Is this right?
Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are going to raise money to send a retired DFO official from Ontario around Canada to tell the country what the current DFO and federal officials are proposing to do with NAFO and how this may hurt our industry.
Applebaum discovered some alarming NAFO information - but make no mistake he was until 10 years ago - a DFO official. This man also refuses to acknowledge interference by International Trade or Foreign Affairs. He calls the bartering of our fish for other deals on auto plants or wheat sales a myth. He also does not believe custodial management on the nose and tail of the Grand Banks and Flemish Cap is possible.
Without being willing to say why these things keep happening - we cannot fix the problem.
Perhaps the Ministers responsible for fisheries in 3 or 4 provinces should travel the land. Perhaps these people we already employ should be forced to know what's going on around them. Perhaps Rideout should tell us what happened in the meeting between Applebaum and the province. Perhaps Rideout can tell us why our people in the Canadian NAFO delegation did not pick up on these problems until Applebaum wrote a letter.
And now we know what the problems are - please tell me there are some local experts who have written endless reports on the fishery - the senior staff of Fisheries and Aquaculture - bureaucrats at the Department of Intergovernmental Affairs - Provincial - who are able to make our case. My god Danny - where are all the fish experts now? You want joint management!
There's something bloody awful about having to send Applebaum around the country on this issue. Where is your outrage at the feds pulling this type of stunt and your outrage that our people did not pick up on the problems themselves?
Steve 6 - Danny 0
Fallow Field legislation
Equalization
Custodial Management
Labrador Highway
NAFO amendments
New Defense Presence in Labrador
How many times can you get Norm Doyle - Loyola Hearn - and Fabian Manning unelected?
Instead you are pulling out a Joey stump - from the "pamper camper" while everything burns around you. You are drunk with power - time to sober up.
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