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Cdn Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA) Fights On . . .

Postby Oscar » Fri Mar 14, 2014 5:21 pm

Public meeting in the heart of grain country sends message to Ottawa

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NEWS RELEASE March 10, 2014

RAYMORE, SK - The Canadian Wheat Board Alliance hosted a large meeting of prairie grain farmers yesterday in Raymore, Saskatchewan. By an almost unanimous vote the meeting passed a motion demanding the Federal Minister of Agriculture immediately conduct a vote on the restoration of the farmer-controlled single desk Wheat Board.

Long time Saskatchewan MP Ralph Goodale addressed the meeting and observed that the prairie price of all grains had declined by almost fifty percent and this amounted to an estimated loss of five billion dollars to the western farm economy. One audience member angrily pointed out “we can’t afford another year of this!”

Stewart Wells, a former farmer-elected Director on the Wheat Board, explained to the meeting that with the single desk farmers got 85% of the port price for grain while the latest information shows that although international grain prices remain high, the grain companies and railways have reduced western farmers’ share to less than 40%.

Kyle Korneychuk, spokesperson for the CWBA, said, “farmers have now seen in their bank accounts and grain bins how the Ritz system of grain marketing works. I think that is the reason they gave such a firm message to Ottawa and the Opposition politicians attending the meeting that they want to exercise their right to vote on the marketing system they have to live with.”

Liberal Ralph Goodale, along with the NDP Official Opposition’s Agriculture and deputy Agriculture Critics Malcolm Allen and Ruth Ellen Brosseau got the message loud and clear during the meeting that farmers wanted a vote now.

“Local MP Andrew Scheer did not respond to our invitation, however both Goodale and Allen promised to take the message that farmers want a vote on the single desk back to Ottawa” said Korneychuk.

Allen observed that “more and more farmers are coming to see the private grain trade as the problem and the single desk as the solution and they want a vote now. We will do our job and take that message back to Ottawa.”

Korneychuk went on to say “I was pleased to see Ms. Brosseau, who hails from rural Quebec, taking such an interest in western problems. She clearly indicated to me that she understood that the single desk wheat Board was as important to western Canada as supply management is to Ontario and Quebec dairy farmers.”

Korneychuk observed that the meeting was sending a clear message to Ottawa. “If Ottawa can step in and seize the assets we built up in the farmer-controlled Wheat Board without compensation and issue orders to the railways with threats of draconian fines to back them up, as they did on Friday, there is no reason they cannot honour a democratic vote by farmers to re-instate their farmer-controlled single desk Wheat Board. Farmers want a fair vote,” Korneychuk concluded. - 30 -

For further information call:

Kyle Korneychuk at (306) 537-0950

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Raymore Resolution:

- Whereas the pre-2011 Canadian Wheat Board played a key role in coordinating grain shipments, and

- Whereas the single desk selling advantages of the pre-2011 CWB returned 85% of sales values to farmers' pockets, as opposed to the 40 to 50% returned from the private trade at present,

Be it resolved that this meeting go on record asking the federal government to immediately conduct a vote of farmers regarding single desk selling of western wheat and barley.

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Who We Are: The Alliance is a politically non-partisan organization focused specifically on the Canadian Wheat Board. Members of the Alliance recognize the advantages the Board brought to producers through the single desk and price pooling, quality assurance through the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC), as well as the important role the CWB played as an advocate for farmers in transportation, producer cars, and on the world stage in trade disputes and negotiations. The Alliance draws memberships throughout the west.
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Cdn Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA) Fights On . . .

Postby Oscar » Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:10 am

Ottawa has farm groups chasing their own tails with transportation consultations

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NEWS RELEASE Canadian Wheat Board Alliance http://www.cwbafacts.ca October 14, 2014

(Pelly, Saskatchewan) Ottawa’s latest consultation on grain transportation appears to have farm groups chasing their own tails while ignoring the real culprits in the grain marketing debacle observed Kyle Korneychuk spokesperson for the non-partisan Canadian Wheat Board Alliance.

Instead of recognizing the conflict of interest built into the system which allows inland terminal companies to also own port terminals, and in some cases grain ships, Ottawa has diverted the attention of many farm groups into wasting their time participating in a Canadian Transportation Agency consultation asking for input on what advice to give to the Minister of Transportation on the “minimum [grain] volumes the railways should move.”

“Our analysis, which was supported by other independent analysts at the University of Saskatchewan Grain Summit earlier this year shows that the grain companies are responsible for the grain marketing catastrophe that was a result of ending the farmer-controlled Canadian Wheat Board.”

Even in times of bumper crops the farmer-controlled Canadian Wheat Board never had to pay significant demurrage because ships were waiting to get a load of grain.

“Meanwhile” observed Korneychuk “the opposition is playing ‘gotcha’ politics over whether the rail fines are daily or weekly. Farmers already know Minister Ritz’s word is worth nothing since he promised us a vote on killing the Wheat Board before the last election and then went back on his word.”

Korneychuk questioned the idea of forcing the railways to move an arbitrary tonnage of grain. “This does not help farmers” he explained “the elevator companies control what happens, and dictates from Ottawa to the railways do not change the fact the grain companies have made record profits because of their new position as middlemen between farmers and the international grain market – a fact even the private sector supporters of the FNA proposal to assume control of Ritz’s crippled wheat board acknowledge.”

Korneychuk said there is a need to recognize that killing the single-desk Canadian Wheat Board has allowed the private grain companies to insert themselves as middlemen between farmers and their former customers. “With the single-desk farmers got better than 90% of the world grain price by using their single-desk marketing agency and it did an exceptional job of managing the logistics of a constrained rail and grain handling system in an efficient and equitable way.”

“With the single-desk farmers had the market power to not only extract the best prices but they also balanced off the natural monopolies in grain handling and transportation” Korneychuk concluded, “and it benefited western grain producers for 79 years by allowing them to retain the beneficial ownership of their grain, sell directly to end-use customers, and manage delivery logistics. The multi-billion dollar grain robbery perpetrated by the grain companies last crop year demonstrates that Minister Ritz’s promises of competition in the grain industry benefitting farmers were simple-minded delusions.” - 30 –

For further information call:

Kyle Korneychuk at (306) 537-0950


Who We Are: The Alliance is a politically non-partisan organization focused specifically on the Canadian Wheat Board. Members of the Alliance recognize the advantages the Board brought to producers through the single desk and price pooling, quality assurance through the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC), as well as the important role the CWB played as an advocate for farmers in transportation, producer cars, and on the world stage in trade disputes and negotiations. The Alliance draws memberships throughout the west.
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Re: Cdn Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA) Fights On . . .

Postby Oscar » Fri Nov 07, 2014 10:11 am

Farmers to move forward with Wheat Board case

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(Swift Current, Saskatchewan, November 4, 2014)

The farmers in the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) class action are pleased the courts have given the green light to proceed with parts of the case based on the misallocation of CWB Pool account funds in 2011/12. However, the farmers have chosen to seek leave to appeal this limited decision to the Supreme Court of Canada since the ruling does not properly address the fundamental injustice of Ottawa seizing and disposing of other valuable CWB assets paid for by farmers.

Stewart Wells, chairperson of the FCWB, said “most farmers understand their CWB assets have been stolen from them by Ottawa. The startling revelation from a private banker that the intention of the Federal government is to effectively gift the CWB assets to a private company at no charge has further galvanized the farm community to lay claim to all the Wheat Board assets farmers bought and paid for, not just the cash remaining in the Pool account.”

Wells concluded by saying “I’m glad the plaintiffs have elected to give the Supreme Court an opportunity to address the glaring inconsistency in lower court rulings that farmers have a right to pool account monies yet do not have a right to the property bought and paid for with those pool account monies.” -30-


For further information call:

Stewart Wells: (306) 773-6852
Anders Bruun: (204) 416-3562

Farmer Plaintiffs:

Harold Bell: Fort St. John, British Columbia
Andrew Dennis: Brookdale, Manitoba
Nathan Macklin: DeBolt, Alberta
Ian McCreary: Bladworth, Saskatchewan

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Re: Cdn Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA) Fights On . . .

Postby Oscar » Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:00 pm

Cereals Canada resorts to personal attacks

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Canadian Wheat Board Alliance [ http://www.cwbafacts.ca ]

February 10, 2015 NEWS RELEASE

(Pelly, Sk., February 10, 2015) Kyle Korneychuk, spokesperson for the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA), an independent prairie-wide farm group released the following commentary on the personal attack generated by a January CWBA news release titled “Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Raises Concerns:”

Last month the CWBA issued a news release pointing out that Cereals Canada was made up primarily of big grain and agro-chemical companies whose interests were not the same as farmers and this raised concerns about conflicts of interest between farmers’ profits and those of private grain and agro-chemical companies. We expected some counter argument but did not expect Cereals Canada’s appointed President to respond with an intemperate and personal attack.

The point the CWBA made is that big grain and agro-chemical companies have their own agendas. Those companies do not make billions of dollars of annual profits by leaving money on the table for western farmers, no matter how often farmers are patted on the back and told we are all part of a value chain. As the Manitoba Cooperator’s February 9th Editorial pointed out, these different priorities between farmers and agri-business are not affected by whether there are three farmers from western Canada sitting on the Cereals Canada board, or five as there were a couple of weeks later.

In fact Cereals Canada is a very expensive talking shop to join. We have heard reports that a seat can cost upwards of one-hundred thousand dollars a year. That is a lot of farmers’ money to join an organization that has zero power to enforce farmers’ interests. Cereals Canada has mostly called for farmers to give up more money to supply the agro-chemical companies with research funds or for farmers to give up the genetics we have already paid to develop. There is little value in any of this for farmers. We can do better by using the farmers’ money needed to join Cereals Canada to work on our own research and development that will directly benefit farmers.

In spite of the clichés by Cereals Canada’s Chairperson about every group at that table being “partners” there is no equality among those so-called partners. Most farmers, having seen their grain cheques cut in half this year and who must pay for expensive privately developed seed understand that we have no common interests with these private companies who exist to make as much money as they can from farmers. If Cereals Canada can convince a few farmers that this is also in their interests, so be it. But let’s not pretend things like Cereals Canada will put a single extra penny into western grain farmers’ pockets. The shareholders of private companies have no interest in that, and why should they, now that Ottawa has allowed them to insert themselves between farmers and our former customers?

The colourful insults from Cereals Canada’s appointed President should not divert farmers or the media from these facts. - 30 –


For further information call:


Kyle Korneychuk at (306) 537-0950


Who We Are: The Alliance is a politically non-partisan organization focused specifically on the Canadian Wheat Board. Members of the Alliance recognize the advantages the Board brought to producers through the single desk and price pooling, quality assurance through the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC), as well as the important role the CWB played as an advocate for farmers in transportation, producer cars, and on the world stage in trade disputes and negotiations. The Alliance draws memberships throughout the west.
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Re: Cdn Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA) Fights On . . .

Postby Oscar » Fri Apr 10, 2015 5:42 pm

Farmers Disappointed by Supreme Court Refusal to Hear Case

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Canadian Wheat Board Alliance - A coalition of farmers and other Canadians in support of democracy and a farmer-controlled CWB


April 9, 2015

(Swift Current, Saskatchewan, April 9, 2015) The Supreme Court of Canada has decided not to hear the appeal filed by farmers concerning a Class Action lawsuit stemming from the Harper Government’s dismantling of the single-desk Canadian Wheat Board.

The legal action was started to hold the Harper government accountable for its decision to unilaterally end the CWB’s marketing advantages and seize the farmer-paid assets, and the farmer-plaintiffs have expressed disappointment in the court’s decision. Stewart Wells, spokesperson for the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) commented “Since 2006, the legal efforts of the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board have resulted in over 631 million dollars in extra returns to farmers. However, we are naturally disappointed that Canada’s legal system has been unable to fully hold the Federal government accountable for the confiscation and destruction of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) in 2011. The legal system has quite simply not been able to afford justice to western Canadian farmers so far.”

Wells explained that this part of the Class Action was uniquely important not only to western grain farmers but also to the interests of Canadian society and business in general and it deserved the consideration of the Supreme Court of Canada. “Unfortunately,” Wells said, “we have a double standard now condoned by the Supreme Court of Canada - workers and their unions have a right to collective bargaining and to enjoy the benefits that flow from that, but farmers have no right to keep the results of their own efforts at collective bargaining and the collective ownership of real property which the single-desk Canadian Wheat Board represented.”

Wells went on to observe, “The changes made to grain marketing by the Conservative government have resulted in the largest transfer of money away from farmers in the history of Canada. Over the past three years farmer losses from the federal government decision have exceeded the expectations of even strong board supporters.”

In 2013/14 losses to farmers were estimated at 4 to 5 billion dollars due to the government’s highly dysfunctional marketing system. In 2014-15 alone, the spread between port prices and farm gate prices increased causing losses estimated at 3 billion dollars. Those price spreads have not returned to competitive levels so farmer losses continue to mount.

“With the single-desk Wheat Board farmers retained the beneficial ownership of their grain from the farm gate to the end-use customer and the Board was able to add value at each step of the way and then return that extra money to farmers. The quality and price discrimination advantage which was estimated at three quarters of a billion dollars annually was also likely significantly underestimated as customers are now complaining about Canadian quality and Canadian grain is reported to be lowest price on some international tenders. The dozens of grain ships waiting in Vancouver are only the most visible symptom of this mess. We have to recognize that Canada’s position in the international grain trade has now been severely damaged by Ottawa’s ideologically-based exercise in grain marketing and quality control” added Wells.

To add insult to injury, the Wheat Board assets, which were paid for by farmers and seized by the Conservative government, may be given away to private interests as the government moves to dispossess farmers of the last elements of the organization which benefitted prairie farmers for almost a century.

“However,” Wells concluded, “the Courts have given farmers a green light to proceed with the parts of the class action case based on the misallocation of CWB Pool account funds in 2011/12 and we will be turning our attention to those details in the coming weeks.” -30-

For further information call:

Stewart Wells: (306) 773-6852
Anders Bruun: (204) 416-3562

Farmer Plaintiffs:

Harold Bell: Fort St. John, British Columbia
Andrew Dennis: Brookdale, Manitoba
Nathan Macklin: DeBolt, Alberta
Ian McCreary: Bladworth, Saskatchewan


Background notes

[ http://www.cwbafacts.ca/constitutional-and-classaction/ ]

The farmer-plaintiffs in this case were Andrew Dennis (Manitoba), Ian McCeary (Saskatchewan), Nathan Macklin (Alberta), and Harold Bell (British Columbia). They represented the majority western farmers, which supported the single desk marketing advantages of the CWB. Those same farmers predicted the declining share of export grain sales and other problems which have cost farmers billions of dollars since 2011. The following facts are not in dispute:

1. Since 2011, some Canadian grain prices have actually undercut world prices—“Canadian wheat lowest in Iraq tender”—Manitoba Cooperator, November 3, 2014.
[ http://www.agcanada.com/daily/canadian- ... nder-trade ]

2. The Canadian government has refused to divulge voluntary CWB handlings putting the lie to the “strong and viable” rhetoric—“Show us the audited statement Mr. Ritz!”—The Western Producer November 12, 2014.
[ http://www.producer.com/2014/11/letters ... r-13-2014/ ]

3. Canada’s reputation has been suffering --“High standards suffering—A foreign grain buyer lists problems with underweight shipments, uneven protein”—The Western Producer Nov. 6, 2014”
[ http://www.producer.com/2014/11/canadas ... uestioned/ ]

4. Government has to direct rail traffic—Conservative government directs grain logistics by Order-in-Council
[ http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1318933 ... ern-canada ]

5. Farmers losing billions—“World prices have improved since October, but producer return are down”—Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission.
[ http://www.saskwheatcommission.com/pres ... ncreasing/ ]

6. “International buyers say Canada’s reputation as a high-quality provider of top protein wheat is in jeopardy”—The Western Producer March 26, 2015. Government “farm-group cheerleaders” and industry captured organizations like Cereals Canada are not able to provide the leadership required, causing 30 year sellers of Canadian wheat to say “OK, don’t bother me anymore with your crappy wheat.” [ http://www.producer.com/2015/03/is-cana ... n-decline/ ]

7. The Federal government intends to give away the current CWB’s assets—assets paid for by farmers—to an existing grain company.
[ http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/ ... 73751.html ]


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Statement from Minister Ritz on the Supreme Court's Ruling on Marketing Freedom

[ http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=960409 ]

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(April 9, 2015) - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Today the Supreme Court of Canada rejected the leave application to continue with the class action lawsuit brought by the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (Dennis et al) against the Government for removing the single-desk monopoly of the Canadian Wheat Board.

This decision upheld the previous decisions of the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal which ruled in favour of the Government and awarded costs to the Crown.

"Today's ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada once again upholds Western Canadian farmers' right to marketing freedom.

"The overwhelming majority of farmers have embraced the new economic opportunities created by marketing freedom and are taking Canadian agriculture to record heights.

"Marketing freedom is and will remain the law of the land. Our Government will continue to defend the rights of farmers and will continue to work with farmers to create economic opportunities across the sector."
- Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz


Contact Information

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Director of Communications
Office of the Honourable Gerry Ritz
613-773-1059
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Re: Cdn Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA) Fights On . . .

Postby Oscar » Fri Apr 10, 2015 6:13 pm

NFU Vows to Continue Quest for Accountability on CWB

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For Immediate Release April 10, 2015

NFU disappointed Supreme Court not hearing CWB class action case

(Saskatoon) - The National Farmers Union (NFU) is disappointed that the Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear the farmers’ Class Action lawsuit stemming from the Harper Government’s dismantling of the single-desk Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). Had the case proceeded, the Supreme Court would have been able to determine whether common law property rights apply to collective interests in property, namely the assets farmers paid for and added value to as a result of their management and direction of the CWB. The central question of the case was “Did the federal government unlawfully expropriate a proprietary interest of grain producers in the CWB by enacting the Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act in 2011?” The class action also claimed that by dismantling the single desk CWB, the government unjustly broke its trust and interfered with farmers’ economic relations. The legal action also sought compensation for the losses that resulted from the government’s actions.

“The economic damage farmers have suffered since the Conservative government destroyed the single desk Canadian Wheat Board is very real,” said Ian Robson, NFU Board member. “Western farmers have lost more than $7 billion dollars since August 1, 2012 – the equivalent of a full year’s wheat and barley crop. This is money that is not being spent in rural communities, not being invested in our farms, and not circulating in the Canadian economy. Farmers worked long and hard to build the grain marketing system we had, and which benefited the whole of Canada’s economy. It is a shame that the Supreme Court of Canada will not be able to hold the Harper government accountable for this damage.”

“The Supreme Court’s decision is disappointing, but worse is the fact that farmers were forced to go through the judiciary to try to have their voices heard when in the summer of 2011 it was already clear that the majority of farmers supported the single desk,” added Matt Gehl, NFU Board member. “By not holding a farmer vote, as was required under the existing CWB legislation and after promising to do so in the 2011 election campaign, the federal government disregarded its duty to represent the people.”

“Minister Ritz claimed the benefits of individual farmers selling wheat and barley to the private grain company of their choice would be felt immediately, yet the first three years have shown massive losses for farmers,” said Doug Scott, NFU Board member. “With the CWB we got close to 100% of the full world price of grain, and sometimes more. Today, we are getting 60% if we are lucky, and economists predict that will keep going down as grain companies and railways flex their muscle. There is no more final payment – what you get from the elevator is it. The grain company keeps the rest. If this is Gerry Ritz’s idea of great early results, I shudder to think about how bad it will be in a decade.”

“I think it was hard for people to realize just how fundamental the CWB’s single desk was. Now that it is gone we are taking hard lessons in transportation, quality, access to delivery and price,” said Jan Slomp, NFU President. “To bring order and prosperity back to the prairie grain system, we need to reinstate the single desk.” - 30 –

For more information:

Jan Slomp, NFU President: (403) 704-4364

Ian Robson, NFU Region 5 (Manitoba) Board member (204) 858-2479

Matt Gehl, NFU Region 6 (Saskatchewan) Board member: (306) 216-6064

Doug Scott, NFU Region 7 (Alberta) Board member: (780) 650-1336 or (780) 358-2376
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Re: Cdn Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA) Fights On . . .

Postby Oscar » Tue Jul 26, 2016 5:51 pm

Port of Churchill layoffs a preventable tragedy


CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD ALLIANCE
P.O. Box 125, Hussar, Alberta, T0J 1S0
http://www.cwba.ca

NEWS RELEASE July 26, 2016

(Pelly, Sask., July 26, 2016) “The layoff notices to grain workers and others at the port of Churchill, Manitoba are a tragedy for both the workers and farmers in western Canada,” said Kyle Korneychuk spokesperson for the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA), an independent prairie-wide farm group. “What is worse is they were entirely preventable.”

Korneychuk went on to say: “Harper Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz understood this very well and provided a subsidy to create the illusion Churchill would remain a viable port after he killed the farmer-controlled Wheat Board. Now that the subsidy is at an end, it is no surprise the layoff notices are coming.”

“The port of Churchill provided a significant freight advantage to eastern Saskatchewan and western Manitoba farmers. Because the single-desk Canadian Wheat Board could service premium customers they fully utilized the port’s facilities and preserved its rail link using a winter rail program to fill the terminal over winter. By coupling this program with on-farm storage premiums, the single desk brought more money to the farm community and kept this strategically vital asset economically viable” observed Korneychuk who served on the CWB’s elected Board of Directors and earlier on the Board of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool.

“Our organization frequently warned in submissions to the Harper Government and in advertising during Federal elections that the giant private grain handling companies who control the majority of the world’s grain trade have no interest in using Churchill. For them it is a smaller volume facility which they do not own.” Korneychuk observed.

“On the other hand, farmers represented by the single-desk CWB, which owned no port facilities, had no conflict of interest in using whatever port would return the greatest value to producers and Churchill was one of those ports” he said.

“We recognized that shareholders and owners of the multinational grain companies and the two foreign owned railways have different priorities, and these do not include returning the maximum value of prairie grain to producers or maintaining shipments through facilities they do not own.”

Korneychuk concluded by offering his sympathy to the many workers and their families who loaded prairie grain into ships to help prairie farmers feed the world. - 30 –

For further information call: Kyle Korneychuk at (306) 537-0950

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Who We Are: The Alliance is a politically non-partisan organization focused specifically on the Canadian Wheat Board. Members of the Alliance recognize the advantages the Board brought to producers through the single desk and price pooling, quality control through the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC), as well as the important role the CWB played as an advocate for farmers in transportation, producer cars, and on the world stage in trade disputes and negotiations. The Alliance draws memberships throughout the west.
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