I have - never seen such tripe coming from Dannyless PC MHA's - particularly in rural areas.
I have heard considerable talk about one issue in their campaign. The vital issue is "vote to be on the government side".
This is the most important issue - for them - not so much for the electorate.
They are not concerned about the fishery, collapsed forestry sector, Muskrat Falls fiasco, unemployment over 20 per cent in many rural communities. They are concerned that you and me MUST vote to be on the government side.
Okay so if I vote PC - what industry will we lose - and how will they try and manage that failure?
The fact that two Ministers shepherded the loss of two historic and significant paper mills under their watch - from primarily what looked like a war between Williams and Weever - should be enough to shove them out the door. But no - they want people to elect them based on being on the government side.
Tell the Great Northern Peninsula - that was promised by Williams and Taylor - they would not be forgotten. No they were not forgotten - they were remembered by the most significant cuts ever witnessed.
Please voters - elect us - rural communities can continue to die - we will manage it. Make you feel good because we are on the government side.
Even John Noseworthy - Mr. Accountability - got into the action. He tried that when announcing his candidacy to oust the Leader of the NDP.
They are a disgrace - and if elected they promise to act on this issue - we promise to stay on the government side. That is unless the tide turns and Ross Wiseman might trot back to the other side.
This issue in short - opportunists first - representatives last.
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One issue that concerns me today is the corruption I see swriling around us in the Political and Economic Sectors of Newfoundland and Labrador. I think Newfoundland and Labrador should set up an Anti-Corruption Commission, just like Quebec.
I think the time is long overdue for our government to follow suite with the Quebec Government (which today finds itself being deluged with Corruption in the Building and Transportation Sector in a very clandestine manner) and Newfoundland and Labrador should set up an Anti-Corruption Commission of its own to monitor what goes on in our province.
It stands to reason that a province, like Newfoundland and Labrador, with so with many of its great natural resources that have been developed, hasn't benefitted any more economically than it has over the past 62 years from the development of its coveted resources.
The province of Newfoundland and Labrador has the most coveted and desirable natural resources in the World developed to date, Fish, Hydroelectricy, Minerals of every type, and Oil, all blessed in a GREAT STRATEGIC LOCATION situated from every point on the Atlantic Ocean and yet they have benefitted our province very little.
It was some other province or country that became the primary beneficiary of those developed resources, which are providing Tens of Billions of Dollars of Wealth annually to their economies directly and indirectly, not ours.
Monies from the developed resources might well have benefitted the politicians who saw the development of the resources AND that is the reason I am calling for an Anti-Corruption Commission to be set us in Newfoundland and Labrador.
I would also like to have the Muskrat Falls Contract perused by an Independant Accountant Firm selected by the electorate, as everyone knows we have a Quebec Company involved in the Engineering of that contract. I want to know if the Firm has charged Millions of dollars over what we should be paying in order to to pay off some entity that shouldn't be paid. How do I know that the $6.2 Billions dollars cost should have been $2.2 Billion dollars to develop the Project? And after all this Project is being pushed ahead in a time when the World, including the U.S and Canada is in an official Depression, not a Recession? There appears to be no need for the energy from our province's standpoing, given there are no waiting customers for the excess energy and the province of Nova Scotia is going to be benefitting greatly from this project for 35 years.
How do we know that to get the economics going in the future, Labour might, no doubt, be cheaper along with everything else??? Economics might have to start over.
Something is amiss when the province of Newfoundland and Labrador has the second highest per capita GDP in Canada, we pay into the Equlization Pot to enhance the salaries of the highest paid workers in Canada, while we here in Newfoundland and Labrador have the highest Unemployment statistic in the country, the lowest wages and we are the province with the least amount of industry and infrastructure.
Our politicians have appointed matters, it seems, so that they themselves and other outside entities thrive, while our province and its people failed to thrive economically, thus, in my opinion, we should have an Anti-Corruption Commission set up to oversee matters that the ordinary citizen of the electorate has no control over.
WE NEED A WATCHDOG ORGANIZATION TO BE SET UP IN OUR PROVINCE TO OVERSEE MATTERS.
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