CWB director election reforms

[TOM4CWB]

Dear Jeff,

THis is kind of like rearranging the chairs on the titanic.

It wouldn't matter the voter process at all... if the CWB obeyed the CWB Act and let all 'board' grains go that were not offered to it... per Section 32 of the CWB Act.

There is no difference between the price inside and outside Canada as per NAFTA... therefore there is no pecuniary benefit.

Lets get on with making the CWb credible and responsible for its actions... and do what should have never been stopped in 1993... allow grain growers to vote with their trucks. Goodale messed the CWB up... it is now up to you and Henry to reverse the mess and fix it.

THis is the only way the CWB will survive long term... you know it... it is your job to create a new CWB that can work for all of us... fairly... in the long term... without discrimination! THat is your duty set forth in the CWB Act.

[Hopperbin]

Good any grain not offered to the CWB should be allowed to sell to highest bidder, any grain offered to the CWB the CWB must market. They should not have a monopoly on export either. I agree to making the CWB competitive and accountable and much more simple to do business with. Basically gotta back up with to the CWB with a truck and load up 90 percent of their garbage and hall it away.

[haveapulse]

Went to the Leonard Cohen concert (which was as good as a bumper crop with high prices) and one of his many memoralbe lines applies: "there is a crack, a crack in everything that's how the light gets in, how the light gets in."

A better voters list would at least validate the elections, and we can ask for accountability and transparency order 10,000 reports on the moribund institution, however only a
dual market would create a competitive market which is necessary for performance of the board.

In a competitive market they must proform, because if they don't we have a choice. which is why Ontario wheat is 1$ higher than ours. At 1$ higher that is 1/2 a billion dollars in lost revenur for wheat alone!

Problem is with the current voters list, how will the light get in?
And that is why it is such an important question.

When I ran in district 5 I spent most of my time talking to retirees who were grateful for my call so they could talk farming for a bit. A retiree had the same vote as a fellow farming 25,000 acres.

I realize that in this last election their was a reveiwe of this list, but based upon what Henry says it it did not go far enough. And so I ask Henry and JEff how can anyone on the board defend this voters list? And if they do please advise us who does? We need to first find the crack, so the light can get in.

As a business entity, individual votes do not have merit, the business model is based upon votes per share.

Voting shares need to be appropriated based upon tonnes of all grain delivered.

NO matter whether you grow wheat, barley, peas, lentils, carraway or canola you are impacted by the wheat
market.

One vote for the first 20 mt, 1 vote for every 1000 mt thereafter. Or some proximity to be determined by a no doubt onerous procedure to insure some level of relevance to the large and small producers.

Goodness if the average return from last year was not enough to create a crack in the minds of even the most ardent "For" Cult member, asking what went wrong with orderly marketing, then what would be?

Pray tell.

It is no longer about for and against it is now fair to say that both siddes lost, and now we must have change.

The crack needs to be found and the light needs to get in.