According to VOCM this morning - there was an ATV accident in Harbour Breton yesterday. That is not real. No such accident occurred in Harbour Breton. Wrong community - some 60 km's away and on a different finger on the peninsula.
The remote road is not out of Harbour Breton rather Seal Cove - just beyond Hermitage. That remote road is a reminder of our past - it ends where one would have taken a boat to Pass Island - a resettled fishing community.
While we are on the subject. When Kathy Dunderdale shows up to "open" a new aquaculture wharf on Friday July 15th at 9:30 a.m. - in Hermitage - will it be by air or road?
I truly hope the Premier takes the breathtaking Bay D'Espoir highway route - because then poor Tracy Perry might be able to convince her boss that the ROAD is GONE.
You see the Coast of Bays as this area is known by - is a lesson in beauty, a demonstration of nature's perfection, and remote enough to be untouched in its splendour. Bay D'Espoir, Hermitage - Sandyville, St. Alban's Seal Cove, Harbour Breton, Pool's Cove, English Harbour West, Boxey, Belloram, St. Jacques, Mose Ambrose, and by ferry Galtois, Rencontre East, and McCallum are all communities that should be on your "must visit" list.
The South Coast is like a few Gros Mornes but without the political attention. I must say that former MHA Oliver Langdon did a great job in infrastructure for the area but sadly Ms. Perry you are going to have to work harder. Your district should be a tourism mecca - that should include sightseers, adventure tourists, photo tourists, and families. I can't imagine why Europeans, Asians, and Americans are not flocking to this idyllic place. With all money Newfoundlanders and Labradorians dump in Florida as "snowbirds" - I can't imagine why Floridians are not sunbirds coming north to enjoy a comfortable summer in this pulchritudinous land.
Here's the problem - Prince Edward Island can attract a million tourists a year with "Anne" and french fries - while Newfoundland and Labrador attracts half that amount - something is not working! Look at the tourism infrastructure on the tiny French IslandsSaint-Pierre and Miquelon and look look across the water at the South Coast.
We have the Northern Lights, Fjords, Whales, Icebergs, a coastline almost the length of the eastern USA, untouched nature, tremendous flora, fauna, and geology. You will note that Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia gets more national media attention than the thousands of coves in our province. We all know that transportation is not acceptable.
Perpetual Ferry Problems
No Train
Reducing Airport infrastructure everywhere but St. John's
Roads and Highways rutting, deteriorating, and disappearing.
Do we get it yet? We are to be avoided - and Canada will help that thought in anyway it can.
Tourism - yah right! Our "Voice of the Common Man" can't even get our communities and places right.
While you are at the ribbon cutting Premier - please see if you can find a reason to let's say get a National Park for the south-coast. See you there.
While we are at it - what is "Snook's" opinion on the cost of travel between Newfoundland and Labrador - I know Upper Canada has always liked to push a divide between our people. It's cheaper for any Newfoundlander or Labradorian to travel half way around the world than visit each other. "RRight On".
3 comments:
Sue, Thanks for this post. It reminds me of how much of an economy we could have created here in our beautiful province had our Politicians and Bureaucrats stood up to Ottawa instead of toeing the line for it. If they had held their ground, Ottawa would have had to give in on what our leaders wanted, they would not have wanted the province of Newfoundland and Labrador to be a total burden on the country and as a result they would have wanted our natural resource base developed, but our leaders gave in and Ottawa and Canada got the creme de creme of our natural resource base. If our leaders had held their ground and said we are dictating how the resources of Newfoundland and Labrador will be spent, we would have been the Primary Beneficiary of the most prolific FISH NURSERY in the World, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and Labrador, we would have been the Primary Beneficiary of one of the World's largest Hydroelectric Energy Project, and could have created the same industry that Quebec created from that resource, we would have been the Primary Beneficiary of one of the largest Iron Ore reserves and created the smelters and manufacturing plants to do the business from it, we would have been the Primary Beneficiary of the Largest Nickel Reserve in the World and we would have been the Primary Beneficiary over God only knows how big an Oil Reserve which is in our off-shore waters. We could be enjoying the proceeds from our Air Space, worth in the Billions to someone else annually.
What could we have been become economically if we had the smelting, refining and processing capacity right here in our province of all those natural resources, which would be providing the economies and jobs and thus attracting the immigrants, no matter where in the World they were from, just like the other provinces of Canada which received the benefit of being the Primary Beneficiary and built economies and attracted immigrants because they could provide work for the people. Plus with the vibrant economies that could have been created and the infrastructe we could have laid down in our province because of it, we no doubt would have had the ability to create the best tourism industry in the whole country, since we have all the things that tourist crave and you have outlined in your post. But because of what happened to our second to none natural resource base and Thanks to our Political and Bureaucratic Leaders, we became the economic laggards in Canada, while others thrived on our natural resource base. Shame on our now rich Politicians and Bureaucrats, who toed the line for themselves and Ottawa. It is nothing short of a crime what happened!
Who's Tracey Perry?
lol
Good question!
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