CWB and the C.D. Howe Study

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Near-Issueless McKague Has Two Left Feet
Right about now, some of the wanna-be-CWB directors and some of the incumbent directors are probably trying out waltzing together, nudging, and snuggling, and dipping, ....er, positioning is a better word. Who's vying for committee work, or the chairmanship, or who's eyeing tripping the light fantatsic all the way to the WTO each year, first class; my my, a waltzing Matilda is certainly going to want to support her man in case she gets to go along. Both choicers and single-desk factions will be feeling each other out, so to speak. Are there any flashy newcomers ?

I checked out CWB Director hopeful Lonny McKague's website thoroughly today; he's from Southeast Saskatchewan. One issue he has focused on is Administration Costs. I like that. But there is little else but his wish. He doesn't say what the present Admin budget is, or whether he's like to take it downwards by say, 25%, or he doesn't say what area he would cut back, (for instance, dump the weather station), and he doesn't say what it compares like to other years. And I can't ask him. Has he contact numbers or emails on his website? I missed them if he does, or maybe he doesn't want calls. But, come to think of it, a guy I know gave McKague's email to this other guy I know, and that guy gave it to his wife's best friend's cousin's uncle, so I hope it works when I send McKague a link. I'll sell it to anyone for a tooney. Parsley<a href=”http://www.parsleysnotebook.blogspot.com/”target=”blank”> Click Here to Visit Parsley’s Notebook Blog to Read More. </a>

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CWB District # 8
It will be interesting to see how many farmers come out to vote in CWB Director's District # 8, with less than 7,000 eligible voters, where the incumbent, Rod Flaman lost his bid to win a Liberal MP seat in Ottawa a mere few days before the applications for CWB candidacy closed.

Racing to run didn't faze Flaman, though, and a few 'sleeps and dreams' later, he put in his nomination papers to run for a CWB Director's seat for another term. So far, he's running as a single-desk candidate, but there is still a bit of time left before the voter polls close, for him to to calculate what constituency polling reflects. If he succumbs to a marketing-attitude adjustment, it would be no surprise to some farmers if his precedent is any indication of the possibility of things to come.

If Flaman wins, it'll probably be because there are so many cattlemen in Southeast Saskatchewan who do not receive CWB ballots, nor have in the past mustered the enthusiasm needed to actually apply for one; Schnell will be lucky if one hundred cowboys make the effort to apply for a ballot vote to support him. Schnell has the ability and experience to bring warring tribes of farmers together, a fractured group we are, whereas, a Flaman win will, without doubt, fuel the producer thinktanks fighting any change at all. At the same time, a Flaman win would end up igniting even more and more invading torches of ideas, ideas of choice, ideas of farmers owning their grain, hard ideas to snuff out, each one held higher, each one shining brighter, as each producer brings their light of choice to the end of the seventy year old tunnel. Schnell can make peace. And peace means concentrating on wealth creation, not fighting amongst ourselves. Pars<a href=”http://www.parsleysnotebook.blogspot.com/”target=”blank”> Click Here to Visit Parsley’s Notebook Blog to Read More. </a>

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Flour Mills in Manitoba in 1947 before the CWB Swallowed the Milling Industry
Where have all the flowermills gone?

Long time passing.



Altoana Milling Co. Ltd. Altona

Ellison Grist Mill Tuelon

Gardenton Milling Co. Gardenton

Harrison Milling and Grain Co.. Holmfield

Ho11and Flour Mills Hollan

Huron Hutterian Mutual Corpn. Benard

Kent Flour Mills. B. P. Virden

Maxwell.Hutterian Mutual Corpn. Pigeon Lake

Morris Milling Co.. Ltd. Morris

North Eastern Flour Mills Ltd. Beausejour

North West Flour Mills Fisher Branch

Ogilvie Flour Mills Co. Ltd Winnipeg

Pine River Flour Mill Pine River

Purity Flour Mills Ltd. St. Boniface

Roblin Flour Mill Roblin

Sandy Lake Flour Mill Sandy Lake

Sifton Flour Mills Siftton

Simpson Flour Mills Benito

Somerset Flour Mills Somerset

Soo Lines Mills Ltd. Winnipeg

Steinbach F1our Mills Steinbach

Turtle Mountain Flour Mills Deloraine

Wawanesa Flour Mills Wawanesa

Winkler Milling Co. Ltd. Wink1er



Would you like freshly ground flour in your community these days? Uh huh. Well, go get the boat full of CWB wheat stranded in Sri Lanka, you dumb yasses

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Flour Mills in Saskatchewan in 1947 before the CWB Swallowed the Milling Industry
Where have all the flourmills gone?

Long time passing.

Saskatchewan

Assiniboia Flour Mills Assiniboia

Battleford Milling Co.. Battleford

Battleford Milling Co. Battleford

Canada West Grain Co. Ltd. Melfort

Central Saskatchewan Flour Mills Ltd. Wakaw

Consumers Co-operative Mills Ltd. Outlook

Esterhazy Flour Mill Esterhazy

Estevan Flour Mill Estevan

Foam Lake Flour Mills Foam Lake

Gravelbourg Flour and Feed Gravelbourg

Hub City Flour Mill Saskatoon

Kamsack Flour Mill Kamsack

Kayville Flour Mills Kayville

McNab Flour Mills . Ltd. Humboldt'

Melville Milling Co. Melville

National Flour Mills Ltd. MooseJaw

Prairie Milling Co.Ltd. Herbert

Prairie Milling Co.Ltd. Tompkins

Quaker Oat. Co.. of Canada Ltd. Saskatoon

Redberry Food Product Ltd. 8askatoon

Regina Flour Mill Regina

Robin Hood Flour Mills Ltd. MooseJaw

Robin Hood Flour Mills Ltd Saskatoon

Sunrise Milling Co.Biggar

Swift Current Flour Mills Ltd. Shaunavon

Swift Current Flour Mills Ltd. Swift Current

Union Supply Co. Ltd. Rosthern

Unity Flour Mills Unity

Waskesiu Mills Ltd. Prince Albert

Weyburn Flour Mills Ltd. Weyburn

Wynyard Flour Mill Wynyard

Yorkton Milling Co.Ltd. Yorkton

Viscount Flour & Feed Mills Viscount

And then with their 1947 legislation, the CWB began de-value adding....... Pars

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Count the Flour Mills Yourself .....Don't Count on the CWB

There are 19 wheat flour mills in Western Canada in 2008
Manitoba has 4
Saskatchewan has 5
Alberta 6
B.C. has 4
No wonder you've been choking on the CWB's value-added-rejection coffee, David Schnell. You'd better win the CWB Director's seat, or else DA farmers will be singing, "And then there was ONE." Parsley

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Ask the CWB: Is WTO an International Organization or a PTA?

From the CWB Act:
Expenses in relation to international wheat marketing organizations
"33.(4) Expenses incurred by the Corporation with respect to any international organization for the purposes of marketing wheat and the expenses of any commissioner or officer of the Corporation of and incidental to attendance at meetings of that international organization or any committee thereof shall be deemed to be expenses incurred in connection with the operations of the Corporation within the meaning of this section, but nothing in this subsection shall be construed as authorizing the payment by the Corporation of any contributions required to be paid by Canada to or in support of that international organization or any committee thereof. "

And DA farmers are footing the bill........uh....... because ? ..........? Huh? Parsley

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If Quebec Requires CWB Licenses, Why is DA Western Farmers Paying for them?

37th PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION
Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food

EVIDENCE
CONTENTS
Thursday, June 6, 2002

http://www.parl.gc.ca/InfocomDoc/37/1/AGRI/Meetings/Evidence/agriev73-e.htm

Mrs. Rose-Marie Ur (Lambton—Kent—Middlesex, Lib.): I have just a couple of quick questions. Just for information, do producers in Ontario still have to apply to the Canadian Wheat Board for export licences? Pars

Mr. Jim Thompson: If they are exporting their grain out of Canada they have to apply to the Canadian Wheat Board for an export licence.

Mrs. Rose-Marie Ur: In Quebec, is it just granted that they don't have to do this?

Mr. Jim Thompson: No. Quebec, the Atlantic provinces, any regions outside the designated area require an export licence to export grain from Canada.

Mrs. Rose-Marie Ur: So why don't producers in Quebec have to apply?

Mr. Jim Thompson: They do have to. A producer in Quebec would have to apply, yes.

Mrs. Rose-Marie Ur: I was given information here that the CWB has decided it would no longer require producers in Quebec to obtain an export licence. So that's not true, then?

Mr. Jim Thompson: That's not correct, no. They do require an export licence to export wheat and barley, and the products thereof, from Canada.

Mrs. Rose-Marie Ur: The question went on to ask that if Quebec doesn't have to have an export licence, why does Saskatchewan have to have it? Why do Saskatchewan producers not have that option unless they have the buyback?

Mr. Jim Thompson: No, it doesn't say that. Under the act, export licences are required for the export of wheat and barley and products thereof from all regions of Canada.

Mrs. Rose-Marie Ur: Right.

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Who Pays National Canadian Wheat Board Licensing Costs?

Edited Committee Evidence * AGRI * Number 065 (Official Version)
06/11/2001 9:08 AM

Mr. Howard Hilstrom: Sure they make money. They've got a monopoly of acquiring it and this is an interesting thing that Neil brought out, that for some farmers they get back as much as 110%, under this famous pooling system and that obviously you've taken 10% ITom somebody else to give to that person just because of the bureaucratic system.You can answer that, this is my last question.

How come Ontario and the rest of Canada and B.C. do not want to be involved with the Canadian Wheat Board and have them do their marketing? And also you can cover at the same time, who is paying the fees for the manufactured feed, the seed growers for all these export permits? Who is paying those fees? Is it not the pooling system because that's the only money you guys get? I'll let you answer those questions.

Mr. Ken Ritter: Sir, we have jurisdiction, Mr. Hilstrom, through the chair, over grain produced in the designated area and that's our jurisdiction. So there's a difference between that and Ontario and the Maritimes and so forth. The fees that are involved with the granting of an export licence, I'll refer that over to Jim, but my lmowledge is that, you lmow, it's very, very minimal, and it is a requirement under the legislation that we do that.

Mr. Howard Hilstrom: Who pays it?
Mr. Ken Ritter: Pardon?
Mr. Howard Hilstrom: Who pays those fees?
Mr. Ken Ritter: Well, it comes out of the general pooling account
Mr. Howard Hilstrom: Right.




Designated Area farmers ONLY, pay the national licensing costs. It is supposed to be the Federal Government who pays the costs of national licensing. Q Do you really think Parliament would make Western farmers pay the licenisng costs of exporting an Eastern miller's flour, and then put it into legislation ? Think about it twice. Now a third time.



NO. But we're still paying. Pars.

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Give up silverback? I'll bet you're glad I'm not so much on AV thses days! lol Pars

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This is for you cott, lol, copied from from PN:


Fermatoseconds


A friend who is an avid reader, enthusiastically wrote to me about his coming across fematoseconds. They are a billion trillionth of second, which is a very very short time.

And then he imagined the notion what if there are beings living on earth with us who " who live as though fematoseconds are like our seconds...in which case entire Fematofolk lives are lived in much less than the flickering of your eyelid," putting the notion out there. Well, that made me blink. You'd have to know him to understand his cleverness.

And then he went on to add, "In fact you sitting at your desk reading this are a statue in their world, never moving (hard to imagine Carol stationary through countless generations of Fematofolk, but she is). You would be like...a rock...almost eternally at that desk! Now wouldn`t that make a good novel, partly written from the point of view of you getting to the desk, and partly written from the point of view of Fematofolk family growing up around you sitting there always? What a concept!

Sounds like he should be writing the novels. Pars

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Parsley , I want more choice

If I wanted to read you and only you I would go to your website

So quit being the Dominatrix and let other people on this thread..