Premier downplaying our historic and economic past...
Outside of the usual "homing pigeon" comments - in other words we want to be crapped on - Danny is making us the laughing stock of Canada.
While on his u-haul constituent tour in Alberta the Premier apparently said the following:
"We joined Confederation in 1949 and so are Canada's youngest and coolest province," said Williams. "And when we grow up, we want to be just like Alberta. We just want to wrap our arms around this province and fully embrace it."
We may have joined Confederation in 1949 - but we should have been bloody grown up by then. We are Juniors in Canada but Seniors as a country. Danny we existed before confederation and hopefully we can exist after it. When we grow up we want to be like Alberta???? When our veterans were fighting in the wars - were we grown up then? When we sent salt fish to Alberta to a starving population - were we grown up then? When we built one of the best engineering structures in the world (the Upper Churchill) - were we grown up then? When the miners on Bell Island were hauling ore to supply the war effort - were we grown up then? When we fed Europe with our fish from the treacherous North Atlantic in an open dory or wooden schooner - were we grown up then? When we fed our iron ore to Quebec and Ontario to build their economies - were we grown up then?
Please spend some time with Dr. John Fitzgerald and really listen to him - don't lock him up in a Central Canadian Tower - and you might learn that we grew up along time ago. We do not need a politician that acts like a child looking for a cotton candy. Or one that uses aviary terms to describe our people - or hockey analogies every time we are discussing or debating a serious issue.
Wrap your arms around Alberta all you like - but if you understood the fishery and the size of the losses we have suffered under the federal mismanagement fiasco - if you truly understood the value of hydropower and oil gas - wind - tidal and wave power - if you understood the size of our iron ore deposits and copper and nickel and uranium and gold and ...then you understood the value of our fresh water - you should know that Alberta - if as naturally blessed would have twice the money and people it has now. We don't need a Premier to look at Alberta with worshipful eyes - we need a Premier that has a vision and promotes the Province as the cultural - historic - rich place that it is.
We need to see Alberta as our competitor and you need to be sure that you position us to win - anything else is beneath us Premier. In case you have not noticed they are attracting our people because they are successfully developing their resources. Do you know the amount of industry their oil and gas supports? Have you had a look at their petro-chemical sector? What do you think Danny they would do with 2800 MW's of hydropower.
This is what a reporter said of the Premier:
Where Graham is positioning New Brunswick as Atlantic Canada's energy distributor, Newfoundland aims to be the region's "energy warehouse," said Williams, so the province looks on Alberta with worshipful eyes.
We have always been the warehouse for every resource - we store it up and sell it wholesale - no value added - for somebody else to build an economy on. If you had followed Charest to Davos instead - and then you could have learned a real lesson.
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When we built one of the best engineering structures in the world (the Upper Churchill)
Who's the "we" that did that? The engineering and financing came almost entirely from outside "we".
When we fed our iron ore to Quebec and Ontario to build their economies - were we grown up then?
"We" might be grown up if "we" realized that, but for the capital of the steelmakers in the Great Lakes region of the US and Ontario (what steelmakers are their in Quebec?), "we" would have no iron ore mines at all. "We" should be grown up enough to realize that the modern mining industry is the outgrowth of the modern smelting industry, and has been since the iron age.
Hi WJM - thanks for your input - what do you think about the idea of 4 Labrador Party seats after the next provincial election - and that it's possible they could be the Opposition?
and that it's possible they could be the Opposition?
I do not think it's possible, no. They would neither sweep Labrador, nor be the second-largest party.
I wonder whatever happened to the N&LP? or NLFirst?
The Newfoundland and Labrador Party ceased to exist a number of years ago. I do not know what happened to the final chapter of it.
I was proud that we were able to put resource issues on the map and deliver some positive recommendations to the established parties in this area - particulalrly as it related to Labrador.
Unfortunately myself and Al Chislett the co-founder of the party parted on two issues. The first and most important to him was that the NLP support a policy which would reduce if not eliminate the mineral tax he had to pay on his tens of millions in royalties and second he wanted to accept corporate contributions - that was against the founding constitution and he was unwilling to wait for a convention to see if that could be adopted.
The first poll on leadership held after the party was announced I came in at 15% the party at 5%.
Too bad really the party did not have the financial ability to hang on.
It's one of these things - at least one has the guts enough to try.
As for the Labrador Party - why can't they sweep Labrador - if they did the Party could form the opposition or would be a significant position in the House.
Oh yes WJM - do you work for a political party - or government?
Oh yes WJM - do you work for a political party - or government?
No and no.
Damb right Sue ,this Newfoundlander would vote for the Labrador Party !!!!
OH and whats wallace doing over here .
thank you My dear !!!!
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