Sue's Blog

Monday, July 10, 2006

My Subjects are Wanting

So the Governor General Michaëlle Jean is visiting the Island this week. Hard to know whether to curtsy or cry. Did anybody else hear the interview she did with Ingrid on "on the go", CBC last week?
She wanted to let us know that she understands we are the poorest province in Canada - but we are rich in our people. Do we contribute to paying her staff? Is it possible they can complete research which better reflects our situation in Canada? In a voice that wishes to compete with Diana Krall, she politely sideswiped our existence with a Grammy whisper.
Hey you - another reminder of our insulting friends from Upper Canada - Newfoundland and Labrador is rich, that is rich in its resources. The richness of our culture, heritage, and people is being decimated while our leaders, you know who you are HEARN, are cow-towing to the mainland flattery or flaherty (same thing).
I cannot listen to this ignorance from Central Canada anymore. The only royalty I'm interested in is the one that comes from any given resource.
It's funny you know I had the feeling, while our Premier was hanging on her every word with as much grace as a townie can muster, the fish were multiplying in the ocean at her very presence. Fortune was about to be graced with gold bars, emeralds, and diamonds, and have not would be no more. The people who were loaded in a U Haul, booting it to the cattle boat, stopped - turned around and went back to Harbour Breton. Our students' debts were forgiven by her Excellency in an act of kindness and generosity. The people who had lost their jobs and were heading for a flight to Alberta, threw the suitcases out the window, went to the local shop that grandpa owned, (Costco) and purchased brilliant hats with feathers from a pigeon recently shot with a pellet gun in St. John's.
Her words cascaded over our agony like iodine on my finger with a fish hook stuck in it. She calmed me, actually I think its called shock - she shocked me into the truth as I watched an apathetic crowd giggle to themselves in the presence of Ed and Eve at the garden of Hedon- ism.
Listen Michaëlle please ensure when you grace Labrador with your presence that the speech writer and/or you are educated on our history. I have always ignored pedestals and I will never put an adult on one - that leads to idolization of what by its nature is imperfect (humans).
You are a fortunate Canadian with an interesting background visiting the country of Newfoundland and Labrador bartered by your boss, her Royal Highness, and raped by your employer, Canada.
If you would like to help, find Loyola tell him he's from the Southern Shore and to get back home out of it, he's not old enough to be playing with the big boys and their influence is unwelcome.
I have a pair of jeans I can lend you and a make work program suitable for a Governor General. Instead of moving rocks from one side of a Canadian mound to another you can dig some nickel out of the poorest province in Canada. Should you run out of energy you can pick up some of ours next time you visit Quebec. Or we can send you an odd barrel of oil for Ontario to process.


For god’s sake will somebody flick that Churchill switch.