Canadian Wheat Board

you know, especially with .NET or, you know, the modern languages, you get so spoiled with examples, right? You know, how do you do this? How do you do that? And so we really had to like do some kind of like R&D to figure out, you know, what's the best way for this to happen? You know, is it, you know, some things we, you know, run into and found out, you know, it's not multi-thread safe, right? And or supported.

So like, you know, trying to create like a web application with the, hundreds of users calling it would like single thread it and you know uh chain up the the commands and things right um so so that would be the one thing i guess we solved that with technology um maybe uh maybe another one uh would be uh we the canadian wheat board um you know there it's not a thing anymore but um used to be kind of government uh controlled right the all this uh the buying and selling of grain you know at west um And, uh, you know, we had a, uh, so they, they were like, it was a huge, huge undertaking, I guess, to, to bring them on, you know, to our product.

Um, and I remember we did these like huge estimations and it was like, um, you know, just a crazy time of, of, uh, trying to, uh, well, we, you know, we wanted to help this client and it was like, it was huge for us to like get that client.

And, uh, um, so sometimes, you know, you just have to go over and over and aboard, right.

I was writing about...

I was writing against the, uh, Canadian Wheat Board monopoly.

Mm.

Of course.

And the, the, uh, financialization of food, uh, shifts the control of the food system from farmers and local communities to financial markets, banks, and corporate, uh, investors.

And a Canadian example, of course, is the Canadian Wheat Board, which for decades was a farmer-led way to protect themselves and, and, and, and protect their industry, um, was privatized by the Harper government in 19- uh, 2015, and is now majority-owned by a Saudi investor, uh, investment, uh, conglomerate.

So, you know, we've watched financialization in other areas, and now we're seeing the financialization of nature, which is basically the same.

And it is the process where- whereby nature, ecosystems and their so-called services to humans are converted into tradable financial assets.

I don't have a short list of spas.

And then you closed the Canadian Wheat Board.

Uh, well, you know, uh, I'm, I'm very in favor of closing the Canadian Wheat Board-

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They partnered with the current owners of AGC, a consortium of 29 First Nations and 12 northern communities known as One North, to acquire the assets from Denver-based Omnitracks in 2018 before transferring their stake to One North in 2021.

Now, historically, the Canadian Wheat Board was the main user of the port, with annual export volume sometimes exceeding 400,000 tonnes.

Shipments dwindled to zero in 2016. following the end of the CWB's single desk back in 2012.

It's that long ago already.

And this is probably a good place to approach that.

The Canadian Wheat Board came into effect as a voluntary agency until February of 1942.

Canada went to war in September of 1939.

The Canadian wheat board wasn't a monopoly.

It's the December bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 that brought the war global.

And when it brought the war global, the government of Canada put the monopoly on cereal grains of barley for Western Canada only.

So it's quite interesting.

It's already happening.