness Chair in Co-operatives and Group Marketing.

Aint handing out cash just plain fun?

Parsley

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2001-05-10
Authority for THE CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD to make a payment to the CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL GRAINS INSTITUTE from funds in the separate account
for improvements to be made to its facilities.

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2004-05-05
Authority for THE CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD to make a contribution towards the purchase and installation of equipment for the UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
GRAIN STORAGE RESEARCH FACILITY.



Farmers out there better be planting a big crop. You have a lot of things to buy for a lot of institutions out there.

Parsley