A story in the Telegram today has left me with more questions than answers.
The Headline read "OCI and Marystown settle municipal taxes".
Excuse me? What taxes - how many years were owed? What prevented the taxes being paid before now? What do they mean a settlement? Why won't they tell the public what the settlement was?
What does the following quote from the story mean? "While both parties have mutually agreed to the settlement of taxes up to and including 2011 we look forward to negotiating a more fair and reasonable tax structure for 2012 and beyond with the Town of Marystown as we have with other municipalities”...
So let me get this straight - if you are an employer in a community needing employment - the municipal tax structure is out the window. If a fisherman/woman or plant worker is having a rough year - taxes will be waived - renegotiated? Why not open it up to negotiating provincial tax as well.
Does OCI - owned by Ches Penney have problems paying tax?
How much more do we have to turn over to merchants to remain in their good graces?
How much access to the resources do they already have?
Are they losing money or something?
Why not visit the OCI website and have a look!
While you are there review the News Release regarding Loyola Sullivan being appointed VP of Resource Management and Sustainability.
So yes Loyola achieved a great deal when he was Canada's Ambassador for Fisheries Conservation - right?
The News Release lists Martin Sullivan as CEO and Blaine Sullivan as COO - all in the family for conservation right? Who is conserving what? Who are they conserving it for?
Oops better stop talking now - or OCI might haul up their stakes and move from Marystown.
Looks like Newfoundland and Labrador is on the way to creating an Irving sort of control. So how much is enough?
Was there enough tax saved in Marystown to pay for a philanthropic Ches Penney venture?
Ah just another rut in the highway of Corporate Voodoo - get those paving trucks out - again and again - and again...
One final note what are the media allowed to ask these days?
From Sprung to Brinco - and from Cable Atlantic to Persona - what control do we have of our government anymore?
No Control!
I must admit Mr. Penney - you have managed to put some squarely in their appropriate social status.
The Former president of FPI is now where?
The Former Minister Sullivan is now where?
How was that pick - up and "purchase" of FPI assets.
I must say that when I go to the the FPI site today our familiar little fishy is still around - unfortunately it's now controlled by Highliner USA - then again we've lost control of all our little fishies right? That is the ones we can find.
Remind me again - who owns the resources? Who should be the primary beneficiary?
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What an iggly piggly way to conduct business and government. We always have been governed in a way that the foxes have guarded the henhouse (corrupt) and I cannot see an end to it anytime soon. The Canadian Military has been in Afghanistan fighting the Warlords so that the Afghanis can have a better life, but it would have been better if the Army had been put in our own province to deal with our own War Lords, (politicians, bureaucrats and business men) a situation which was created by Ottawa because it wanted access to Newfoundland and Labrador's natural and human resource base for the benefit of the other provinces under its control, but, of course, the politicians and bureaucrats on this end had to get something out of it as well, thus the mess that exists in our so called economic system today. And it will go on and on until the majority of the electorate of this province become aware and stand up and put the corrupt archaic system to death.
I just heard recently it is possible that 3 well known ex- politicians and bureaucrats might be forming a coalition under the Liberal banner to oust Liberal Leader Yvonne Jones from office. The three amigos have already gotten tens of Millions of dollars from the province of Newfoundland and Labrador`s resource base and, I guess, they know that they can get tens of millions more by channelling matters in a certain directions. I am sick of the corruption, how do we stop it?
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