Ok time to deal with the Loyola twins, the Southern Shore Boys who are doing their communities proud. To Hearn and Sullivan, "your communities are disappearing"! The story on CBC this morning featured mothers leaving home with the kids, heading west, leaving dad at home in the boat to catch crab for a collapsed harvest price.
These mothers with the kids are actually joining grandmothers already left for
Where is the income stabilization program for the crabbers? When farmers' crops or livestock lose significant market value for any number of reasons, the feds step in to ensure the farm can survive. The comparable program for Newfoundlanders and Labradorians is to get EI qualified by moving to another province.
What's the deal?
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MP Chuck Strahl is having none of it. His constituents will not fret that the Minister might not deliver - he will - he has!
Our population is being decimated by the Dr. Doug House socio-economic experiment. Nobody has answered the questions associated with this Deputy Minister responsible for (coordinating the development of a provincial plan).
Here's what we know:
- Doug House has been involved, at the senior government level, in the economic recovery of this province since the 1980's,
- We have paid this man well over a million dollars for our economic recovery,
- Doug House believes in mass resettlement, preferring that people move to regional cluster zones,
- His reports include;
1992 Change and Challenge: A Strategic Economic Plan for
1986 Royal Commission on Employment and Unemployment Reports, Queen’s Printer:
Building on Our Strengths. Final Report [Chairperson; Principal Author]
Building on Our Strengths, Summary Report [Chairperson; Principal Author]
Yearly Reports of the Economic Recovery Commission:
1996 The Integrated Approach: Making It Work.
1995 An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Economic Development in
1993 Towards a New Economy in
1992 The Economic Recovery Commission, the Strategic Economic Plan, and Regional Development in
1991 Building on Our Strengths: From Blueprint to Action.
1990 Building the
1992 New Opportunities for Growth. A Project of the Economic Recovery Commission,
1989 Going Away...and Coming Back: Economic Life and Migration in Small Canadian Communities. Report to the Demographic Review, Health and Welfare
1986 Fisheries Policies and Community Development: Proposal for a Revised Approach to Managing the Inshore Fisheries in
....just to name a few,
- Loyola Sullivan, when Leader of the Opposition, claimed that this man's economic policy caused mass out migration and unemployment,
- Two days after becoming Deputy Minister, he's on a plane to Simon Frazier University in British Columbia, giving a special lecture on the lessons of Newfoundland and Labrador respecting rural economies, and
- He is hidden, not meeting directly with the people he wants to uproot and resettle.
In the face of our young people streaming out of the province to seek opportunity, in the face of our population aging more quickly than any other province, in the face of mothers, fathers, grandmothers, and grandfathers hitching a ride on Marine Atlantic, (Alberta's ocean going shuttle bus), and in the face of our fishery and rural culture going the way of the Labrador duck, our media, politicians and community leaders say nothing. It's summer after all and the BBQ's are flaming and vacations are ongoing; how can we expect these people to be bothered by the utter destruction that is
When this summer ends and the leaves die back in the fall, the skeletal remains of our trees will be very representative of our rural regions. And what is daddy
