New CWB Initials rip off Fixed Price Contract Farmers

[TOM4CWB]

Chas,

I guess the point is that the CWB monopoly was never intended for farmers!

A buy-back that extracts 15.00 a tonne out of the CWB pooling account is not the intent of section 45 of the CWB Act or of section 14 of the CWB Regulations!

In fact section 7 of the CWB act demands that CWB Act Section 45 Section 14 Regulation profits be returned to the Receiver General of Canada, not the pooling accounts of the CWB.

This is the point, the CWB is not being straight with farmers, grain companies, or the tax payers of Canada, in my opinion.

I simply bring this up to see if I missed something in the Statutes, since I can see no other logical reason why the CWB continues without a firm legal base to operate upon!

Some day someone will get all these issues before a Court of competent jurisdiction, and then maybe we will be able to solve these issues!

What do you think Chas, should the CWB do a reference to the Federal Court of Canada, and ask them to answer these questions?

[TOM4CWB]

On Section 7, and lower pooling account returns, The CWB should be getting the money from Parliament, not from the Pooling accounts when a farmer is issued an Export License pursuiant to Sections 45, 46, and 14 of the CWB Act and Regulations.

It is very unfair when I have people come up to me about the buy-back and say "keep your mouth shut Tom". "With the last interm payment I already made money on the buy-back."

This means with about $30.00/t in many pooling accounts these guys get to have higher US prices plus steal from the pooling accounts.

According to Section 7, if Mr. Goodale wants to operate this way, then he should pay, not have it illegally come out of my final payment!

[parsley]

That is correct Tom4CWB. There are two parts to the CWB Act. One is the marketing-pooling part. It applies to the Designated Area.

The other part is the Regulatory part and it applies to all of Canada. Right now, the CWB is sliding money out of the DA pooling accounts to pay the regulatory costs in all of Canada. The CWB ACt says they cannot do this. It is illegal.

Look at it another way. The producer in Ontario applies for an export license. He is granted a no-cost license. There is a cost associated with this procedure. But the DA pooling account pays the costs!

On the other hand Chas in Alberta applies for an export license. He is routinely denied.

So Chas pays for the licensing costs of the guy in Ontario who is granted the license.

Meantime, the Act says the Government of Canada must pay those licensing costs.They're not.....

It's the principle of the thing! And the cost as well....over 50 years of downloading regulatory costs on DA producers adds up to a lot of $$$$$.

Only in the CWB, would farmer-directors not even know what the CWB staff are doing.
Parsley

[TOM4CWB]

Parsley,

I don't know that this can really be blamed on the CWB Directors!

It is obvious that the CWB Legal department sanctions these illegal activities, and probably even Ralphee G. is in the loop. Who knows, even Jean Chretien told all of them to do it, and they can't help themselves!

This of course does not change the fact that what they are doing is against the law.

Do you think we could hire Canada Customs and Revenue department to get our money back, and if they refuse to arrest them?