Did you here Dr. Earle today on Open Line with Randy Simms? He said we need to ask "what we can do for our fishery".
He articulated the same message as Sue's Blog in Fish what Fish and Have you Found our Cod - Have we Found our Guts.
Randy Simms should listen and learn about the fishery. Yes he is willing to let people speak - but evidence is mounting that regarding the fishery - he is myopic on his view. No Randy - it is not acceptable to simply repeat
propaganda of inept politicians - or greedy multinationals.
Symptomatic words of one influenced by fishery propaganda:
1. rationalization
2. downsizing
3. restructuring
4. resettlement
5, regionalization
and phrases like " if there's no fish there's no fishery"or "there's no place for youth in the fishery anymore" or "you're just going to have to find a job somewhere else".
These are words and catch phrases that most if not all our federal and provincial politicians could not debate even at a primary level. We certainly do not need talk-show hosts simply repeating the false gospel out of the mouths of "special interest" prophets.
Once again people like Dr. Earle and Gus Etchegary are right. We continue to have our culture, history and economy plundered while incompetent or lazy elected representatives suck their thumbs.
In today's dollars Dr. Earle was probably right that we are losing close to a billion a year from Ottawa's mismanagement - and JohnCrosbie's "I did not take the god-damned fish out of the water" is nothing more than a cop out and trying to rid himself of the responsibility he holds for the mismanagement of this world class renewable stock. In fact maybe pouring John another Tequila - Gail Shea might be the answer.
We either want the money year over year or we want the fish. We are not willing to give up our short-medium-long term future because our politicos at all levels - refuse to act.
When that oil is gone - made worse by the equalization robbery - we will be pitiful unless we keep in place and working for our people and communities our natural renewable resources.
Ches Penney and John Risley's attachment to the fishery is a joke. They have an attachment to a commodity which is a common resource of our people and our communities. The nonsense sputtered and spewed by fisheries ministers, MHA's and/or MP'S is just that and it's time for rural Newfoundland and Labrador to give them a kick in the arse and send them on their way. They have failed.
To answer Dr. Earle's question of "what can we do for our fishery" - first we kick the political lot out - start to speak as a united people on what we want done - and demand it be done.
2 comments:
Simms and I have had an ongoing discussion for years .
The man is intelligent , there is no doubt ,but, [he] insists on declaring his "admiration"for , in this case Clyde Jackman .
How can [he] be so publicly "supportive"of the minister and still maintain his "objectivity" about the fisheries ?
I have a feeling that our Mr. Simms may well be more "cunning", tham "myopic"
Randy's comment immediately after I hung up the phone was that 'it will be interesting to know what will be in the MOU when it's information is released.' Completely putting the issue back, for the listener, where it has been, on the wrong track.
This rermark from him after I spent 5 minutes explaining that the MOU addresses the tip of the ice berg of our fisheries problems and its basic philosophy accepts all that has been , and is being done, wrong to the resource. (By Ottawa and the Industry).
We all know, because of this, that we have lost 100,000 of our coastal people and 30,000 fisheries jobs, gutting the beautiful unspoiled places where our spirit is rooted.
And how does Jackman respond to these facts? By saying the so called hard decisions that we will have to face with the downsizing of a successful MOU will be placed on the ordinary people of rural NL!
This from some one we elected to represent us in our government indicates he has no spine to stand against the Industry nor to be a leader of our sea people. (What ever hardships we may have to adjust to in future in our fishery should never be further on our fishers and coastal people...it has to be absorded by the Union and ASP.)
All this was expressed to Randy, but as soon as my air time ended he acted as if nothing I said meant anything, it didn't dent his authorative mantra, because he thinks he knows more then anyone else and what got past that didn't pass his arrogant political ego.
Randy is not alone however in this omnipotency, it prevades nearly all our so called leaders and elected heads. Nearly all of them think power and voice emanate from themselves instead of the truth, that it comes from the people.
We have been bullied out of much of our resources since our federation in 49 in one way and another by 'outsiders', the worst of them being Ottawa.
No bullying however has been as devastating as the one in our fishery, because it has destroyed our culture, our homes and families...a tragedy.
The people who have allowed this to happen are as guilty and responsible as are the ones who have done it. They are barbarians.
But they will never dent the passion that is in my heart to do what is right for, and fight for, this marvelous, beautiful, sacred place and our people. dr earle
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