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    The Etch-a-Sketch Solution

    How many of you are familiar with the toy, etch-a-sketch? It’s an 8inch by 12inch red sketching toy with two dials or knobs on the bottom that when tuned will cause vertical or horizontal lines to be formed on it’s very low tech screen. It’s sixties or seventies technology.

    Anyway what ever particular design the budding artist creates can be easily erased just by shaking the device until all the lines have been removed and then a new design can be created. That’s the easy way. The hard way is to backtrack over the drawn lines with the internal pencil thus undoing what has just been created.

    Our wacky, zany, out of date wheat and barley marketing system is the same as a child’s etch-a-sketch creation. The lines are rigid and the designs bare almost no resemblance to what vision may have been in the mind of the creator.

    But at least the child has the common sense to give the toy a quick couple of shakes to clear the screen so he/she can start fresh. We, on the other hand are trying to backtrack the pencil over our flawed lines as if we’re to stupid to grasp the concept of such a simple solution.

    #2
    Adamsmith,

    Would the CWB Communications Department in Winnipeg have used the device?

    The CWB tried spinning NAFTA as the reason why trialing export licenses for Prairie farmers wouldn't work, but farmers quoted the NAFTA text and made the Board's arguments indefensible, and all of a sudden, no more NAFTA claims. Did the Communications Department gave the device a shake? No more NAFTA lines, anyhow.

    The Board tried spinning why they hadn't broken the Code of Conduct, but the farmers gave reasons quoted from the Code why they had, and that seemed to be the end of defending their claims with facts and proof. Did the Communications Department gave the device a shake and voila, no more C of C lines?

    Handy device.

    Parsley

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      #3
      parsley,

      I believe this device has been used quite extensively since the arrival of the elected directors.

      This is just rumour mind you, but I’ve heard instead of carrying laptops one or two of the farmer directors use the etch-a-sketch, which is an up grade from the Deluxe Doodle-Pad they first came in with.

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