Federal Government Introduces Legislation

[Ron]

vvalk, we had a tie but I like my rant more.

SCREW THE CWB
SCREW THE CWB
SCREW THE CWB
SCREW THE CWB
SCREW THE CWB
SCREW THE CWB
SCREW THE CWB
SCREW THE CWB

Whew, time for a beer

[parsley]

Any dumbass knows that organics are NOT ALREADY ALLOWED out of the Wheat Board.

Period.

We still have to be involved with the Wheat Baord.

Ontario does not.

Quebec does not.

Albeit, a negotiated rate, we still have stupid people to negotiate with. And explain it to.

I want a bloody Minister who knows what is important. Knows how to give an order. Knows what he is there for.

Being able to bypass the Wheat Board is what is important.

Then the farmers who enjoy chasing "rules" can continue on with their merry little games of Grow Lots to Vote.Wear a tie to Vote. Eat Beef to Vote with Eugen Whelan's progeny to run the program.

Parsley

[Ron]

Parsley, you can bypass the CWB with a token payment. Thats a "get out of jail free" card to me.

SCREW THE CWB

[Ron]

Just thought of a scam?
If I grow less than 120 tonnes/year then I cant vote. Then should the CWB apply to me? If I get a permit book for each of my 4 kids, partnership with my wife, hmmm. I think I can wiggle at least a dozen books at 119 tonnes each. Plus my 3 non farming landlords. 15 permit books that dont count would be 1785 tonnes/year?

SCREW THE CWB any way I can

[parsley]

"get out of jail free" card means very different things to you and I.


The Wheat Board negatively applies to you because it's most important function is the licensing, not the marketing function.

You/farmers/Ritz want to tinker with marketing rules.

"We need one Director over 6 feet tall,"
"Gotta have one woman".

A fourteen month discussion on how many acres to vote...100?

A seven month discussion on which crop to vote.."gotta have wheat",

"nope gotta have barley,"

"nope gotta have both within 4 years,"

crap, crap, crap.

We need to fOCUS on LICENSING


Once we have a blanket license, none of the above matters. The CWB can spend years planning and commissioning and debating the makeup of the Wheat Boarers.

Farmers can bypass them with license in hand, not pay for their stupid nonsense, their stupid lonterm planning that has seen wheat and barley deciamted under their watch.

Keep your eye on the ball. The issue is not about tinkering with the makeup of the Directors. It is about bypassing the CWB altogether.

It is about Licensing.

Parsley

[parsley]

Question:

Maggie, the corporate head lawyer for Axiom Big Toes, is a major shareholder in a farming corporation called LanticOcean, along with her mother, Ma Perkins, and her father and her sister and her brother, her uncle and her cousins, all lawyers by the dozens, but they never see Maggie alone on the farm.

They farm 167 sections of land.

Does Maggie and her lawyer shareholders get a CWB vote? LanticOcean grows the requirements set out.


btw, Lots of pattern baldness in the family, but no pattern stupid.

Parsley

[wilagro]

Any farmer with a Permit Book should be eligible to vote for a CWB director.

What is so terrible about that?

That is the way it USED ro be and should still be even under the semi-divine guidance of Ritz.

[parsley]

Maggie her uncle and her cousins, all lawyers by the dozens, are shareholders and have permit books


In your world, should they have a vote?

[wilagro]

"This legislation will ensure voters in CWB director elections are genuine farmers who have produced at least 120 tonnes of grain in either of the two crop years preceding the election. The Government of Canada intends to have these eligibility requirements in place for the director elections in the fall of 2008."

I'm going to get a rubber stamp made which will say "GENUINE FARMER" and use it on all of my correspondence.

I would dearly love to tell Mr. Ritz what he can do with his "genuine farmer" baloney.

If they are going to restrict voter eligibility why not raise the bar and say that nobody can vote unless they are a card carrying member of the CONservative Party of Canada AND actually grow at least 12000 tonnes of wheat in any given year. That way the RIGHT kind of director would be assured.

[parsley]

What is a genuine farmer?

1. A cow-calf operation who currently grows forage?

2. A Hutterite colony with each member of the colony a permit book holder/

3. A vegetable producer in Nanavut?

4. A member of the Forty-six First Nations Farming Co-op with each a permit book holder/

5. Wives of farmers?

6.Four brother partnership...do wives get a vote?

How do YOU determine who is eligible?

Or do only Wilagro rules apply?

Or only Ritz rules apply?

AND WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO PAY FOR THE DEYERMINATION AND the stupid wrangling?


That's my point.

Parsley