Parliamentary debate on CWB

[liberty]

There was a debate today in Parliament over the CWB. According to a Small Dead Animals reader, who listened to the debate on CPAC, Winnipeg MP Anita Neville stated that 5 Cargill employees could do the work of 460 CWB employees. Anita, however, apparently couldn't see the irony of her own statement.

She seems to believe that 460 employees is the better deal, due to all the jobs this creates in Winnipeg.

If I were a single desk supporter, I'd be concerned about having friends like this.

Premiums indeed. It seems that any premiums are getting sucked up into that office building on Main Street and never seen again.

[northfarmer]

Vader, you should like this, one of your allies exposing the truth in her own ironic statements of support....

making money growing grain is hard enough without subsidizing the economy of Winnipeg with a bloated beuracracy of inefficent staff....

with pro monopoly supporters like your MB MP we should be in good shape when this gets put to the farmers....but the real bombs will start to drop when the accountability act exposes the cwbscam of the west.....should make for another round of good hay to be made for next federal election....

go chuck go, pedal to the floor..there is still one more spot on the BOD to fill..Adrian's time is up!!!!I am sure the liberal party has a job for him somewhere...

[katoe]

Cargill has tens of thousands of employees.

[chaffmeister]

katoe:

and your point is..........

[Pulseman]

And all the grain co's already do the work of marketing. Buying CHRSW from CWB for say $220/mt at the coast and sell for $250 to importers. Understand, this is clear port. So the grain co's make now, today, with the CWB $30/mt that should be ours.

Nothing would change for us, the system would just work more fluid and without contract calls, simply regulated by pricing. You want to ship now and get your money now? Lower price. You want to ship in April? Clear, higher price.

The rest of the world works that way, just Canadian farmers are told that they are to dumb to to this.

I have asked it a hundred times and nobody answered me: give me freedom, that's all I want!!!

[chaffmeister]

Pulseman - I concur with your sentiment but can't agree with your costs. Accredited Exporters do not make $30 a tonne exporting CWB grains.