" In all my years in the public service and through the most difficult
of times in this province I have never seen so much vindictiveness and
outright snobbery conveyed to our rural society in response to the the
article by John Furlong of Fisheries Broadcast. Its absolutely amazing
that a bubble of prosperity largely inside the overpass could trigger
such a response and our political leaders should be held partially
responsible and accountable for many of these misguided comments. I have
followed the Broadcast for approximately 50 years or more but I may
have listened to my last Fisheries Broadcast under the leadership of our
own "Margaret Wente" who appears to be alive and well here in our very
midst."
Signed: a Disgruntled Newfoundlander
2 comments:
I AGREE THAT WE HAVE ANOTHER MARG WENTE IN OUR MIDST.
I received an email today with a cartoon titled "Possibly the best cartoon of this century"
The cartoon graphics had a Boy directing a comment to his Dad. The Boy said "Dad I'm considering a Career in Organized Crime".
Dad's reply was "Government or Private Sector". The boy stood there thinking. The Dad replied "I personally would suggest government. They never go to jail".
I tried to paste the whole cartoon with the illustrations on your site Sue but I was unable to do so.
I think some of our politicians should have gone to jail for giving away our Natural Resources in the Raw State and especially giving away 100% of the fish quota, that saw vibrant economies built in other places of Canada from the fruits of our Natural Resources, while we suffered greatly in our province, WITHOUT A WORD OF THANKS FROM CANADIANS.
Of course Canadians had no idea what was going on since to advise them would be telling Newfoundlanders and Labradorians that their Natural Resources were pilfered to create economies elsewhere and that would not have worked for them.
Hi All,
I have been watching this debate over the last 24 hours.
When we formed the NL First Party our aim was to get fair representation in Ottawa. Now that we have the Harper Regime for the next 4 years (thanks to the Blue Liberals in ON who got cold feet 48 hours before the vote and feared an NDP Minority govt, Harper got 21 ON sets and his precious majority), NL will most likely never get an equal place in Canada. 7 seats just do not cut it!
NL First was never shy in saying that if we did not get equality, then we exit. I think it is now time to exit, stage left. Then we will tell the EU and Canada to keep their hands off OUR fish.
Wayne Bennett
Former and Last Leader NL First
Concerned Progressiver Conservative
wayne_bennett@nf.sympatico.ca
709.635.4451(R)
709.6359.5350 (C)
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