HEARN AND WILLIAMS TO DOWNSIZE THE PROVINCE
Well - the big News Conference has taken place - and no early retirement program for older fishermen - plant workers or workers in the forestry sector.
AND NOW COMMUNITIES, FISHERMEN AND PLANT WORKERS HAVE 6 WEEKS TO TRY AND SAVE THEMSELVES.
So what happened to the media on Diane Finley's announcement?
Why are we hearing nothing from the unions or politicians - with the exception of Yvonne Jones!
This announcement is a disgrace! Alberta is getting more for displaced older workers than we are!
Why is the media allowing Loyola an easy ride on this one?
Where are the federal MP's?
In case you missed the announcement here's the News Release on the great Fisheries Summit
and Discussion Paper
and here's the News Release on the Older Workers Program
Which communities will qualify?
How many workers will be eligible?
What will they train for?
Are they all going to Alberta?
AND NOW WE HAVE A DISCUSSION PAPER FOR THE FISHERY!
WAKE-UP PEOPLE YOUR PROVINCE IS BEING DESTROYED!
1 comment:
Sue;
Yet another consultation process! How many does it take anyway? Does anyone else believe that they will keep doing these things until the Big Companies and Government get what they really want, which it appears to me is to do away with those nuisance inshore fisher people and marginal fish plants? Why else would the Hearn guy and Rideout refuse to consider banning bottom dragging? Little inshore fishers don't have those. This time around they will have fewer people to deal with, so many have just had to give up and make their way to Alberta or other points West. It looks like what they really want is to process, where possible, at sea, and deliver fish products direct to markets - skipping, where at all possible, sidestep the bulk of the population and little communities of this Province. The question(s)will always remain to be answered: Who owns this resource and who should benefit? It surely does appear that Dan W and his rich, big company buddies will deliver this common property resource to the hands of a few companies and to hell with our little communities. In looking at the whole process from the fishing grounds to the 'plate', it probably doesn't matter what goes on the plates of the inshore folks. No doubt that will make this province much cheaper to administer in terms of infrastructure as well,once they eliminate a few more rural communities. Mind you, whatever was great about this province will have disappeared into the history books, or disappeared from history altogether, along with the Beothucks and Southern Labrador Inuit. I am not sure if the people of this Province will even have genuine input that will actually be taken seriously. Does it matter if we mimic Iceland, or Norway or anywhere else?
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