A number of friends and I attended what was advertised as a “CWB Information Meeting.” Nothing could have been further from the truth. It should have been advertised as a “National Farmers Union Love In.”
Every left wing wacko from Camrose, Alta., to Carman, Man., was there. They bussed them in. Grandmas and Grandpas with their “Save the CWB” signs parading up and down Albert Street in Regina in front of the Travelodge Hotel.
(Liberal MP Ralph) Goodale was there, along with the Saskatchewan NDP and a group of unknowns selling teddy bears.
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The gathering paid homage to the half dozen CWB board of directors. Ward Weisensel (CWB chief operating officer) went on to preach to the disciples about the huge advantage of the CWB, then director (Rod) Flaman confessed his sins of being a member of the Farmers for Justice and how he ran grain into the United States and how ignorant he was about the secret work of the CWB and when he became a CWB director he saw his evil ways, begged forgiveness and joined the rest of the disciples.
Question and answer period was a gong show. The parade of socialists, all telling tales of hell and damnation that will come upon the earth on Aug. 1, 2012.
When the “outstanding young farmer for 2011” from Edgeley, Sask., came to the microphone, he uttered the words, “value added” and he was met with cat calls, verbal abuse and was shouted off the microphone. The moderator of the meeting did nothing to stop this fiasco.
Closing remarks by chairman (Allen) Oberg was as expected, with him saying, “We will spend millions of dollars of farmers’ money to fight this to the death and above all maintain the status quo.”
If any federal MPs listen to this bunch of radical socialists, they need to get their heads examined. The socialists miss the whole point. It is not about marketing, philosophy or party politics. It is about freedom… freedom to market our wheat and barley…. What we have waiting to be able to do for decades…finally we have a prime minister that will get this done for us.
Herb Axten,Minton, Sask.
