2008 CWB Election Results

[agstar77]

At least I don't accuse people of voting more than once or that one producer should get more votes than another . Those are the same people who didn't want women to vote.

[AdamSmith]

So what has changed from yesterday?

I need to see the numbers to make a proper assesment but I did hear Bill won in district 10 on the first ballot with approx 54%.

And this is new information how?

Pro board in MB 54% Pro choice 46%

We knew this three years ago.

But this is where all parties involved have made a mistake. We've allowed an election to a board of directors to be an ipso facto vote on the monopoly. Maybe this is what Ralph wanted but nobody wins in these elections, not even cwb supporters.

Why? because near as I could tell all candidates were polorizing hard core one way or the other types and the liklyhood of the cwb being in a good position to function into the future is getting nearly nil.


Just My 2cents

[charliep]

Agree Adam Smith

Risk management and how to operate in a new world where farmers want low cost risk management products will be first priority for the new board of directors.

Today's CWB producer payment options (I keep wanting to using pricing options but even Bill Gray recognizing they have nothing to with price) are expensive for farmers and high risk for the CWB pooling accounts (worst of all worlds). I note that producer payment options the last couple of years have made up about 1/4 of the overall pool size and are likely to grow in popularity.

I also note again the 2006/07 annual report where the CWB lost $48.7 mln in their risk management attempts to obtain an average price (page 43) and $40 mln on the producer pricing options (page 58). will be interesting to read the results in the 2007/08 annual report.