WOW...here we go again.

Lets see, the head tax is gone, and repaid, the japanese got compensation, the native children have been paid, the hepatitis victims have been paid, so could farmers get paid back, with interest, what the cwb stole from them back in 1946-. Seems fair to me. We current and retired farmers need a good lawyer.

Why has the Canadian Wheat Board gone to such lengths to bury Malchy Grain Company Ltd. under the identity of a mining enterprise owned by a former CWB Commissioner?

I see no evidence that the CWB has done anything of the sort. The info on their site immediately leads to the discovery that the company in question is owned by Malchy. Furthermore, Eagle Sterling may be nothing more than a shell corp under which all of Malchy's other businesses are housed. Or it could be info.

It looks to me like you're doing nothing more than chasing your tail when you should simply be contacting the CWB to find out why they've listed Eagle Sterling rather than Malchy Grain.

Or it could be info.

That should be, "Or it could be old info."

Great smoking gun Kate. I suspect you just nailed one case of CWB insider pandering and sales skimming...people in the commodities trading game have remarked for years; "how does CWB get away with insider trades?". We have all known that the CWB insiders do a bit of profiteering on their own or in conjunction with selected traders...but this opens up the debate with some solid argument.

Being the sole source for prairie grain sales and price setting is a temptation too great to resist...skimming and insider trading have gone on for years. As always it's never the producer who enjoys the profits.

Why? you ask.

Well, if you can personally skim from multi-million dollar sales of wheat and barley to China, why on earth would you want to let such a good thing go?

Are you listening Maurice Strong?

Are you listening Borat Dion?

(Are you kidding?)

Let the Crimes, er, Games continue!

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/01/29/cwb-pay.html

"Strahl's directive stated that the agriculture minister has the right to appoint the president and set that person's compensation."

I am interested to know, and wonder why the media hasn't done the research to find out how Measner and his predecessors were hired and compensation for them was determined. I've a feeling the CWB board doesn't have the power they claim they have in this area.

A few auditors. Some net worth assessments of certain Canadian Wheat Board folk. Problem solved. Anyone know anyone at Revcan?

so where is the thing about no *appearance* of improprietry?

deeply buried along witht he rest of this.

this is really impressive investigative work. big congrats to whomever knew where to look and took the time. very significant. and thanks to you Kate for providing and maintaining the forum where we can now all see this evidence.

Robbie McLaLaLand, if the CWB monopoly is such a great thing I think ALL grain farmers in Canada should come under it's wing. What's that I hear!!Is that a Trudeau salute from all the farmers who aren't now under it's wing. Or it could be Robbie pulling his head out of his ass. No, must be the Ontario farmers with their fingers.

Since I don't know how long Mr. Machej has been associated with Malchy Grain (the founder William B. Malchy is deceased, and it looks to be some years ago), there's no way to know whether he was involved in grain exports prior to his 2 year prohibition.

We do know that former Richard Klassen was, however. He was at the Sask Wheat Pool 12 months later.

Robert's comments notwithstanding, it's hard to explain why the information is listed at the CWB in the way it is - it's rather odd that the only information in common between the CWB and Ag Canada sites is a fax number.

It is long past time for the CWB to be audited by this government. How can this board get by all these years without having to have an audit. Oh right it has been Lieberals controlling the government.

time to send in Sheiler, the auditor general.

and Borat Dion can repledge his unfailing support to this "western Canadian" institution.

Now, why would Cretin have blocked the AG from the CWB, VIA Rail, Canada Post and the, so called, Private Foundations(NINE BILLION DOLLARS)?
Why would have Smaul Fartin' continued to do so?
Lie-beral's criminally organized?

Auditor Generals report Feb 27, 2002. Does every department get a full audit every 4 years?? Who knows, maybe it is time to do it again.... But people like Bruce and eliza don't actually want any information anyway, they just want to complain they don't have it.

http://www.cwb.ca/public/en/library/publications/popups/pdf/oagaudit_e.pdf

Why has the Canadian Wheat Board gone to such lengths to bury Malchy Grain Company Ltd. under the identity of a mining enterprise owned by a former CWB Commissioner?

After the whole Hussein/Non destroyed mosques story bellyflop I think I'll reserve judgement.

Yes,Robert McLelland,campaign to get ALL of the growers of wheat in Canada under the CWB umbrella.Do that and you may have some credibility.Put Ontario corn under their control also so that they can be saved from the private grain traders.

Nice try "Barcs up the wrong tree". The AG has not had the opportunity to do a complete and thorough audit at the CWB. Now where did that NINE BILLION go?

There was no "bellyflop" on the burning Sunnis/destroyed mosques story, unless you count the Associated Press rewrites and the fact that the "6 Sunnis Burned Alive" that raced around the world has never been corroberated by any other source - (and was doubted by the Bagdad bureau's NYT correspondant at the time.)

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006728.htm

Now, stay on topic.

...I'm truly amazed how this country still functions.

Seeing that fish rot from the head down, one has to wonder how far the rot has infected all levels of government.

Yes,Robert McLelland,campaign to get ALL of the growers of wheat in Canada under the CWB umbrella.Do that and you may have some credibility.

There are barely any wheat growers in the rest of Canada outside of the prairie provinces and they're spread out along an area that's 2,000 miles long. Advocating that this small group of wheat growers who are spread out across such a long distance be included would only raise the overhead costs of the CWB. So how would that give me credibility?

When we talk about a "choice" market with an optional CWB, the CWB says they won't survive relying on their "competition" (the grain companies) to handle their grain.

But when it comes to ex-commissioners not working "in the grain trade in a competitive position with the CWB for two years", apparently SWP is not considered competition.

Barcs:
"Auditor Generals report Feb 27, 2002. Does every department get a full audit every 4 years??"

The audit of the CWB was considered a "special audit" by the OAG. The CWB got its way and the OAG was only allowed to do a watered down "operational audit" looking only at governance and operations - basically are you doing what you are supposed to be, not at all a "full audit".

Moonbat: "they're spread out along an area that's 2,000 miles long"

I have relatives that farm in Keg River, AB (get your atlas out for this one, kiddies) That's a LONG way from the CWB offices. Not to mention the ports in Vancouver and Thunder Bay.

Perhaps we should force the dairy farmers of Ontario and Quebec to market their milk through a Fort St. John based monopoly office.

Better yet, let's have Bombardier market their aircraft and snowmobiles through an agency in Yorton, Saskatchewan.

It gives you credibility Robert because you advocate that your system of government is a panacea for what ails the world. Isnt inclusiveness a hallmark of your rants.

I cant understand how a man faced with overwhelming evidence on the corruption the pure desire to put the individual before the hive can still follow blindly those who lead his crusade.

How many corrupt individuals have to paraded out before it gives you pause Robert.

Your sentiments and desires maybe pure maybe you really want peace on earth and goodwill to all men but I frankly dont see it. I just see a guy grinding away to get his turn at the trough.

Often what you say is so out of touch with reality. Your an intelligent guy unfortunately misdirected. With emotions you cant control leading you into more trouble and discrediting anyting you say.

Keg River?

why that is some of the finest zuchinni Ive ever bought from a road side stand. A long straight stretch of "tree tunnel" there.

cal2-I concure abut the tree tunnel of highway 2! This and the fact the mosquitos and horseflies are as big as moose up there!

Just a couple of observations: In the first screen shot the Telephone # (1-514-482-2601) for Eagle Sterling is a Montreal number, but its fax number is a Winnipeg number. So, what kind of a company has its main phone number in one city and its fax number in another? Not a very good way to conduct a business if you ask me.

With my curiosity piqued, I did a little research and was able to turn some interesting things.

A Canada411 Yellow Pages address search for 975-167 Lombard Ave indicates that another company also occupies 975-167 Lombard - Mercantile Consulting Venture (MCV). MCV also shares the same fax number as Eagle Sterling Co. and Malchy Grain Co. Some internet searching shows that Mercantile Consulting Venture (MCV) is an agribusiness consulting firm run by a Marlene Boersch and Tony Temple who provide consultations on pulse crops (beans, peas and lentils).

A Google search had a lot of hits for Ms. Marlene Boersch as a consultant for pulse crops and nothing that I can see that links her with either Eagle Sterling and Malchy Co. (except for sharing the same office and fax number!).

So, instead of two companies sharing the same address, we have three! 167 Lombard Ave is the address for The Grain Exchange Building that is located just off the intersection of Portage and Main. According a list of building tenets, only Malchy Grain occupies suite 975.

Another search indicates that a William B. Malchy was originally founder and president of
Malchy Grain.

Now, I'm not a business expert, so I don't if something smells at 975-167 Lombard Ave. So it’s possible that these are nothing more than a bunch of coincidences, but it does seem strange that three different businesses occupy the same office and use the same fax number. So, I leave you with these few gems and may be someone else can provide further information.

LJ: sharing a fax number is not uncommon amongst groups of small businesses sharing office space. My own firm has this arrangement in the "incubator" office building we're in. The business that runs the office building pays for the fax line and a common reception area, which all the clients can use.

Whether that explains this particular situation, I don't know, but sharing a fax number is not by itself evidence of anything improper.

I don't think addresses are important; nor fax numbers or numbered companies.

Three questions that need attention and Kate covered some of these:

1) Was there an attempt to hide what a former Commissioner was doing? If so, why?

2) How much farmer's grain has been sold through this company, to where and why?

3) What does this accredited exporter bring to the table - he has no grain handling assets, no international trading offices to save the CWB travelling expenses. What is it?

Good questions, Larry. Questions that MUST be asked, I think that Mr. David Anderson is just the man to get that job done. I think you should sent your questions to him.

Mary M. I am in full agreement with you. Every cent the CWB stole from the western farmers should be repaid-with compound interest. It would be discriminatory not to do so. If the farmer has died the money should be handed over to his estate.

The communist party of Canda endorses the Canada Wheat Board, too.

*I thought I forgot something...

http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2007/D37011.htm

Re-"Every cent the CWB stole from the western farmers should be repaid-with compound interest."

The Merchant Law Firm already has a class action against the CWB because they illegally take money out of the prairie pool accounts. Part IV was put into the Act in 1947 as an export/import tax throughout all Canada with the tax proceeds for the government and the government to pay for the taxing costs.

Ever since NAFTA, there is no tax money going into Part IV so all expernses of Part IV should be paid by the government. Merchant is trying to recover this money for prairie farmers.

Since it is a considerable part of the $60 some million the CWB pay themselves each year, it will add up. But it is only token amount of what this CWB beast has cost us over the years.

Socialists, your insistance that your neighbor can not get a higher price than you, has cost us all unbelievable amounts.

Ian.

"Sharing a fax number is not uncommon amongst groups of small businesses sharing office space."

True, however, from searching the internet I got the impression that Malchy Grain Co. was not a small company. Big enough to establish a friendship fund worth $6,125.00 at the University of Manitoba. Also, it appears that it has a subsidiary in Switzerland, which is not suspicious, but indicates that it’s not a small company. I'm sure that a company like this would have confidential faxes coming through; so would you allow other people to see faxes that are linked to your business deals?

Again, there may be nothing to it and like you say and may be nothing more than an innocent coincidence. For instance, the Montreal number may be a VOIP number and they have used a Montreal number because they do a lot of business in the Montreal area (which actually makes sense) and they are trying to save money on the phone bill.

A Cull of CWB may be in order.

Something must be bothering somebody. Out of nowhere comes the announcement on our local 6:00pm news that the CWB will increase its sales much above expectations. Of course getting said grain to port is difficult due to avalanches ect in the rockies. Prices are supposed to be above average. China was mentioned as a destination. There is Strong again.