Designing Outmigration

With the continued outmigration of our people without any effort by government to stop or even slow it down we must ask, "...what is the real agenda?"
The following quote of the day may help sort that out.

Hansard House of Assembly

MR. SULLIVAN: Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
The Premier has often indicated that our economic performance is due to a strategic economic plan in our Province. On May 5, the Government House Leader said: The economic visions and plans of the government are clearly documented in a Strategic Economic Plan, which was unveiled in 1992 by then Premier, Clyde Wells. Now that is the best his current government has to offer the people of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2003. It is a plan with an eleven year record of failure.
I want to ask the Premier: How can he defend an economic policy that saw the biggest out-migration of people in our history, that downsized our population by 10 per cent, the biggest downsizing in the western world since the Irish famines?

MR. SULLIVAN: Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Not only did more than 60,000 people leave our Province, but those who stayed behind did not fair very well from this government’s economic policy.
The latest report from Stats Canada reveals that incomes in Newfoundland and Labrador have not kept pace with the cost of living. In fact, the medium income in this Province has declined by 3.7 per cent since 1990, the biggest decline in the entire country.
I want to ask the Premier: How will he defend the economic policies that have made Newfoundland and Labrador poorer, relative to the rest of this country, than they were eleven years ago?



This comment was made when the Member was in Opposition and was the critic. Now he is the Minister and the one person they have hired to create a new "economic plan", is the same fellow who was significantly responsible for the "plan" Loyola Sullivan was critisizing.

Considering, in the opinion of Loyola Sullivan, that plan seen mass outmigration and devestation to our economy, he must be planning for the same thing to occur now as he is part of a government that has hired Doug House again.

As this is titled, "designing outmigration".