Parsley,
I asked the CWB yesterday About the value of the Monopoly vs. the Gov. Gaurantee to us as farmers.
The issue is this.
If the CWB was to give up the STE monopoly status, we could keep the non-trade distorting support for the CWB... which the CWB claims that other than the initial gaurantees when called on... are not trade distorting. The present CWB support would become a "domestic" support... and would be allowed under new WTO rules in that respect... if the CWB dropped the Monopoly.
Since the Conservatives have said it is not "if" but "when" we are going to allow voluntary marketing:
AND
Since the CWB knows that the CWB initial gaurantees are of no value now anyway... (are instead a chain around grain farmers necks because of low initials)
Obviously the rest of the gov. assurances create the $1.6 to 1.8 billion of Capital value the CWB claims them to be worth.
Logic would then ask why would we would give up $1.8 billion worth of capital value;
Western Canadian grain farmers must Sacrifice $1.8 billion for a CWB monopoly... that many would argue is worthless;
That the the government in power says needs to change to a voluntary system in any event?
THe answer from Allen Oberg after the series of discredits and denials that this is the case... even though he brought up the domestic support issue himself; was this:
THat the grain companies would never allow the CWB to keep the gov. support.
Why; all of a sudden: should the grain companies all of a sudden be in Charge of what the CWB does, or can or cannot do?
Since when did the CWB Board of Directors get it's orders from the trade?
I am astounded!
I asked the CWB yesterday About the value of the Monopoly vs. the Gov. Gaurantee to us as farmers.
The issue is this.
If the CWB was to give up the STE monopoly status, we could keep the non-trade distorting support for the CWB... which the CWB claims that other than the initial gaurantees when called on... are not trade distorting. The present CWB support would become a "domestic" support... and would be allowed under new WTO rules in that respect... if the CWB dropped the Monopoly.
Since the Conservatives have said it is not "if" but "when" we are going to allow voluntary marketing:
AND
Since the CWB knows that the CWB initial gaurantees are of no value now anyway... (are instead a chain around grain farmers necks because of low initials)
Obviously the rest of the gov. assurances create the $1.6 to 1.8 billion of Capital value the CWB claims them to be worth.
Logic would then ask why would we would give up $1.8 billion worth of capital value;
Western Canadian grain farmers must Sacrifice $1.8 billion for a CWB monopoly... that many would argue is worthless;
That the the government in power says needs to change to a voluntary system in any event?
THe answer from Allen Oberg after the series of discredits and denials that this is the case... even though he brought up the domestic support issue himself; was this:
THat the grain companies would never allow the CWB to keep the gov. support.
Why; all of a sudden: should the grain companies all of a sudden be in Charge of what the CWB does, or can or cannot do?
Since when did the CWB Board of Directors get it's orders from the trade?
I am astounded!
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