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Written by Contributed by Daryl Hepting
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Sunday, 17 September 2006 |
A board member of a lobby group dedicated to eliminating the Canadian Wheat Board is now the director of the Canadian Wheat Board, the federal government announced Friday. Ken Motiuk sat on the board of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers, an organization that has spent decades trying to get rid of the CWB. He is "a strong supporter of marketing choice", according to federal agriculture minister Chuck Strahl.
"As we move towards a new marketing choice environment, the CWB will benefit from directors like Mr. Motiuk," Strahl said in his appointment announcement.
The appointment is aimed at destabilizing the Wheat Board, says Stewart Wells, National Farmer's Union president. “Mr. Motiuk’s primary qualification for this appointment seems to be his commitment to destroying orderly marketing and the single desk,” Wells stated in a media release.
Wells said this appointment flies in the face of past Director appointments, which were designed to ensure appropriate expertise was brought to the CWB Board table to complement the knowledge of the farmer-elected Directors. “While his association with various grain companies and the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange shows he is familiar with the grain business, they also show whose interests he represents.”
“This appointment is the latest in a series of actions that show the federal government is going against the wishes of the majority of western Canadian farmers,” Wells said. “For the most part, western Canadian farmers have not been electing open market candidates during the CWB election process. Instead of accepting this message from farmers, the government is now appointing the type of person that farmers refused to elect.”
“Since the first elections in 1998, more than thirty open market candidates have run, but only four open market candidates have ever been elected to the CWB Board of Directors,” said Wells, “And two of those candidates later changed their minds and were re-elected on a platform of supporting the single desk.”
Wells concluded that farmers must elect strong Board members during this round of elections in odd-numbered districts. “There is some speculation that open market candidates may not run because they would be afraid of losing and taking momentum away from the government’s heavy-handed actions. Regardless, farmers must make sure they have strong candidates nominated in every district – candidates who are able to stand up to the abuse and ideology of this Conservative government.”
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