A goverment monopoly staffed with federal bureaucrats isn’t the best way to market a commodity? How can that be?
A new study by one of the world’s top agronomics firms, Informa Economics, though, suggests the CWB isn’t so mighty after all. Commissioned by the Alberta government and released the same day as Mr. Hill’s announcement, it concluded the board succeeds no better than your average schmo when it comes to grain marketing. More damning, it calculates that growers would have gotten richer over the past several years from the open market, rather than being forced to sell to the board.
| Flashback – CWB “premium pricing” from the fall of ’07… |
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Related – The CWB opposes the proposed removal spending restrictions on third-party advertising during Canadian Wheat Board director elections. Oddly enough!
FIRE THEM ALL
It sickens me that the main opposition to eliminating the CWB is from the Liberals, NDP and the PQ. It’s similar to people living in the Tee Dot chastising farmers for pollution.
With friends like this, who needs enemies.
Not only that, but the main power base of those parties is in areas that are not even part of the CWB mandate. Just another way Ontario and Quebec keep the west in its place.
What tommyrot!!! Next they’ll tell us the Pope is Roman Catholic. The very idea!!!
If it is soooooooooooooooooooooo good for Prairie farmers, then it should be imposed on all Canadian farmers.
After all, equality is being treated the same, isn’t it ??
Rather than disbanding the wheat board why not push to privatize it? and give the farmers the option of staying with the wheat board or seeking other markets for their produce.
How can the NDP who supposedly champion the proletariat [in this case farmers] not want to overthrow the oppressive restrictive Wheat Board?
The Liberals, are all in favor of the Canadian Charter of Human rights except when it comes to Western farmers
It all seems a bit weird
it is very difficult to fight stupid when stupid is in charge.
expand the CWB to Le Belle province and they will all be howling like a dog tied to a hayrack.
Ian @ 12.38 pm
I think the Liberals have a bit of a problem with # 2.b of the charter of rights..
“freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication”
I sometimes wonder why this isn’t included in the letterhead of more blogs. (any blogs?)
GET THEM ALL OFF OF THE PUBLIC TIT!!! Freeloading farmers that is.
Wonder where/if manny works…
I’m living off of my trust fund, if you really must know.
Manny
I would gladly trade any and all direct to farmer subsidies for the elimination of the Wheat Board monopoly. In both cases we, as farmers, would be better off.