Rolf Penner- I’m getting all sorts of reports this morning about Bill Toews signs that have yet to receive the duct tape treatment. It’s now been three days since he was told to fix this and the jobs still not done. Is there a shortage of duct tape or is he deliberately dragging his heels on this?
And not a peep out of the CWB on this. If we don’t hear from them we’re going to have to assume that they’re officially endorsing Bill Toews. Why not send them an email or give them a call asking them just that. ”Why are you endorsing Bill Toews?”
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The time to change the CWB from a compulsory, bureaucratic, cost ineffective agency of the federal government to a voluntary marketing organization is long past. There is no hard evidence that the CWB generates their claimed premium pries for prairie farmers, and lots of evidence that the organization in its present form costs prairie farmers and the prairie region lost revenue and income. Putting in place a market and marketing oriented board of directors is an important step toward accomplishing needed change in wheat and barley marketing on the prairies.
“One of the key claims made in support of a single-desk selling structure is based on the ability to exert market power within a given marketplace.
According to the June 
Rolf Penner-Like all things with the CWB, director elections are not like normal elections, they are more like a leadership race within a political party. To win you need 50% plus one of the votes, it’s called a preferential ballot system. You rank or
Producers who delivered wheat or barley to the CWB during the 2007-08 or 2008-09 crop years will be automatically included on the voters’ list. Those producers who need to establish their eligibility to vote are required to complete an 
Since oats were taken out of the CWB in 1989, Canada has gone from having almost no oat exports to being the largest oat exporter in the world. Oats processing has grown 300 per cent and marketing costs have dropped by about one-third.
