Farmers favour single desk!

[wade]

In our county the higher payers do get better deals-eg. better tax rates for big bisiness moving in, better roads to and from colonies. Let's face it, a bigger stick does talk!
The CWB FORCES us to market through them ( at gunpoint at the borders). Sounds more like what I heard about Russia as a kid growing up.

[AdamSmith]

Oh just freakin wonderful we get to keep going over the same gawd awful ground we've been going over since 1996. (The western grain marketing panel)

We've burned out more freaking tires than Big Daddy Don Garlits, and we havn't moved an inch.

Chuckchuck and his crew still deny that a substantial portion of western canada's farmers want the monopoly gone, and that volume doesn't matter a wit.

News for you chuck, Volume is what the grain business is about, always has and always will be.

The cwb policies and direction will not change (ooh shocking revelation here)they will continue to develop and promote policies that appeal to the low volume producer and drive away the high volume ones. This will result in lower and lower volumes of wheat and barley marketed. (in their minds this is somehow good, not clear how but they seem to think so)

On the flip side our side is still stuck ranting to ourselves that this is unfair, woe is me. Since when has life ever been fair?

Get over it. There is a way to change this and it isn't through director elections. Focus on that. That ship has sailed.

[Kodiak]

So chucksquared, you think it should be one person one vote? How do you think that concept would go down when shareholder votes are held? You own 99% of the outstanding shares of a company, and the guy with 1% has the same weight as you with one vote each? Feel good?

The CWB likes to view and talk about itself as a corporation, not a government. It says it is a commercial entity. It even calls farmers its shareholders - or used to. Yet when it comes to voting for marketing choice or for its Board of Directors (truly a corporate governance system - its not a parliament or a legislature or a municipal council- its a BOARD OF DIRECTORS) you want the vote to be like its a government.

Which is it? Fish or fowl?

[dirtgirl]

oh i so agree with you Kodiak!

[Burbert]

I got exiled from this site, for using the words chicken excreta. RON must work for the detractors cause he can swear like a true conservative, "f off" and not face the wrath of this anti CWB site, here on Angriville. Whats with the double standard. The missinformation highway is becoming just about totally useless

[agstar77]

He was forced to be profane by the CWB election, it's not his fault.