With the Canadian Wheat Board directors election here,some candidates are clearly communicating their position regarding the CWB, while others are not. It is important to know each candidate’s views and see they have the courage to publicly voice their convictions.
Candidates who use rhetoric such as “moving forward, new direction, momentum, etc.” without clearly stating what that direction is, are essentially proposing the open-market system and will be instrumental in the demise of the CWB.
After years of debate, it is clear to most voters there are only two choices in grain marketing: single desk or open market. It must be assumed that a candidate who does not openly disclose their stance is essentially trying to confuse the voter.
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Voting for the tight-lipped candidate could result in a detrimental change in the CWB mandate.
Some candidates have a history of wanting to eliminate the CWB’s single desk. History has demonstrated it is easy to connect the dots to the end result if the single desk mandate is destroyed.
Entities such as United Grain Growers and Agricore United had individuals who did not support the co-operative role. These entities … are now under one large Americancontrolled company.
The Australian Wheat Board is dwindling to nothing since it lost its single desk marketing advantage. Perhaps those who do not publicly support the single desk wish the same for the CWB.
If you don’t believe in the single-desk mandate, why would you propose yourself as director of the CWB, a single-desk marketing agency? …
The single-desk supporter is providing agricultural producers assurance and marketing-power simultaneously. Let’s pick five single desk supporters this time and send the non-supporters packing. Our board of directors could operate much more effectively.
Rob Cowan
Swan River, Man.
