Questions at Agriville;
Where did all the money the CWB stole on our Basis contracts go?
There needs to be a forensic audit… and find out what is happening… has happened since October 1 / 07.
It Sure looks like have averaged over $2.50/bu OVER the MGE futures… since then (Oct 07)… that is over $90/t. The basis has been as high as $300/t above the futures… and never once has gone negative.
This means that the folks who used PPO contracts… have cross subsidised the pools… 4mmt times $90/t… over $300 million. In the end… the pool will be over $30/t higher than it should be… if proper spreads were used on the basis.
New Crop:
The Great Grain Robbery Continues!
What gives… PNW/Gulf port new crop basis levels are still over $60/t OVER the MGE futures… so why is the CWB attempting to deduct $60/t off the futures price?
Why aren’t the CWB being sued for theft?
Because Canadians get all fussed and bothered about killing some socialist bureaucracy. Somehow they think government is more efficient than private enterprise. If you kill the CWB, then Winterpeg loses jobs. No right thinking politician wants to do that.
Because OBVIOUSLY Western farmers need to be protected from themselves. Come on, people are stupid and must be controlled! Everybody knows that.
CWB is just charging for services rendered. They’d just spend it all on beer and popcorn anyway, this is much better.
Not to mention the missing fifty billion dollar E.I. surplus.
There’s another comment of mine out there somewhere on this subject.
posted it somewhere?
my bad
The last best cash grab before the CWB’s sun sets. Then it’s off to Vegas to get rid of the evidence!
what people at Agriville are talking about now, and what’s urgent now, is the loss of personal id by the CCGA (Canadian Canola Growers Assn.) Information on over 32,000 producers has been stolen and we’re just finding out about it now! (happened 2 months ago). the word needs to get out that there has been a breach, and people need to start watching their bank statements, credit card statements, and contact credit bureaus for criminal activity! there has been no press releases on this, so it needs media attention now !
“Why aren’t the CWB being sued for theft?”
Because there’s no such thing as State theft.
while we are on about theft. –does anyone know what the Adscam balance is? is there anywhere other than at the auditor generals office that one can find how much the lieberals still owe?It should be paid back before they are allowed to run again.
Carl, can you get me a link for that?
others at Agriville are talking about it, i haven’t received my letter yet, but haven’t been to town
Reply posted Jun 5, 2008 8:05 Article in today’s Winnipeg Free Press
32,000 farmers’ data on stolen laptop
By: Lindsay Wiebe
Updated: June 4 at 10:37 PM CDT
It took more than two months for a federal government agency to alert 32,000 farmers, including 7,000 Manitobans, that their private information was in unknown hands after a laptop was stolen.
The news comes on the heels of an annual report released this week by Canada’s privacy commissioner, which blasted the private sector for failing to protect personal information.
Although the theft happened March 30, Canadians weren’t sent letters until last week informing them their social insurance numbers, bank account numbers and other data had been stored on a laptop stolen from the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA).
No details about the theft have been released by the association or by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the government department that used the private data for canola payment programs, and wrote the roughly 32,000 letters.
“If they’re devilish enough to steal a computer, maybe they’re devilish enough to do something with the information,” said Cindy Kellendonk, a Lac du Bonnet-area farmer who received a letter Tuesday stating that her private information was on the stolen laptop.
Kellendonk is furious it took two months to hear about the theft, and unhappy with the response she got from the agriculture department when she called with her concerns. “What frustrates me is that they’ve treated this like it’s no skin off their back,” she said.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada spokesman Sean Malone said the delay in contacting farmers was necessary while the department consulted with the privacy commissioner and the CCGA, and worked out logistics of sending the letters.
“The government takes any loss of personal information very seriously,” said Malone, adding the agency felt the risk of the information being misused was “relatively low.”
The laptop was password-protected and secured with biometric fingerprinting, said CCGA general manager Rick White, but the data was not encrypted. He said the organization is now encrypting computer data in light of the theft.
Pitblado LLP privacy lawyer Brian Bowman said the CCGA and agriculture department deserve credit for notifying people of the breach — a move not required by Manitoba law.
However, he said those affected should take measures to protect themselves. Situations can worsen in cases where thieves find more data by dumpster diving, he said, pointing to a case in Winnipeg in recent years where a crime ring compiled thousands of credit card statements for identity theft.
Federal privacy commissioner spokeswoman Anne-Marie Hayden said her office is aware of the incident and has received “a number of inquiries” from individuals.
Earlier this week, privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart tabled her annual report on whether companies are complying with Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
She found many companies are failing to implement “elementary security measures,” such as using encryption on laptops. As a result, these unprotected or stolen laptops, often containing customer information, remain a “huge issue” for the private sector.
for my mail since Monday
Don’t worry, this missing money will be used for stress bonuses for the staff.
The CWB has been ripping off farmers for years. Out of a $4,000 grain cheque, they took $1,500 of it as fees, etc. They have been charging farmers to clean their wheat, and turn around and sell the chaff as chicken feed with total profit going to them. They are in Monsanto’s pocket. How else do you explain the vast amounts of GMO crops?
f–k the people in this country are corrupt. is there an honest man anywhere in this country? i should say anywhere political in this country.
Crack open those books, Mr. Ritz – the guy from PEI and Ralph goodless will need new pants!
Don’t worry about your bank info, I heard on the radio that they are password protected. Dodged a bullet that time.(hopefully the thief doesn’t know the password, and just needed a laptop to play World of Warcraft on)
IH: “I heard on the radio that they are password protected”
That’s great if the thief attempts to log on to Windows, but on the other hand they could simply use a bootable linux CD, mount the hard drive, and access all the data…no real work required.
If it was a passworded excel document…well there’s tools out there to crack those quite easily.
The only way that they could’ve claimed “no big” was if the entire hard drive was encrypted.
Lets have a public inquiry into more than a billion dollars of lost NISA Program share of money due the western farmers. Explain the alleged concealing evidence, perjury and fabricating evidence in the Boyko judicial review and the corruption of the farmers legal representation in not filing all the evidence with the court and most importantly the required case law with the court and Crown’s council. How do omit filing the case law in the largest non-statute barred (as was the Indian Residential School cases based on attendance) proposed class action that should have been the first and largest case certified in Saskatchewan?
Farmers contact your MLA’s and MP’s insisting on a public inquiry over all the alleged wrongful conduct effecting possibly over 102,000 farmers in the west only.
Misleading a federal court should always be a serious issues!!!! This is your money!!! Demand it!!!
It looks as though the CWB is trying to shore up the pool and make it look like its soooo much better then those greedy, greedy daily spot prices. The CWB is still running under the assumption that farmers in general are just stupid, tractor driving, shit shoveling, country bumpkins that dun dropped outta school in grade 6 and dont know none rithmatic.
Sorry CWB, farmers happen to be good at math.