CWB FIRING!

[agstar77]

Anderson want's to destroy the CWB before Con/ref are tossed from office. The only way they can do this is by totally demoralizing staff and confidence in the CWB throughout the world. A new CEO would be Anderson's puppet to purge the CWB of all wrong thinking saff. Joe Mcarthy would be proud of Chuck.

[parsley]

agstar, you endorse government running farmers' wheat marketing when the gov't of the day mouths your political philosophy, yet you condemn government involvement when they disagree with your political philosophy.

That is the problem with depending upon, and looking to, ANY government to run your business. Your rhetoric bites you in your mouth.

Don't divide. Christians are right and Buddhists are wrong. Conventional is right and organics is wrong. State marketing is right, individual marketing is wrong.

For the wrangling to stop, the agstars of the world have to accept that some farmers simply do not agree with you.

Some farmers are going to move out of the Wheat Board house.

[chaffmeister]

When it comes to demoralizing staff, better think about giving Measner the credit/blame. Who knows what was going through his mind when he informed staff that he would be fired – BEFORE ACTUALLY BEING FIRED. According to all accounts, staff are now demoralized, confused, and in turmoil – a direct result of Measner’s “announcement”. His role as leader is to counter all outside influences that may demoralize his staff. Unfortunately, he is also to blame for the turmoil brought about by his battle with Ottawa.

He reminds me of my ex-brother-in-law who decided to include his children in his battle with my sister. They paid a huge price they didn’t need to.

If Adrian was truly thinking of the CWB’s staff, customers and reputation, and he knew he was leaving, he would discretely negotiate with the Minister a dignified exit strategy that would include Adrian handing off to the new CEO with ZERO acrimony, actually making it as seamless as possible and minimizing the turmoil. There is no need for the staff to feel his pain. By the way, most staff don’t give a hoot about the single desk – for them it’s just a job, no philosophic bent.

The way Adrian’s going about this just makes him look like a cry-baby.

Like spoiled brats, it seems Measner and Ritter think their tantrums will result in them getting to keep their old toy. Do they really believe that this drama of theirs will actually accomplish anything?

[AdamSmith]

Agstar, I hope you’re right that the new CEO will purge the CWB of all the wrong thinking staff.

Your absolutely right chaff, Measner and the BOD's have brought all this on themselves, it was their call to bitterly and irresponsibly oppose the government policy.

Agstar if there is an erosion of confidence in the CWB, don't you think the antics of the CWB running around and shouting at the top of their lungs "The sky is falling, the sky is falling" might be a greater contributing factor than the government’s policy?

As I've said many times before, the CWB's main argument in this whole process has been to make headlines which proclaim to the world that the CWB is so pathetic at what it does, that if asked to compete the cwb is doomed to fail.

Agstar, don't blame Harper, Strahl and Anderson for trying to implement a policy that the Conservatives ran on and helped them get elected on. Where you expecting them to just say "Oh never mind".

Measner and the BOD's are the true architects of their own undoing.

[agstar77]

I blame Harper ,Strahl and Anderson for putting the cart before the horse. They have not received an endorsement from grain growers on what they want. They are telling them what is good for them. Mr. Anderson is on a personal crusade to destroy the CWB and does not care about the majority of producers that wish to retain the CWB. Minister Strahl is making a mockery of his statement that he wants a strong CWB. Firing directors and replacing them with his minions will not strengthen the CWB. Minister of the CWB , that will not meet with it's directors. He should be the one to be fired!!

[parsley]

Hmmm. Will the CWB's B of D's actually listen to the Minister?

As I said in the other thread, a valid R-CALF trade dispute threat is simmering. Maybe the one ace in the hole the CWB actually has is George W. because a Texas cattleman might full well realize what a range NAFTA-war will do...countervail-strangle Canadian livestock imports to the USA.

So what will be the reaction of CWB Directors to Minister Strahl when he pulls up his chair at the CWB's Main Street building,(probably seating him in the hallway) and announces, "Hey, you farmers have a policy in place that contravenes NAFTA.

Is the Act important or not?

In the eyes of the B of D's, when does the Act finally become important, agstar?

Will Vader this time take the position that the Act should not be followed?

Parsley

[agstar77]

I guess we will never find out, who will listen to who, because Strahl refuses to meet. This has escalated to the point where grain farmers are set to take a financial bath because of political idealogues.

[chaffmeister]

Financial bath!?
How so? Because of political idealogues? (I think you mean idealogies.)

And please don't bore me with citings from Murray Fulton or the NFU. Or the CWB.
The CWB's value proposition has never been proven. Never.
So if you're going to predict a financial bath because Strahl has a different vision of the CWB that Measner, please be good enough to also explain it - in real terms, not theory.

[parsley]

Grain farmers will most certainly take the bath. And the B of D's still getpaid.

Because single-desk elected directors refuse to issue export licenses for off-Board feed barley, the CWB is in violation of Article 309 of NAFTA which forbids such export prohibitions.

We live in the Information Age! Couple that with smart farmers, and blogs such as Small Dead Animals (with Wheat Board related pages), and suddenly farmers can all read and understand that a silly single-desk farmer policy places the CWB in contravention of NAFTA. And duties add up.

single desk on barley = contravention

You can't have it both ways.

Which do you choose?

Parsley

[chaffmeister]

Parsley - are you saying farmers WILL take a bath due to the squabbling? (Which is what Agstar is saying.)

Or are you saying farmers DO take a bath because they can't access markets?

I'd agree with the latter - but not the former.