This election is starting to get real interesting. The Overpass syndrome is starting to reverse. Rural Newfoundland and Labrador is starting to move toward "it's our turn", and so it is.
You see the PC's and NDP can fight it out in St. John's Metro while rural districts can win the day by voting Liberal. The platforms are gearing up and policies are coming out. For rural communities and districts the message from the Liberals and leader Kevin Aylward is that it's time for oil wealth to be used to revitalize the rest of the province. It's time to deal with the fishery, the paper-mills, mining, renewable energy, and tourism.
If rural Newfoundland and Labrador wants to reverse the trend of outmigration, chronic unemployment, loss of industry, and diminishing services in health and education - then they vote Liberal and invest the oil wealth outside of St. John's Metro. With six percent unemployment in St. John's Metro and over twenty-five per cent in other regions there are plenty of reasons to take control of the seats in the House of Assembly.
From a Labrador perspective, the Lower Churchill could be focused on industrial development and clean hydro for all the Big Land with revenues generated to be spent primarily on an adjacent basis.
Labrador could reach it's real potential and not continually be hearing - we'll get you next time around. When one thinks that Muskrat Falls is being developed to remove Holyrood and provide Nova Scotia with cheaper power - Labradorians are hard pressed to see that anything has changed. The truth is Labrador should not allow anymore development of its hydro resources unless they get at least 10 permanent jobs a megawatt. Labrador will get the temporary construction jobs regardless of what the deal is - they need a longer term agenda. This is something they might get under the Liberals this time around.
The Tories cannot demonstrate the need for Muskrat - at least not for the need they suggest. The Tories are routinely telling people and groups to go away, stop getting on talk-show programs, stop protesting, do as we say, do not oppose, and if you want anything do not speak against us. The Tories are pointing accusatory fingers when the Liberals promise a needed increase for public service pensioners but do not at all question how they spend and on what. The Tories have abandoned the fishery, abandoned the paper towns, abandoned rural communities, abandoned ordinary Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, abandoned the Big Land, and increased cronyism and the public service by 20 per cent.
Yes the time for the overpass syndrome to be reversed is now - and I believe it may just happen. There's nothing better for arrogance than a swift kick by rural Newfoundland and the Big Land.
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The lies we were told, the robbing of our natural resources by the politicians who pledged they were going to be our saviours and do what was right for our people and our province have turned most Newfoundlanders and Labradorians off from even voting.
Matter of fact I think we have to bring the political system in this province and Ottawa to justice for allowing the plundering of our province's resources to the point where we cannot even be compared to any place else in Canada, despite the fact we have the second largest GDP showing in Canada. Yes, indeed, without any of the trimmings from it benefitting our province or our people. We have the lowest salaries, we have the lowest industry, lowest number of jobs and we have the least infrastucture, despite the fact so many of our raw natural resources are shipped out of here that are creating great industry, great jobs, and infrastructure, for the other provinces. And besides all that we are paying into the equalization pot to subsidize the salaries of fat cat Canadians. Something is wrong with the Canadian political and economic systems.
Our Newfoundland and Labrador politicians, both past and present, who have been involved in criminal activity against their electorate have nothing to be proud of, and, in fact, they should turn themselves in to be prosecuted for their crimes. I have to substantiate what I just said by saying not everyone was a criminal, some had great intent to be good but the multitude of bad politicians made it impossible for them to opeate under the system. Most of the politicians were out to fatten their own pocket books from the proceeds of the natural resources they allotted for development and they, indeed, did fatten their own economic positions.
It is sickening to even think of what happened here in Newfoundland and Labrador. We feel like wounded animals who wants revenge and that we should get it.
Listen up Ottawa please reform the awful political and economic systems under your control. Please see to it that the province of Newfoundland and Labrador becomes an equal province. Please stop demanding that our natural resources be shipped out of here for the betterment of a Centralized Canada.
The way things were and are, where we had to shipped off all of our natural resources for the benefit of Central Canada has destroyed our province in more ways than cheating us out of great economics here, it has stripped us of our self-esteem, as well.
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