Measner Ready To Roll In The Dough?

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A well-connected tipster writes;

I received a tip from what I consider an excellent source this morning that Measner is also set to receive an extremely generous golden handshake from the Board that was part of his contract. He apparently had been told this by CWB director Ken Ritter previously in a conversation. Ritter was saying Measner wouldn’t care if he was fired by the gov’t because of the sweet deal. Perhaps there was method to his antagonistic approach to Strahl? This, like the bonuses, has nothing to do with Strahls ‘office and was arrived at when Measner got the position. I’ve been told it’s in the millions…

Unconfirmed, of course. If anyone out there has any inside info on this, send me a private email.
First response (that was fast!)

Unless something has changed from the CWB Board, last figure I knew of was his salary is roughly $300,000 / year and severance would be 2.5 times, roughly $750,000.
The President is appointed by the Governor in Council but remuneration is set by the Board of directors. CWB Act section 3.09 1 and 2 (b).

38 Replies to “Measner Ready To Roll In The Dough?”

  1. Unconfirmed, of course.
    So *of course* this piece of anonymous, third-hand, unconfirmed gossip belongs on your blog, just like the hoax e-mail about Layton.
    Such posts look right at home next to the frequent criticisms of the standards maintained by the mainstream media.

  2. I am sure he will demand that he is “ENTITLED TO HIS ENTITLEMENT” sound familiar……just think of the MINT…..

  3. I don’t have anything to add re the Measner story, but here’s a tip about the Australian Wheat Board that will be of interest to Kate’s readers.
    http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20965248-31037,00.html
    The AWB is, admittedly, taking baby steps towards a dual market, and the move has already riled a number of dual market supporters down under who felt that the government should have done more than approve 2 of 46 export permits.
    However, it is official: as of this afternoon, Canada is now the only nation on earth with a single desk wheat marketer (perhaps with the exception of Cuba or North Korea).
    Naturally, the MSM has not picked up on this story. After reading the Grope & Flail’s latest story, I don’t wonder why.

  4. Well, Stephen, perhaps you should refresh your browser more frequently. This isn’t the mainstream media. Blogs function in a completely different manner – with fact checking part of the ongoing process. What better way to expose a hoax or put the stop to a incorrect rumour than to publish it for all to see on a high traffic blog and see if it holds up to scrutiny and reader feedback?
    I find it surprising that someone who has been around the blogosphere as long as you have still hasn’t figured that out.
    BTW – for a comparison, go over to Macleans and check if the CP item has been updated yet, to disclose the political affiliations of “farmer” Daryl Knight.
    http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/politics/news/shownews.jsp?content=n122071A

  5. I don’t see the problem with posting something from a reliable source and soliciting confirmations. Seems to me to be an efficient way to either confirm or refute a rumour. How would you do it Stephen? Ignore it? That is the difference between blogs that have a readership and those that don’t. I assume yours would be a don’t.
    And the Layton post, who cares. The guy is an insignificant nothing leading an insignificants.

  6. Measner’s severence if as stated is not at all out of line for a senior exec in a billion $ business who’s served more than 20 years!
    The antipathy to the ideology or the OPs behind the board should have no bearing on his compensation.

  7. OMMAG:
    By that logic MP’s and the PM should be getting million-dollar salaries.
    Measner is a quasi-civil servant heading a monopoly crown corp. Profit/loss factors are distorted to say he least. Thus his 300,000 salary and 2.5 times severance are in line IF he is dismissed without cause. But he is being dismissed with cause (and plenty of it) and thus should receive zero severance.

  8. so BCL, do you think that measner should get severance even though he was running a campaign against the policies of his employer?

  9. C’mon Kate, you’re being mean-spirited with your “smears”!
    It never ceases to amaze me how some people will come to the defense of the swine gorging themselves at the taxpayer trough. Role models for the modern day liberal, I suppose.

  11. BCL was tossed from here a few months ago. I allowed his return on the provision that he didn’t use the privilage to insult the host. Only took three posts….

  12. “dismissed with cause” tells me he should get NOTHING!!!
    I know if I got fired for cause all I would get is a kick to the curb.

  14. isnt bcl the fool that threatened to have me beaten if I posted “support Isreal” stickers in downtown Vancouver?

  17. BCL:
    In response to your rhetoric-laden question, no, I do not. Several of the posters here offer well-reasoned and well-written arguments for their positions. I see the termination – with cause – of Mr. Measner as the proper act of a government under the circumstances.
    And I see the ending of the CWB monopoly as the fight for the restoration of basic right of a person to produce and sell their product how they see fit – not to go to jail for doing it.
    This is about freedom in the true Liberal sense of the word. Something I would expect a self-avowed liberal like yourself to support.

  18. If the price of being rid of Measner is only 750K it is a good deal!
    Don’t forget they just awarded 500K worth of crybaby bonuses to their staff.
    Also on that, the directors can not have a very high opinion of the resilience of their employess?
    I guess working for the Wheat board is not normally a stressful occupation.

  19. OMMAG you silly twit. The CWB is not a billion dollar a year industry. For this statement to be true Measner and his fellow cronies would actually be in the business of growing all the wheat and barley they market and be at risk for all the losses along the way. They market a billion dollars worth of grain but there is a huge difference in the risks associated with marketing and production (and a lot more expertise involved).

  20. Gord,
    Liberals don’t support democracy, freedom, liberty, property rights, honour and accountability anymore. You should know that from their collective behaviour. Regardless of continued use, ‘Liberal’ in its true, time-honoured sense doesn’t describe people like BCL. They’ve ‘progressed.’
    Now, Neo-fascist Liberal is an exact description.

  21. Not that I agree with it, but virtually EVER country in the world has some form of ‘single desk in grain’.
    The Europeans have CAP(Common Agricultural Policy).
    The Japanease have The Japanese Food agency.
    The Ausies, AWB.
    Argentina taxes, yes taxes, grain exports.
    Same with Brazil.
    USSR, East Block.. quagmire of controls.
    USofA has the USDA, the biggest bear in the market. Pays farmers to grow grain, pays them not to grow it, periodically demands export permits from the grain cos, ect.
    Govmits of the world, especially Europe, Japan, and the US, believe food production is too important to leave completely to the opened market. The USDA has a budget of $Billions, with a lot of that going to make up farmer revenue shotfalls in the so-called market.
    Does the CAP(Common Ag Policy) not spend close to $50Billion(US) annually to ‘top up’ the market ??
    I really wonder how Canadian Prairie Farmers can compete against those obsticles by play around in the ‘market’ with basis contracts, DDs, production contracts, calls, puts, ect.
    The day that Canada happeneds to completely sell out of any major grain, completely, nothing, not even half a million tonnes in the pipeline, is the day I will believe there is an opened market in something like Canola.
    No I do not believe in govmits ‘looking after’ our food needs exclusively. But they do. What better security would there be than turning farmers loose in the field. After all they grow the damned stuff, and do a mighty fine job of it.
    Careful what you ask for though, you may just loose or have already lost WGSF, NISA, GRIP, AIDA, CFIP, CAIS.

  22. Gee Kate …stephen(first comment) thinks that with the money you make on his taxes you should be more accurate and not misleading, ‘cuz you are accountable to stephen…oh wait…that would be the CBC that gets paid thru stephen’s taxes….
    blog on Kate…you sure aren’t the MSM…and I’m glad!

  23. B. H. A.:
    The US and EU don’t send poeple to jail for trying to sell their product. yes, they meddle in the market, but they do it giving money in order to assist producers by increasing sales or the price for their goods. The CWB does something entirely different in that it controls how the producer can sell his product. I know of no other non-communist country that does this and the only other similar market controls that carry the punishment of imprisonment if they are violated is the supply-management sector here in Canada.

  24. I have to get me a job with a Canadian crown corp or quasi government board and then get fired. Scam the mint and get your entitlement, use farmer’s money to hand out bonuses and get yourseverence package. I wonder how much the ex-RCMP boss will get?
    Pathetic…

  25. Through the CWB or “open market”, the problem is both sell into a World Market that often has it’s price depressed by half because of the ‘Big-Boys’, USDA, CAP ‘topping-up’ their own Farmer’s income. A shortfall that is there because of the same govmits export subsidies.
    For years and years the Americans were warning the Europeans to stop the export susidies on grain. They snubbed their noses.
    In 1986 Reagan said enough and hit back with EEP, Export Enhancement Program. The world grain trade has not been the same since.

  27. The CWB markets very little barley except for malt. This helps Canada malt in the East but is a disadvantage to farmers selling barley to Biggar malt who have to pay freight to Thunder Bay or Vancouver. The CWB hinders western processing of wheat and barley to protect eastern jobs. Even a farmer across the road from Biggar malt pays freight to the ports.
    What other industry pays the freight to the ports for their merchandise.
    Ussually the closer the customer to the source the lower the laid in cost of goods.
    Of course Quebec loves the board they don’t have the same restrictions.
    Mark Wartman should mabe consult with his farmer inlaws before preaching his ideology!!

  28. “Gord and I were having a debate here. He might have learned something.”
    Bwahahaaaaaaaaaa…”he might have learned something”…bwahahaaaaa…bigcitylib – best humorous blogger of the year…congrats.

  29. It would be interesting to know how many farmers, for or against the CWB, have a huge off farm income from their wives who are teaching (80,000/yr here, with 10 yrs exp) nursing, (over 50,000./yr, part time) or are themselves making off farm income as mechanics, welders, or in the oil fields in the winter. They may be in for a big shock if income splitting comes in and is for more than just seniors.

  30. In 1981 I went with my cousin in Norway to haul around 250 bushels to the our equivalent of the elevator, he took a cheque of 1695 dollars home that day, sure they are subsidized but that was 25 years ago. Yes the CWB has sure performed for us hasn’t it. Keep it in place you commies and only commie hutterites with their 50 slaves per colony that don’t pay health care, dont pay taxes and take cash dollars out of every small town every week selling their veges and ducks will own all the land soon then see where the price of food goes.

  31. Hey Stephen your “cutting” remarks have the depth of a 2 year old’s rant. Watch out or I will call you “poopy pants”. Now go play elsewhere this where before adults like Kate accidently hurt you ya little dweeb.

  32. Heres how it works with Government employees.I think I will retire early: but it depends how much severence pay I get. It has to be in the two year range so I can go back in a week or two as a consultant,then I don’t have to clear out my desk. So it does’t mater how you go the Golden Handshake is there. There is also the excessive stress way which is very good also.As you know government people are under a lot of stress just thinking about work or holidays they don’t take but do.

  36. “Two Canadian bakers were jailed for four months for flouting a state ceiling on bread prices aimed at reining in inflation and wiping out a blackmarket in scarce essentials…..” – Edmonton Journal, Dec 02 2006
    Oh sorry, that wasn’t Canada. That was Zimbabwe run by Trudeau’s old friend and tyrant Robert Mugabe. It is sooooo hard to tell a country nowadays without a lineup sheet.

  37. I am not positive but I think BNP Paribas is somehow hooked up with Power Corp. You know the group that controls Chretien, Martin, Mulroney,Rae and a pack of other lieberals.

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