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Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Board Of Directors For 2007

Date 18/01/2007

Shareholders of WCE Holdings Inc. elected the Board of Directors for 2007 at the annual meeting held on Wednesday, January 17, 2007. The Board of Directors of WCE Holdings Inc. also serve as the Board of Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Inc. ("WCE").

Immediately after the shareholders' meeting the Board met and re-elected Mr. Lorne DeJaeger as Chairman and Ms. Sandi Mielitz as Vice-Chairman. The Board of Directors consists of:

Lorne DeJaeger, Chairman (Outside Director)
Sandi Mielitz, Vice-Chairman
Mike Gagné (President and CEO, Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Inc.)
Pete Anderson (President and CEO, FCStone Group)
Brian Hayward (CEO, Agricore United)
Bern Kotelko (Outside Director)
Bill Parrish, Jr., (President, Parrish & Heimbecker, Limited)
Brant Randles (President, Louis Dreyfus Canada Ltd.)
Curt Vossen (President, James Richardson International)
Terry Wright, Q.C. (Outside Director)
Ray Wyse (General Manager Global Oilseeds Commodity Trading, Archer Daniels Midland Company)

WCE is governed by an 11 person Board of Directors, which must include a minimum of three Outside Directors who are neither Participants nor employees/affiliates of Participants, and the President and CEO.

Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Inc., established in 1887, has been facilitating futures contract trading since 1904. WCE is Canada's only agricultural futures and options exchange and North America's first fully electronic commodity exchange. WCE offers futures and options contracts on canola, domestic feed wheat, and western barley.