Option 2 is "Advice to the Minister"

[Vader]

Parsley, when you show me that you can be mature and responsible I will respond in a like fashion.

I could care less what the CWB did prior to 1998 because it was controlled by the government. The governance structure change that came into force in 1999 was designed to put control of the CWB in the hands of farmers. You keep talking about stealing. That makes me angry. There is no transfer of funds to the government. All revenues less the admin costs go back to producers.

I will admit that the government of the day is doing everything in their power to take control of the CWB. It is my job to tell them that they cannot do that. The control of the CWB is in the hands of the directors. The CWB Act says that. The CWB Act does need changing to complete the transfer of control from the government to the farmers. I am tired of being a "shared governance" entity and having to listen to the anti-CWB directors that the government has placed on our board.

The government should introduce legislation to complete the transfer of control to the farmers. Then farmers would know that the CWB had only one boss. I know that is not what you want. You want the CWB to be destroyed. You will never be able to convince me otherwise. I often remind myself what your husband once told me. His greatest fear, when you and he supported my campaign to become a CWB Director, was that I might actualy fix the Wheat Board.

[Vader]

Fran, once again you get an "F".

The minister can do nothing that is in compliance with the CWB Act. He failed to get the producers to vote in favour of the exclusion of barley from the CWB Act. If he tries to introduce legislation to that effect he will be breaking the law. If he tries to do something by regulation that he cannot do by law his regulation will be struck down. Just like Charlie Mayer!

[charliep]

Vader

Just a reminder barley is already an open market crop (the CWB is irrelevant to feed barley except for masking price signals from export markets). The only real question is on malt barley.

Hopefully questions can be answered quickly. I again note the CWB has exising sales with the domestic maltsters right into new crop 2007/08. Hopefully the issues of making political statements/positioning the CWB ahead of the wheat don't trump the business needs of all members of the malt barley supply chain.

[Vader]

You are quite right Charlie. I think it is quite pertinent to note that the CWB does not function at all in the domestic feed barley market. This supports my view that in an open market there is no opportunity for the CWB to add value. The value of the CWB is the single desk.

And yes questions should be answered quickly. This is the season for maltsters to contract with the CWB. How have the actions of this government hampered the ability of the CWB to respond to this market. How have the actions of this government undermined relations between the CWB and its customers. What will this cost farmers and who will pay. These are questions for this government to answer.

[AdamSmith]

Excerpts from a newly released book titled RANTINGS OF A COMPLETE LUNATIC

I will admit that the government of the day is doing everything in their power to take control of the CWB. It is my job to tell them that they cannot do that. The control of the CWB is in the hands of the directors. The CWB Act says that. The CWB Act does need changing to complete the transfer of control from the government to the farmers. I am tired of being a "shared governance" entity and having to listen to the anti-CWB directors that the government has placed on our board.

In this one paragraph the author openly contradicts himself. He starts the paragraph by stating that control of the cwb is in the hands of the directors (which he is obviously one of those directors) then two sentences later he proclaims that he (as a director) is tired of being a "shared governance" entity. It is clear the individual here can not seem to differentiate between reality and what he wishes reality to be.

At the beginning of this next paragraph, "The government should introduce legislation to complete the transfer of control to the farmers. Then farmers would know that the CWB had only one boss.", the writer acknowledges that what he wishes reality to be is not a reality. The writer then goes on to expose his true motives and those motives are clearly sinister and self-serving as he states clearly that he wants to be the BOSS OF ALL FARMERS.

In the next paragraph this poor delusional writer shows us another side of him, a side that must have failed 2nd grade math. "He failed to get the producers to vote in favour of the exclusion of barley from the CWB Act." As it has been reported in all the papers that 62% of those polled expressed a clear preference for excluding barley from the exclusive jurisdiction of the cwb.

[Fransisco]

On the plus side though his spelling is better than most monopolists and he seems to know when to capitalize letters.

[Fransisco]

Although punctuation seems to be a bit of a problem.

<blockquote>"What will this cost farmers and who will pay."</blockquote>

For future reference Vader questions should end with a question mark.

They look like this.

<b>?</b>

[agstar77]

You're a really twisted personality A.S. i.e. you sure know how to twist statements to support your point of view. Strange I thought the CWB elected directors could speak for us as Minister Strahl can speak for his constituents, or am I missing something about democracy working for one side and not another?

[AdamSmith]

I won't deny I'm a little twisted, Agstar. But think about it, we all have to be a little twisted to spend so much time on this issue.

[agstar77]

Yes , I agree, but what else can you do when spring is'nt coming?