NFU REPORT

[Jay-mo]

Kodiak, I could not agree with your comments more.
I too had much higher expectations of Mr. White.
What is it about being on the inside at the CWB that turns intelligent, open minded people into mindless, party-line touting, defensive, nimrods?

How many B.O.D.'s have been elected on a free market platform only to flip-flop once elected.
Is this because once on the inside they are privy to information that completely changes their minds on the issue or something less then above board? Golden handshakes?

[agstar77]

You ever consider that you are missing something. It seems that everytime anti-CWB types don't like the answer they are given, they want to change the question. Maybe you want someone who is braindead as CEO so you can pull his puppet strings. Mr. White came from a free market background and I doubt he would put up with the incompetence in employees that you espouse. Also I doubt he could survive without the confidence of the B.O.D., which include several dissenters. Besides the great Harper could turf him, he has done it before.

[wade]

or possibly??? when sworm in, you take an oath to act in the best interests of CWB reguardless of your own personal beliefs or what is really right or wrong or what the masses want

[LWeber]

Agstar:

Who at the Board of Directors table has the ability to run a 7 billion dollar corporation?

If you don't want to name them - how many of the 15?

Who at that same table would know the difference of a good sale or a poor sale?

Where is the sales data collected to compare their sales to? Acredited agents? Sales staff?


Pars:

No thats not what i meant. Every ag minister has a small group outside of Ottawa that are his ears/eyes and conscience.

A select group or chosen individuals are giving the Minister advice.

Who are they?

[Fransisco]

So not telling the truth is in the best interest of the board? Good luck with that.

[agstar77]

Maybe you could get retiring execs from GM to run the CWB, GM used to be a big corporation. Competence doesn't seem to be abundent in the private sector.

[Kodiak]

Prior to entering the building Mr. White talked about the importance of the CWB and its single desk bringing real value to farmers. Now that he's on the inside, when its value is scrutinized or benchmarked all we get is the same old predictable instantaneous press releases we've always gotten. The assumptions were invalid. The numbers were too simplistic. The premise was flawed.

Any fresh new perspectives that could have been brought to bear, any objectivity that comes with a different background has taken a back seat - replaced with the same old pattern that has existed since 1998. Anyone of us could write his press releases for him. We've heard it all before.

Parsley's (qand other's) no nonsense questions about overhead reductions, improved efficiencies and accountability? Nowhere have I seen even an acknowledgment that that's part of the job. Only defensive reactions to the legitimate questions anyone dares ask.

Where's the vision? Where's the leadership? Where's the change?

Puppet strings? Yes, they're being pulled alright.

[bucket]

They already have execs with the same mindframe as gm running the cwb. Why do you think the comments you read are being written. The ceo's are useless at both corporations.

And as far as giving anyone a severance for underperformance parsley - thats bloody nonsense.

[agstar77]

And who would you appoint to run this ship? The Gene pool seems to be limited.

[Kodiak]

The gene pool is not limited. I think it’s just that anyone with the smart genes knows the ship is sinking, and aren’t interested.

The problem is structural. Dramatic re-engineering is the only thing that will keep it afloat. Much more flexibility in the design is needed - plus an off-ramp. When, or if, the Feds and the BOD ever recognize that, the CWB will have a future. Competent management will be found. But if neither the government nor the BOD does anything with it, it will drift aimlessly about and eventually sink under the weight of controversy and irrelevancy.