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Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Announces New Board Member

Date 13/07/2006

Lorne DeJaeger, Chairman of the Board of WCE Holdings Inc., is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. W. T. (Terry) Wright, Q.C. to the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors of WCE Holdings Inc. also serves as the Board of Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Inc. ("WCE").

Mr. Wright has extensive corporate and securities legal experience having practiced law in Manitoba since 1971. He is a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Law Society of Manitoba. Prior to joining Pitbaldo LLP as Counsel, Mr. Wright worked in the financial services sector as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of IGM Financial Inc. During his tenure in the financial services sector he was Chairman of the Board of the Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada and Investments Funds Institute of Canada and a director of the Centre for the Financial Services Ombudsnetwork, the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments and the Canadian Payments System.

Mr. Wright has a long history of community service, including having served as President of the Board of Directors of The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Chairman of the Health Sciences Centre Research Foundation Inc., and Chairman of the Board of both the Victoria General Hospital and the Victoria General Hospital Foundation Inc. Mr. Wright also serves on the boards of Ag Growth Income Fund, Enervest Energy and Oil Sands Total Return Trust and Enervest FTS Limited Partnership 2006.

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.