Check the date on this post...what's changed in 5 years?

[Incognito]

parsley posted Mar 3, 2001 10:49
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That is correct Tom4CWB. There are two parts to the CWB Act. One is the marketing-pooling part. It applies to the Designated Area.

The other part is the Regulatory part and it applies to all of Canada. Right now, the CWB is sliding money out of the DA pooling accounts to pay the regulatory costs in all of Canada. The CWB ACt says they cannot do this. It is illegal.

Look at it another way. The producer in Ontario applies for an export license. He is granted a no-cost license. There is a cost associated with this procedure. But the DA pooling account pays the costs!

On the other hand Chas in Alberta applies for an export license. He is routinely denied.

So Chas pays for the licensing costs of the guy in Ontario who is granted the license.

Meantime, the Act says the Government of Canada must pay those licensing costs.They're not.....

It's the principle of the thing! And the cost as well....over 50 years of downloading regulatory costs on DA producers adds up to a lot of $$$$$.

Only in the CWB, would farmer-directors not even know what the CWB staff are doing.
Parsley

[parsley]

Glad you read it incognito.

Those licensing-costs TOTALS, (costs that are consistently deducted from the pooling accounts),continues to slowly balloon.

There are more feed mills. Every one of them needs to be licensed, and their agreements need to be reviewed, and renewed. Paid for by farmers. New contract forms. Meeting with Customs. Aligning with Gov't depts.

There are new border terrorist concerns. They are a licensing issue, are they not? Did anyone in the CWB have a meeting or two, about licensing-safety issues? If not, why not? Who paid for the meetings and staff? Farmers! Yet, Licensing is a national gov't expense.

If farmers do not tend their money, someone else will gladly take it.

All the Licensing staff, their pensions,(licensing policy-makers too); in other words, anything to do with national licensing is repayable to the pooling accounts.

And that includes licensing in the DA.
Western licensing costs are a Federal Government responsibility.

Quite a TOTAL sum, wouldn't you agree, incognito?
Parsley

[TOM4CWB]

Incognito;

I understand we have the right to go to federal court and have this issue dealt with. 3 years to have the court say we can go and have this issue resolved.

Talk about Liberal and CWB stalling tactics!