Today, Alberta's CWB Director Jim Chatenay was on the radio show "As it Happens" on CBC Radio with host MaryLou Findlay. He will spend 61 days in jail or pay a $2500.00 fine for taking one bag of wheat across the border. The reason he is in this predicament is because he did not have a CWB export license when he crossed the border and Customs charged him for not having a license. Quebec doesn't need even to apply for a license.
Why did he not have an export license? Because the CWB refuse to issue any export licenses to Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba producers. The CWB Act DOES NOT support their denial of export licenses based on where you live, but the CWB dsiregards what the Act says.
On the front page of today's National Post, there is an article on the farmers who will be in court, and probably going to jail for exporting without a license. "The 12 farmers were convicted and fined in March, 1997, for violating the Canada Customs Act.', explains the National Post, but the Post doesn't tell you that one of the farmers had his truck seized and has never gotten it back from Customs.
Ron Duffy from Alberta is slated to spend 107 days in jail. And he is prepared to do just that. 107 days in jail! Because the CWB refuses to issue export and interprovincial licenses to prairie farmers.
During the time of the farmer protests against the Canadian Wheat Board in 1996-97, the National Farmers' Union spokesperson, Nettie Weibe, publically stated that she wanted the Government/CWB to make sure that anti-CWB Protesters were put in jail. Looks like Wiebe will get her wish. Maybe she can suggest to incorporate it into the CWB's never-ending policy put out by their Communications Department for the oncoming election,(like Halpenny just floated in the previous thread) .
"Jail All Those Who Question the CWB"
Almost every farmer in western Canada will be eligible for this kind of Wheat Board intimidation .
Parsley
Why did he not have an export license? Because the CWB refuse to issue any export licenses to Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba producers. The CWB Act DOES NOT support their denial of export licenses based on where you live, but the CWB dsiregards what the Act says.
On the front page of today's National Post, there is an article on the farmers who will be in court, and probably going to jail for exporting without a license. "The 12 farmers were convicted and fined in March, 1997, for violating the Canada Customs Act.', explains the National Post, but the Post doesn't tell you that one of the farmers had his truck seized and has never gotten it back from Customs.
Ron Duffy from Alberta is slated to spend 107 days in jail. And he is prepared to do just that. 107 days in jail! Because the CWB refuses to issue export and interprovincial licenses to prairie farmers.
During the time of the farmer protests against the Canadian Wheat Board in 1996-97, the National Farmers' Union spokesperson, Nettie Weibe, publically stated that she wanted the Government/CWB to make sure that anti-CWB Protesters were put in jail. Looks like Wiebe will get her wish. Maybe she can suggest to incorporate it into the CWB's never-ending policy put out by their Communications Department for the oncoming election,(like Halpenny just floated in the previous thread) .
"Jail All Those Who Question the CWB"
Almost every farmer in western Canada will be eligible for this kind of Wheat Board intimidation .
Parsley