Latest CWB survey to cost $275,000.00 says Oberg...

[Braveheart]

All the crying about jobs in Winnipeg leads me to wonder what happened when the wheat board was forced on the industry (without a farmer vote) in 1943. Did journalists and opposition MPs bemoan the loss of the private grain trade? Did the Province of Manitoba cry out over the loss of jobs at the Winnipeg Grain Exchange? How many private firms just closed their doors almost overnight?

[bucket]

Braveheart

Mission terminals is the cwb aka adrian measner. A fine secret experiment the cwb tried without anyone taking notice. Volume up 600 percent at mission, a smaller crop in 2010 and yet every ****ing elevator is still plugged. Most of the elevators on the prairies should be sweeping out board grains with a 100 percent call in place since march.

The grain companies should be waiting for harvest and instead they extend the crop year to the end of august.

All this crap about a plebiscite probably means they are hiding something somewhere. Its a diversionary tactic.

It won't be known for a couple of months, maybe after the results of the vote but the cwb ****ed up again this year and cost prairie farmers probably a billion.

[blackpowder]

'Politics' is involved in all human relations. In commercial business it involves many things including profit.
In state owned agencies 'politics' is for survival only.
The study of history affected by politicians whose ideal was survival is dreary ( see Baldwin and Chamberlain).
The same study involving those whose ideal was to do the morally right is interesting (see Churchill)
You can bet there's been a lot of ass grabbing in Winnipeg over the years. ( re: Port of Churchill)
The difference between the action in Winnipeg and Chicago is, in Winnipeg it's taxpayer funded, civil mandarin shoveled, and lawfully kept in the dark.

[Braveheart]

Yes Bucket, I knew about Adrian and Mission Terminals/Upper Lakes Grain Group. I think the way the board and Mission are in bed together would make Jimmy Hoffa envious.

I'm sure you're right about the Billion the board will have cost us this year. The paper shredders better be greased up. They're going to be busy.