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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Another review of NAFO meetings...

Questions are still being asked about whether there was real success for Canada at the latest round of NAFO chats.
The wording is loose and does not provide any new effective guarantees. Further, the one area of substantial movement - the agreement by delegates to ban bottom trawling on seamounts is not something DFO (Loyola Hearn) even mentioned in his News Release.

This story from Canoe News

Do you wonder at all why our Liberal MP's are silent in the House of Commons on Loyola's promise to take custodial management of the nose and tail of the Grand Banks and Flemish Cap?
Still no word on the possibility of a judicial inquiry on the collapse of the groundfish stocks off Newfoundland and Labrador - despite Harper's commitment to conduct one for salmon stocks on the Fraser River in British Columbia.

1 comment:

NL-ExPatriate said...

In case you haven't figured out why the opposition isn't up in arms about the custodial management promise.

It's called Toe the party line.

The party line is set by the majority and the majority of MP's are from Ontario and Quebec. which are also the representatives of the people who are benefiting from allowing foreign nations to rape and pillage the 40% of our continental shelf which lies outside the arbitrary 200 mile EEZ line.

How do we get out of this never ending circle of marginalization and abuse of our resource.

The system has to change so all of the provinces have some equal say in ther affairs of the country.
Through a Triple E senate and a bilingual judge from each of the provinces and territories so our Morals and ethics get equal representation in the dominion.

How do we get these changes not from within and by supporting the system as it is. we need to reject the system as it is and demand change for equality.
Don't vote for change to our Democratic/Imperialist political system.
Kinda like a reverse referendum.
The other option is to elect independants but I can't see this option sending the message we want and that is change to equality.