The entertainment piece on Shaye contains this sentence:
Ex-Newfoundlanders Kim Stockwood and Damhnait Doyle and PEI native Tara MacLean are shown balancing family, friendships and the pressures of the music industry. All three had pre-Shaye solo careers and all three continue to work on their own projects outside of the group.
I'd like to know what the gals think about being referred to EX-Newfoundlanders...
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The Security and Prosperity Partnership (Bush Harper and Calderon) with Corporate Elite determine for us what our country will be like in the future.
Three right-wing gurus "brainstorming" in other words being lead around by the nose by corporate masters.
Council of Canadians and Maude Barlow provide these highlights on the group:
1. The SPP is the political manifestation of a corporate plan for economic and security integration that was never voted on in any country.
2. Energy is arguably the sticky goo holding the SPP together. Canada and Mexico have agreed to give U.S. oil companies an even tighter grip of both countries’ resources in return for vague assurances that the U.S. won’t shut the border to our goods.
3. An SPP roundtable on the “Future of the North American Environment” on April 27, 2007 in Calgary discussed “water consumption, water transfers and artificial diversions of bulk water,” with the aim of achieving “joint optimum utilization of the available [North American] water.” The meeting was part of the White House-funded North American Future 2025 Project that has Canadian government backing as a venue “to help guide the ongoing Security and Prosperity Partnership,”...
4. Joint Canada-U.S. no-fly lists, exclusive airport service for “trusted travelers,” and racially based immigration policies that criminalize people from “high risk” countries. These are among a few of the extremely disturbing “security” measures contained in the SPP. The simple fact that Maher Arar is still on the U.S. no-fly list, despite exoneration and a formal apology from the RCMP and our federal government, is proof that none of these measures can make Canadians any safer.
5. In May 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper put 10 members of the CCCE onto a permanent high-level advisory board called the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC). This group has been asked to “prioritize the priorities” in the SPP and to “drive change.” Meanwhile, the public and most of our publicly elected officials have been left out of the picture completely.
6. The Council of Canadians demands that Canada cease all talks leading toward deeper integration between Canada and the United States. At the very least, we must bring the SPP to the House of Commons for a full debate. We must also disband the North American Competitiveness Council and consult with Canadians in a meaningful and participatory way on Canada-U.S. relations. The majority of Canadians would prefer a “Sovereignty and Justice Partnership” with the United States, which protects Canada’s energy and water, preserves an independent foreign policy, and addresses real security concerns instead of the fantasies of the Bush administration.
Meanwhile our MHA's and wannabes are still stuffing hotdogs on the BBQ circuit.
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E Source Ranks Electric and Gas Company Web Sites
The three best Canadian web sites are provided by BC Hydro,
Terasen Gas, and Hydro-Quebec.
Meanwhile where is our energy plan? How much is Timothy Powers of Summa getting paid by Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro to "lobby" the feds? So what then is John Fitzgerald (Danny's boy in Ottawa) doing? What is Ed Martin doing? Has Ed Marting ever brokered a hydro electric deal prior to becoming CEO of NLH? Unfortunately the media is tied up finding out what happened to Tara Oram's voting. Or that the RNC hired two people. Or the highway and police carnage of the day. Or Danny's red herrings like Grenfell or gravel pit camping instead of his failed threats to Harper over equalization.
Where's the energy plan? What's happening with the police investigations of the other MHA's? What about the Auditor General's report on House of Assembly spending? Or his report on Persona? What happened with Persona? Are they sold? What does that do to the "local" argument? What about the fishery? FPI? Or where is Loyola Sullivan - who takes a job under the Prime Minister that lied to us and him when he was provincial Finance Minister?
Why are we talking energy nationally when "Mr. Open and Accountable" has not brought any Lower Churchill discussion to the House of Assembly? Who is writing the bits and pieces "red non-book" for the Liberals? Who are the policy gurus? Are they Walter Noel? Roger Grimes? Danny Dumeresque? Art Reid? John Efford? Norm Whelan? Rex Gibbons?
Why did Yvonne Jones say Danny was a statesman - when the whole Liberal message is that he is a bully who cannot negotiate anything?
It would be nice to have an aggressive media don't you think?
5 comments:
One of the many great things about being Canadian, is that it's your constitutional right to call yourself whatever you want, and it's up to everyone else to prove you wrong. So what, if someone else refers to you by any other name than who you really are. "I'm a Labrador Metis, who is elligible for Inuit Status, if I was to apply." On one hand we have immigrant Newfoundlanders who now call themselves Labradorians.... It's their right. On the other hand I have two sisters who married Newfoundlanders and identify, as Newfoundlanders. I don't feel as though they are being disloyal to Labrador. Choice is a wonderful gift isn't it? The real issue here is denying somebody consultation in their own land regarding their own resources, by making them non- existent. It's all about free ranging exploitation of some one else's adjacent resources. I hope the 3 young ladies in question will always feel free to refer to themselves as whatever and whomever they please.
P.S. My reason for not applying for Inuit Status.... I would have to leave my traditional home to avail of the rights in an Inuit lands claim area. Accepting those rights would deny me the right to hunt and fish in my own area as I now can. The government along with LIA has created this rift. Clever? Yes..but identity goes way beyond what other people may decide to call you.
Thank you for that input. I'm still waiting to see how much exploitation Williams is going to try in the second term.
Sue you are writing fast and furious these days good stuff.
On the ex-Newfoundland bit - does that word even exist?! I have only ever heard of one person who might profess to being an EX and that is a young lady from BC who has been hanging out with P Watson's Cult. Un-F%$#$^% believable that Tara is a "PEI Native" while Kim and Damhnait are EX's. No wonder Canada has such distain for the Ontario mentality.
As for the SPP, interesting to see the different perspectives from webtalk and offalnews. I won't comment because I've already pissed off too many people this week.
Keep up the writing Sue.
While I'm here - Melvin I like the way you think, thanks for the perspective.
If the media had any real desire for the truth they would have picked up the story that was handed to them 18-24mths ago. Potentially $10M of our tax dollars is going into growing a NB company while a local company with equal experience and enough resources to do the job was sidelined...no tender...no discussion...just give the growth potential to NB for a few jobs locally. The NB company will then gain new markets and expand...in NB. We know they won't expand in NL, if anything they will try to move our local jobs back to NB. Its so amazing that a Minister is quoted in a newspaper that the Gov recognized the value of the service by this local company, then stone walled the company before handing the contract to NB. Where was Danny then...he wasn't standing up for NL or Local growth...no he was praising a short sighted win for job creation in a ministers district that was getting a lot of bad press.
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