Alex Binkley for the Ontario Farmer
Missing the Point in CWB Elections
Commentators rightly zeroed in on the 59% turnout in the October federal election as a disturbing sign for the health of Canadian democracy and suggested all sorts of changes.
So what does it say when only 52% of western farmers who were eligible to vote in the recent election for Canadian Wheat Board directors bothered to return the ballots mailed to them? The CWB should be concerned about the impact on its credibility when nearly half the eligible farmers don’t vote. Continue reading
Rolf Penner- Well, as the old saying goes, close only counts when it comes to horseshoes and hand grenades. We only lost by 124 votes but we lost just the same. 
Rolf “A vote for choice is not a vote against the CWB. It is a vote that acknowledges there is more than one way to successfully market barley and that no single way works best for everyone all the time. No two farmers are exactly alike and neither are their business requirements or marketing strategies.”
