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You obviously have no concept of signals and incentives.Even governmment bureaucrats send memos. Why? Because they seek a better (cheaper) way. Going to a hospital and having them do a credit check before they check your pulse, isn't a better way.

Do it cheaper? How can a profit driven system be cheaper?

There is nothing stopping the biofuel plants from buying from the CWB right now. Except the fact the biofuel companies don't want to pay high prices for grain, they want the cheapest grain they can find. If its ethanol, they will probably import U.S. corn, or maybe use Canadian Wheat, which ever is cheapest at the time. They aren't going to pay more than they have to.

The people in rural communities have always voted for conservatives. Harper thinks that because this time, while campaigning to end the CWB, he wouldn't have won these seats if the farmers supported the CWB. The people in the rural communities didn't vote about the CWB they voted about gay marriage or gun control or some other non issue like that. Why urban people should care: Well Harper has shown that he doesn't care what people think, he only cares what his idealogy tells him. So what's next on Harper's Hit List: Supply Management for Dairy Products, etc.; The CBC; Health Care. When he is done it will be a carbon copy of the U.S. What a bunch of Bullshit. The FARMERS voted and they VOTED to make participation in the Wheat Board voluntary. Suck it up. Democracy has spoken. Take your far left wing ideaological bullshit elsewhere or else stick to the facts. You have shown your resistance to this to be for partisan reasons only so far. How do you suppose a voluntary Wheat Board will work? The same as a voluntary traffic light, I suppose. You either have the Wheat Board or you don't. Simple as that. Harper is just spinning the Voluntary CWB nonsense because that option is popular with farmers, but not achievable. How so? So it is your position is that the wheat board will only work if Farmers are threatened with Jail if they do't use it? Are you serious? And you think that not only that is correct but it is also a good reason to keep it going? My god.. I don't know, buying groups seem to work very well in every other industry? Ever heard of a teeny tiny little company called Borg warner? How is it that you suppose a relative neophite as far as farming goes can come on here and tear your whole premise to pieces? You seem to be affiliated with the Wheet board in some capacity? If it is of such worth and you are in favour of ruling against the majority on this then surely to god it's not too much to expect that you can back up your baseless crap with something substantive? Because so far it just looks like you are afraid that you are going to lose your cushy little job my friend and that, I couldn't give two little shits about. The Farmers were throw in Jail because they stole their trucks back from Canada Customs, and didn't pay the resulting fine, they were given over a year to pay, but chose to get publicity for their cause. Following your logic, it makes it prefectly ethical for Brian Mulroney to be on the Board of Directors of ADM, while at the same time being a political advisor to Stephen Harper. ADM stands to benefit the most from the destruction of the CWB. And yet you accuse me of being affiliated with the CWB. The majority of farmers support the CWB single-desk, but if you muddy the waters and give a false option of 'marketing choice.' then that would get support, but it can't be achieved unless some how the CWB gets an export terminal, and grain elevators. Even if the CWB did have an export terminal and elevators that wouldn't guarantee that it would be able to survive, let alone get premiums for farmers. Without the CWB single-desk, the CWB would have to rely on its competitors to handle and ship its grain. Many independent studies have shown that the CWB gets premiums higher than in the open market.

The people in rural communities have always voted for conservatives. Harper thinks that because this time, while campaigning to end the CWB, he wouldn't have won these seats if the farmers supported the CWB. The people in the rural communities didn't vote about the CWB they voted about gay marriage or gun control or some other non issue like that. Why urban people should care: Well Harper has shown that he doesn't care what people think, he only cares what his idealogy tells him. So what's next on Harper's Hit List: Supply Management for Dairy Products, etc.; The CBC; Health Care. When he is done it will be a carbon copy of the U.S. What a bunch of Bullshit. The FARMERS voted and they VOTED to make participation in the Wheat Board voluntary. Suck it up. Democracy has spoken. Take your far left wing ideaological bullshit elsewhere or else stick to the facts. You have shown your resistance to this to be for partisan reasons only so far. How do you suppose a voluntary Wheat Board will work? The same as a voluntary traffic light, I suppose. You either have the Wheat Board or you don't. Simple as that. Harper is just spinning the Voluntary CWB nonsense because that option is popular with farmers, but not achievable.

The people in rural communities have always voted for conservatives. Harper thinks that because this time, while campaigning to end the CWB, he wouldn't have won these seats if the farmers supported the CWB. The people in the rural communities didn't vote about the CWB they voted about gay marriage or gun control or some other non issue like that. Why urban people should care: Well Harper has shown that he doesn't care what people think, he only cares what his idealogy tells him. So what's next on Harper's Hit List: Supply Management for Dairy Products, etc.; The CBC; Health Care. When he is done it will be a carbon copy of the U.S.

Hello, I just want to say a few things about the Canadian Wheat Board, or as many of us call it the 'CWB.' First of all, the CWB doesn't throw farmers in jail for not using the CWB to market their grain. That group of farmers that were jailed went over the boarder without an export permit. So Canada Customs confiscated there trucks. They then proceeded to steal their trucks back from Customs. Surprisingly, the only punishment was a fine. They chose to not pay the fine and chose jail time for publicity reasons. This would be the equivalent of getting pulled over for speeding, and starting a fist fight with the police and then claiming 'police-brutality.' Secondly, without the CWB, farmers' will be at the mercy of the multinational grain companies that have no interest in helping farmers—all they care about is there own shareholders and profits. Many of you are probably saying, "Well Harper and his government are only trying to give farmers choice on how they market their grain." Many people believe that the CWB could exist in this 'choice' environment. The falsehood here would be that this 'choice' environment would not include the CWB, as the CWB could not exist. Turing the CWB into just another grain company with no export terminals and no elevators doesn't make any sense. The CWB would have to rely on it's competitors to handle and ship its grain. How exactly would that work? The people promoting the destruction of the CWB are the same people that have failed farmers many many times in the past. They promoted the elimination of the crow rate (worth around $800 million per year for farmers). Gave plant breeders' rights to corporations and now corporations can sue you for growing your own grain. If the conservatives are so upbeat on property rights, why aren't they giving the farmers the right to grow their own grain? For more information please visit http://www.savemycwb.ca