Check the date on this Post: What has happened in 6 years?

[TOM4CWB]

Incognito: Remember this?

parsley posted Mar 3, 2001 10:49
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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

Are we any closer now than in 2001 to resolving this issue?

[wd9]

Shows the true influence of farmers in this issue. Uhm, zero!

[parsley]

Wd9,
There has been some activity.

Merchant Law Firm from Regina launched a class action law suit against the CWB, to try and recover money that has been (still taken everyday) taken out of your pooling accounts, to be put back INTO the pooling accounts.

The national Licensing bill is supposed to be paid by the Federal Government.

The present elected Board of Directors are FIGHTING, FIGHTING FIGHTING to make sure the CWB itself, farmer money, pays for national licensing.

The CWB's tactic has been to delay, delay, delay in the courts.

Parsley

[northfarmer]

is this class action suit still open form more participation? if so i would like to sign up

[sask]

just searched the Merchant web site site and did not
find CWB in its list of class action suits (which is long
by the way), but it is not a bad idea...

[parsley]

Call/e-mail

the man himself

Tony Merchant

merchant@merchantlaw.com

TONY MERCHANT, Q.C.
1 866 982 7777

This is what is said:

He is accessable.

He thinks farmers are getting a raw deal.

He is not scared of Governemnts.

He is the ONLY lawyer who would initially listen to the residential abuse stories.

Parsley

[cottonpicken]

Good old tony made the news tonight.He screwed a bunch of first nations{10,000 to be exact) out of some money and now has protesters outside his building.He refused to open his books to show what he charged in a class action suit.

But your kind of people heh pars.

F@ck#n ambulance chaser.

[northfarmer]

seen the same story on him some time ago, I thought the deal on this was that he is not being paid his share of legal fees on some negotiations on behalf of first nations by the Federal department of Indian Affairs, his fees were in the millions and Prentice and teh feds would not pay without seeing his books.....I thought they said his firm had strong ties with federal liberals....if that was the case hard to see him wanting to beat up on the CWB if he is tight with Goodale and company? is Tony the partner in this firm that also handled this first nations file....

[northfarmer]

Maybe Merchant won't open up the books unless the conservatives force him to(who does that remind you of).I imagine the accountability act definitely would not have made it through had some Liberal senators (ie.His Wife)realized this was what they meant by accountability.