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Article: Letter to Editor - "Reign of terror" at CWB claims another victim
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- The Brandon Sun
- Article date:
- February 13, 2008
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The Harper government's reign of terror against the Canadian Wheat Board continues.
Their hand-picked CEO, Greg Arason, fired vice-president of communications, Deanna Allen, without cause. I believe Ms. Allen was fired because she did her job and was obviously standing up for the farmers and the CWB.
When Greg Arason was hired, he signed a personal services agreement with then-CWB Minister Chuck Strahl. The agreement with Strahl created a bizarre situation where Arason, the CEO, could not promote the CWB or the single desk.
Arason and the other CWB-haters appointed by the Harper government view their task as attacking the CWB and to end single-desk selling. The Canadian Press quotes Arason ...