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"Take away the CWB Act... and what does the CWB have?"

1 A guy riding around in purple tights waving his lowcost-buyback license, claiming the PM is dangerous.

2. A couple of organizations who are so convinced the CWB will get them more money, they would chain themselves together, and lemming themselves over the cliff to vote communist.

3. They'd have David Orchard and Ralph Goodale forcefully chained together in the pasture, both wanting to be boss of the "Jump-start my Board Again" society, both crippled by the other, but co-operativley running Jump-Start as disjointed CEO's.


4. They'd have a certain accredited agent meowing on their doorstep, scrawny and beat-up and damned hungry, asking, "Where's my cream?"


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HOUSE OF COMMONS STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

NEWS RELEASE

Pre-budget consultations 2008
Ottawa, June 19, 2008 - The House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance is planning to hold its public hearings on the 2008 pre-budget consultations when Parliament resumes in fall 2008.

The Committee hopes to hold public hearings in:
Ottawa
Vancouver October 1
Edmonton October 2
Yellowknife October 3
St-John's October 6
Moncton October 7
Lévis October 8
Regina October 20
Winnipeg October 21
Toronto October 22

If you wish to make an appearance before the Committee during its consultations, please advise us electronically by indicating the city of your choice no later than Thursday, 31 July 2008.

http://cmte.parl.gc.ca/cmte/CommitteePublication.aspx?SourceId=244914

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Won't be long before Chairman Mao Tze Hill will be propogandizing that a MAJORITY of DA farmers voted to keep barley soley under the CWB, without even choice.

That's a true Mao tze Hill! Let's give him until the 15th of August before he starts throwing a number out...say 80%, naw, better make it 87%, yup, can't you just hear him claiming, "87% of the barley voters were soley in favor of soley CWB monopolizationary selling"? I can.

He'll be advocating for you. Breathe it in, slowly. Repeat, "87% of barley voters wanted the Board." Relax.

Anyone for good odds?

Read em and bet:

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The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)
2008.07.08


CWB directors have duty to advocate for farmers

After reading his letter, Gov't committed to bringing choice to barley growers (SP, June 30), it seemed to me Gerry Ritz, the minister for the Canadian Wheat Board, has not yet had the opportunity to fully familiarize himself with Justice Roger Hughes's ruling in the case of the so-called gag order that Ottawa had imposed on the board in October of 2006.

In his ruling, brought down on June 19, Justice Hughes declared, "(t)he minister argues that he has a duty to safeguard the funds of producers that may be at risk. I do not find such a duty set out directly or by reasonable implication to the act.

To the contrary, the provision of a board of directors, 10 of 15 of whom are elected by the producers, places the duty to safeguard the producers' interests with the board, not the minister."

Given Hughes's decision, it is hard to see how Ritz can continue to justify his government's attempt to "step in" and prevent the farmer-controlled board of directors from doing the job we've been elected to do.

That job includes advocating on behalf of the majority of Prairie farmers, even when the views we're advancing run contrary to government policy.

Larry Hill
Chair, CWB board of directors
Swift Current
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You have an advocater!
Why the hell doesn't somebody ask Hill why he is taking money out of the FARMERS' pooling accounts to pay for the Export Manufacturesd Feed Mill Export licenses, and to pay for probing the feed loads, and to pay for feed inspectors...and to pay to licensing all the multinationals' feed loads,..... all paid for by FARMERS.

Can't you just hear him say, "I want to save the big companies some money. I am advocating for farmers. If farmers pay, I am a good advocator."


Are you gonna buy it?

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