In an unanticipated move - Anne (PEI Tourism) is joining the ranks of Heather Mills (McCartney)in the fight to stop the seal harvest. It seems the Green Fables are seriously impaired by people who don't approve of the hunt - and Anne is asking the DFO to protect her interests - and leave the Island while the harvest is going on.
According to DFO officials the protesters and "observers" camp in PEI because of geography. ??? OK Therefore DFO feels it's important that they are there to answer questions about the harvest. ???
This is what the executive director of the P.E.I. Fishermen's Association - Ed Frenette - said to CBC about the harvest and his obvious support for the well-being of fishers from other Provinces.
"We've had responses from people around the world saying they refuse to come to P.E.I. during tourism season because they view us as being the killers of seals, when in fact we're not."
Another clear example of trying to have the best of both worlds while pitching any negatives to Newfoundland and Labrador. The PEI Fishermen's Association should just come out with it - do they support the seal harvest or not? Fish or cut bait guys or you are no better than the money grabbing organizations that make their living slitting our economic throats.
So Little Anne is on a mission to boot the DFO off the Island and take a crack at her neighbours in Newfoundland and Labrador while she's at it. In fact if you use your imagination and add a few more tragic moments to the story - one could see Heather Mills playing the role of Anne for a summer or two.
In either case the next time you think of vacationing in PEI - think about the less than hospitable Anne (PEI Tourism) - and how she feels about Newfoundland and Labrador.
4 comments:
This is truly sickening, though not surprising.
I just copied your post to a friend of mine who teaches at the university there and who is quite involved with the tourist industry; particularly the Heritage Association.
This attitude of Frenette's surely can't be typical of the attitude of the majority of the Islanders.
I just heard a caller to Fishermen's Braodcast on CBC Radio St. John's, he said our action for PEI' stand on the Seal Harvest should be to boycott PEI potatoes. I say let the boycott begin. How best can we get this idea out to all Newfoundlanders and Labradorians? Pass along the word everybody.
As a Newfoundlander I am ,understandably, not pleased about Frenette's attitude but to boycott P.E.I. potatoes seems a bit childish. I would prefer seeing Newfoundlanders act a bit more mature and not retaliate in the same way.
Right - suck it up?
What about if they are treating their potatoes inhumanely?
No more tolerance for bashing Newfoundland and Labrador. They can't build their economies by damning ours - they can of course - but the potatoes got to go.
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