WHAT IS CWB "SINGLE DESK SELLING?"

[ceresent]

The current situation with the CWB monopoly begs the question: What will the single desk do to help me survive as a grain farmer in Western Canada over the next few years?

We already have established, and history has proven, that the CWB is a price taker in the world market, and they cannot increase the world price and pass this on to their captive supply - the farmers of Western Canada.

Well, can they then do something for us in terms of world market share?

On July 17, 2000 the CWB posted a paper entitled "Special Market Reports" in which they analyzed world trade in wheat and barley to the year 2008.

These are their own conclusions:
1. While world trade in wheat will increase 22% by 2008, the Canadian share will only increase by 3%
2. The Canadian share of the world wheat market will decrease from 19.5% to 16.6%.
3. World barley trade will increase 43% by 2008, while Canadian barley exports will imcrease by only 8%.
4. The Canadian share of the world barley trade will decrease from 16% to 12%.
5.Over the last few years, Canada was clearly the 2nd largest exporter of wheat in the world. By 2008, the CWB forecasts we will be a very poor 3rd, marginally ahead of 4th place Australia.

So much for all the benefits of the CWB monopoly to Western Canadian farmers!

Their own numbers show they are not up for the challenges of the future, and they selfishly will not let anyone bypass their ironclad monopoly.

[parsley]

AdamSmith says, "The only hitch is the CWB will refuse to grant me an export licence unless I pay their extortion fee (buy-back)".

What they tell you and what they do are two different things, Adam Smith. They tell the registered seed growers they can have the license. They tell a whole bunch of types of producers they can have no-cost licenses. So we know they can.

And some producers are denied. Some illegally denied. There is an utter difference between the producer that has committed his grain.....permit books, contract, buyback etc.....and the producer who has not.

AdamSmith, they have been refusing DA farmers export licenses for NO REASON, and that is not what the Act says they can do. There will be some very interesting things that will happen to the CWB because they have been groping outside their legislated mandate.

Once it is established that they have over-reached their legislation, producers will need to establish a different way of doing business. Elevators and feed mills are designated by Parliament as "works for the general advantage of Canada." producers and farms are not.


Chas, you can find the CWB Act

canada.justice.gc.ca/en/laws/c-24/index.html

It's important that youkeep in mind that the Act applies to all of Canada, and there are two functions of the CWB Act....marketing and regulatory. The marketing arm applies only to the designated area

This Act is your regulatory body. What the CWB says is often meaningless. What the Act says is Law, and that is what you answer to
Parsley

[chas]

Parsley: Thanks for the information. Chas

[TOM4CWB]

Chas,

I know this is difficult, but the CWB's power and control is over elevators and railways, or "works for the general advantage of Canada".

In 1925 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the Canada Grain Act conflicted with 92 (13)constitutional rights of the province to control activities in that province.

The Court further ruled that a farmers own produce, in his own hands was not an article of trade, in the flow of "trade and commerce".

This is why the CWB Act controls

Trade and Commerce "IN" Interprovincial and Export Marketing.

Ungraded grain is not "in" the flow of trade and commerce.

I tried to explain this to the Federal Court in June but they were in such a hurry to get back to their golf game that they wouldn't even let me explain it to them!

I tried, maybe the Supreme Court of Canada will hear it???

They have been looking at it for over 4 months now!

But I won't hold my breath!

[TOM4CWB]

Chas,

I just went and checked, and all the information on my Supreme Court of Canada Application is up and avalible.

There are 3 option spots at the top of my election home page, and the one on the right is TRIALS.

Click on this TRIALS, and then go to each document, the originating notice of motion, Application to the Supreme Court, and so on. The top option of each one of these choices will take you straight into each document.

My seed issue, when is wheat wheat, and when is seed wheat not wheat!!!,,, is mixed in because it highlites the CWB's problem.

Why doesn't the CWB market export seed wheat? Yet they don't, and their isn't an exemption in the legislation!

The Attorney General of Canada taught this to me, at the Canadian Grain Commission, I wasn't smart enough to think it up on my own, so go have a look, when you have some time to think... real hard......

[TOM4CWB]

In case you don't know, my internet site is

tom4cwb.com

[parsley]

ceresent, I don't think the single desk can do anything to help you survive.

I read all the things that you quoted about world market share, and I realized that a lot of farmers are a looking to value-add....create wealth.... instead of the usual piddly increase of acres or increase of yield for profit realization. They will get us no where fast.

The CWB is an exporter of raw materials. Legislatively. It spends millions of your hard earned dollars training other countries to value-add Canada's raw products. Helps them create wealth. And basically it's not where the rest of us are headed.

Look out for yourself ceresent. Survive by looking around you and discarding what keeps you from creating wealth.

Parsley