Where are the 85,000 farmers?

[rosco]

Tom, do you mean that there are 5 families that actively take their income from one operation(eg 1 dad, 4 sons, all involved in operations) in which case I think they should have 5 votes, or one family that employs 4 other workers, which to me is only worth one vote. If you actually operate a parcel of land and lay out the money for inputs, make the decisions, take the risks, then you should have a vote. But for glorified hired men, sorry, you don't have a big enough stake in this.

[just_wondering]

I still have a problem with the question of voting at all on what I do on my farm with a crop that would not have existed had I not had the initiative to grow it. There is only one voice that counts, mine.
I understand that with the system that is in place thats the only game in town but your main concern should be when voting in this election is who would be the best manager of my company.
If you chose to belong there will be no plebicite, with the last months actions by the Fed Govt marketing choice will be a reality for the 07 crop year plan for it now.
As far as Toms or anybodies economies of scale don't worry about it, it does not concern you.

[TOM4CWB]

Just_wondering;

I agree with you.

We shouldn't be voteing on what our neighbour does with grain they grew.

Best manager of the CWB Corp. is what this should be about.

And this shouldn't have anything to do about "single desk" issue... it must be about effective marketing.

Administration of a corp. that manages billions... to return the best opportunity/info for a good decision as a marketer on my marketing team.

[wedino]

When did producers vote to implement the single desk? Only vote I'm aware of was canola in early '70s & that was lost. CWB got its monopoly from the war measures act in 1943. Lets end it the same way it was created, a simple stroke of the pen.

[stubblejumper]

wedino you don't remember the barley vote?

[AdamSmith]

Rosco you wrote;

I get one, you get one, every cwb active farmer, and those who request "farmer" status get one. What makes you better than me? Bill gates gets one vote. Stephen Harper got one vote. Chuck Strahl got one vote. It's called the democratic process, it's what we live by,

When Bill Gates is voting for his congressman, he does just get one vote, but when Bill Gates is voting for who is on Microsoft’s BOD, he gets 100 gazillion votes. There are a different set of rules for him to follow when deciding the future direction of his company than there are when he’s deciding the future direction of his country.

One set of rules apply to the computer business, and a totally different set of rules apply who runs the country.

If you believe this is an issue about the CWB’s mandate to be in the wheat business, you have to accept the concept of weighing votes.

If you believe this is an issue about the CWB’s mandate to be in the control business, you accept the concept of one man one vote.

I personally believe it’s the former, but to the cwb and many others it’s the latter.

[wd9]

<p>So, uh, what ever happened to the CWB election task force that looked into the process and weighting of acres etc?
In the meantime I'll be...
</p>

[AdamSmith]

wd9,

I believe it went to the sameplace that you went to.

[GrainVac]

Are we voting on politics or business??? Consider this - I own shares in a publicly traded company, my votes are weighted to the direct proportion of ownership or interest I have in it, it depends solely on my interest and someone who has no stkae in the business has no say whatsoever. In politics, every single Canadian of voting age gets a vote regardless of money, status etc... The CWB claims it is a Producer controlled "business" organization, not Government "political" agency. Which is it? Can't have it both ways. I think it has to be weighted by some measure or else left decided by all of Canada. Why the double standard

[wedino]

Stubblejump, Don't remember, I asked that you remind me in a previous thread, please remind me.