Just why an industry that has shrunk to so few members needs a board-run exchange to connect buyers and sellers is a mystery to me.
The way I understand it, farmers who want to buy and sell quota need do no more than tell a feed salesman and the word will spread like wildfire.
Why not have a few meetings for members to discuss the pros and cons of running an exchange?
Why not allow directors who have differing views - i.e. different from Pelissero's - granted freedom to express their opinions during these types of open meetings for members?
What's the rush, Harry?
Haven't you got enough on your plate already, trying to explain how your blunder over fining Svante Lind a few thousand dollars for alleged cheating on grades, has blossomed into a legal battle that is costing board members thousands and thousands of dollars in legal fees?
And do they know that the board could have settled the lawsuits against it simply by having Pelissero take early retirement?
Of course, there would still be another Pelissero sitting around the board table.
And how come Pelissero assumed Lind was cheating on grading, but he hasn't lifted a finger to determine whether the allegations that the province's biggest egg graders routinely cheat by setting their automatic grading machines to allow a percentage of cracks in Grade A cartons?
I understand the graders say the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has an "administrative tolerance" for cracks. If so, I can't find it. I do believe the CFIA may have an administrative tolerance for cracks at the retail level, but I don't think there's any tolerance at the grading station level.
Maybe Pelissero should check that out and let his members know.
