Yes let's try again Minister Susan Sullivan says of Rural Broadband access.
Let's do something local hey?
So when Tobin is in power he turns contracts over to Cable Atlantic then owned by Danny Williams - who then almost immediately flipped it to Rogers. (local argument gone)
Then Williams comes to power and gives Persona then owned by Dean Macdonald many millions for a new fibre-optic line. Macdonald then flips almost immediately flipped it to East Link (local argument gone).
In the meantime Newfoundland Tel (Aliant) is the loser in both scenarios - and as a result backs away from continued investment in the province.
You see we are a limited population - there is no room for two or three players. If you bring competition into an underpopulated area - you lose the main service provider. It would be the same if the government decided to let another power distributor in to compete against Fortis. The dollars available to be made would be reduced and investment commitments would be lost.
I know we are creating a lot of millionaires - without any real plan to deal with these communications issues.
What a bloody mess, Minister Sullivan - and the lack of infrastructure and investment is starting to show. Wait till the poles have to be dealt with. Wait until the systems fail without proper investment in maintenance.
Meanwhile - business and tourism will continue to stall without a proper plan.
The government says this time the RBI will be better than the GBI (government broadband initiative) - really Minister Sullivan - and you guarantee this how?
Lit and unlit were the terms then Minister of Duct Tape Trevor Taylor used during the GBI fiasco. No control of funds. Complete mess according to the Auditor General John Noseworthy.
What Tory business faithful have their hands out now?
By the way Minister Sullivan - why do the hospitals in the metro area use a SASKATCHEWAN CROWN corporation to provide cable TV to our patients?
If you want to review the past on this flipping PRESS HERE
3 comments:
Isn't it deplorable the corruption that has gone on under our very eyes?
There must be a clause somewhere within the system, that we, the electorate, can get access to sue for moves that are made by our government leaders which are not kosher? We are ripped off in every way that is possible and by both levels of government. It is time for us to wake up. But, of course, anything can be done under opaque conditions, the system which is practrised by the Federal and the provincial governments of Canada.
What a bunch of sleeve-ins politicians become when the get elected. They become millionaires and make the ordinary person poor through the moves they make, and they feel no emotion about it at all. It is shocking!
Your points are legitimate.
Politicians are salesmen. Tobin is the best example - goes to work for Frank Stronach's racetrack division and the first thing he does is he tries to sell the racetracks (Stronach disagree and let Tobin go). Tobin joins the Consolidated Thompsen mine in Labrador - he sells it and the natural resources that go with it to an American company. Last week he became Chairman of CIVC, the Port au Port oil crowd who have not found a productive well in 18 years - you just watch - it will be on the market within 12 months - because that is what salesmen do - they sell things.
Mark D
Yes, I am shocked at the way our present politicians and ex-politicians have so much control over our provincial natural resources and the fact they treat them as if they owned them.
Some of them have made Millions from our natural resources.
There is a conflict of interest there, and I think, we should have auditors with the right to audit every move the politicians and bureaucrats make to avoid the scavenging that has gone on in the past.
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