CWB Looses USTR case

[charliep]

Tom we are argueing over pennies here, go back to the GPO thread and read what you said about gouging our customers.

[TOM4CWB]

Charlie and Kernel,

I have no problem with what either of you are saying;

But the bottom line is that a monopoly with a majority of directors who make more money from it, or off farm income, than from their own farms (one told me he rented his farm out, cause it wasn't making a good enough return)can not deal with the reality of those few who must actually make a living from growing wheat.

I was told today that in Alberta there are 60,000 farms, but 10,000 of them produce 85% of the production!

Is it fair that 15% of the production represented by 50,000 farms who obviously do it for a "hobby", should dictate how marketing must occur for the 85% of production?

This does go back to who represents us, but more importantly why they have the right to expropriate my grain and cause this problem with the US to begin with.

The CWB no doubt is in a no win situation! But the CWB could issue no cost licenses to us who don't want or need to use the Canadian grain handling system tommorrow!

Producer cars are the relief valve to make our grain handling system competitive, and no-cost export licenses were supposed to be the relief valve to make the CWB competitive.

Just as there are inherent risks with shipping producer cars, so there are these same risks in shipping that avoids the Canadian grain handling system.

Arbitage happens almost instantly, and I believe the good guy bad guy benefit that the CWB would encounter(and can use as a selling tool) will benefit the CWB (western grain producers)far more than the a little competition, will drop prices!

The fact is that the CWB will have the obligation to listen to ***kernel, which will help world prices to increase, not decrease!

And that would be a good thing, wouldn't it?

[TOM4CWB]

Tom4cwb: I have got to agree with you Tom. The Alberta Gov. appears to be our best hope in getting us a free market. The directors of the CWB should be allowing a vote on a voluntary CWB market or not, under a vote of one acre one vote as was mentioned in a previous thread.

The Kernel