Is there anybody out there now that does not believe that Stephen Harper and the federal government of Canada is doing everything within its power to destabilize Newfoundland and Labrador?
We are being decimated on a daily basis. We are being ripped to shreds - one policy at a time.
We are irrelevant and are bring used to prop up failing provinces including Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia.
The absolute only interests Harper and his colleagues have are to restructure our existence - move our people one by one, move the services one by one, move the resources one by one and by doing so destroy us.
One cannot sit in a chair - think reasonably about what is happening here - and not conclude that we are being eliminated.
MHA's of all stripes are sitting on their arses and moaning - pondering the last stand - lower the Canadian flag (joke) - and doing NOTHING concrete about our lot.
Men and women who apparently wanted very badly the job of representing the people and our province are watching our demise.
Kathy Dunderdale is incompetent and the fact that other Cabinet members and backbenchers are following behind her says something of either their abilities or guts.
Both Opposition parties have taken on the role of mourning each loss and adding "at least we tried" as are leaders of business and labour.
Our MP's have a groan fest going of their own. "See - I told you so" - what a pitiful lot - and the hypocrite Peter Penashue will no doubt get his reward - and it will cost his people. Grab the cheque and run right Peter? Muskrat will have a whole new meaning in years to come.
Vote Liberal, Vote PC, Vote NDP - that's all any of you is concerned about. Partisan - Patronage - Politics - your country be damned.
You sorry group - ye of little faith in the strength of your people. Is it possible that you can tug yourself away from the public purse - quit - resign - let somebody get in there and stop the carnage.
Conspiracy theory? Is that what lets you sleep at night?
It no longer matters that thousands of people are being displaced?
It no longer matters that communities are failing?
It no longer matters that confederation delivers nothing?
It no longer matters that our resources are being stripped?
It no longer matters that a young man died?
Go ahead - have a nap - and when you wake up - move on. Disgrace! Your heart is not in it - for if it were - you could not sit and watch. It's ripping my soul out - you however do not appear bothered. Public service at the highest level - that of elected office - means you should have passion. It is non-existent!
Showing posts with label Association of Seafood Producers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Association of Seafood Producers. Show all posts
Friday, May 25, 2012
Monday, April 30, 2012
Clawing our way Forward - Co-op-eratively
Fisheries Policy in Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador is - to say the least - a failure.
1. Our ground fish stocks were destroyed by federal management.
2. We have lost 80,000 people from our province as a result.
3. We have lost dozens of communities as a result.
4. Continued decline of processing these natural resources.
5. Continued increase in Corporate desire to ship unprocessed catch.
The lobster fishermen in our province are moving forward with a "new" approach to their fishery by voting to form a Co-op. This in turn allows them more control with respect to pricing and offers them alternatives to the continued control of pricing by the buyers/processors.
Sounds great to me.
How about this?
If the species is processed in the province - let the harvesters and buyers/processors work it out while growing jobs for secondary added value.
The only time the government of Newfoundland and Labrador should consider a request to ship raw catch out of the province is when that request comes from a harvesters co-op.
If you want to be a processor - then process. Do not seek to become a harvester by proxy - while diminishing the real economic potential of value-added production.
The province should then reinstate a marketing arm that will help harvesters sell their catch to foreign markets - when processors have no interest in value-added production of the species.
The government of Newfoundland and Labrador have a responsibility to all people of the province and in the socio/economic well being of same. The corporate processors have responsibility to make as much profit as possible for the shareholders of their companies.
1. Our ground fish stocks were destroyed by federal management.
2. We have lost 80,000 people from our province as a result.
3. We have lost dozens of communities as a result.
4. Continued decline of processing these natural resources.
5. Continued increase in Corporate desire to ship unprocessed catch.
The lobster fishermen in our province are moving forward with a "new" approach to their fishery by voting to form a Co-op. This in turn allows them more control with respect to pricing and offers them alternatives to the continued control of pricing by the buyers/processors.
Sounds great to me.
How about this?
If the species is processed in the province - let the harvesters and buyers/processors work it out while growing jobs for secondary added value.
The only time the government of Newfoundland and Labrador should consider a request to ship raw catch out of the province is when that request comes from a harvesters co-op.
If you want to be a processor - then process. Do not seek to become a harvester by proxy - while diminishing the real economic potential of value-added production.
The province should then reinstate a marketing arm that will help harvesters sell their catch to foreign markets - when processors have no interest in value-added production of the species.
The government of Newfoundland and Labrador have a responsibility to all people of the province and in the socio/economic well being of same. The corporate processors have responsibility to make as much profit as possible for the shareholders of their companies.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Closer to home - Fish Lobbyist
Newly minted Conservative MHA Keith Hutchings - he was just a provincial lobbyist for the Association of Seafood Producers - ending 2007-01-12. He was lobbying on behalf of these employers to the Workplace Health and Safety Commission. Do voters know this? Does Trish Dodd and the Injured Workers Association know this?
When on with Randy Simms - Simms asked tell us a bit about yourself - he did not say -I am or was just a paid lobbyist for the Association of Seafood Producers. In that wonderful fishing district of our province - and Keith who claimed that the fisheries collapse is tough but you know aquaculture is the way of the future. Gee - where did he get that theory from?
Does the fact that he lobbied for the Seafood Producers Association have any bearing on his opinions round the caucus table?
Why not ask people we elect or who want to be elected - who were they working for. Why not ask those people we pay?
You see the red-herring of a blogger not identifying who they work for - is just that - raise the invalid - to hide the valid.
You see Keith worked for Loyola Sullivan when he was PC leader - did he ever work for the WHSC? Loyola - whose brothers are involved with Seafood Producers!
I guess Keith had great contacts within government.
Once again - I ask - what are the MHA's for or the MP's - get a lobbyist.
Maybe the Independent and Ryan Cleary could do some research on what a lobbyist is - who they work for - how much they are paid - and what they are lobbying for.
When on with Randy Simms - Simms asked tell us a bit about yourself - he did not say -I am or was just a paid lobbyist for the Association of Seafood Producers. In that wonderful fishing district of our province - and Keith who claimed that the fisheries collapse is tough but you know aquaculture is the way of the future. Gee - where did he get that theory from?
Does the fact that he lobbied for the Seafood Producers Association have any bearing on his opinions round the caucus table?
Why not ask people we elect or who want to be elected - who were they working for. Why not ask those people we pay?
You see the red-herring of a blogger not identifying who they work for - is just that - raise the invalid - to hide the valid.
You see Keith worked for Loyola Sullivan when he was PC leader - did he ever work for the WHSC? Loyola - whose brothers are involved with Seafood Producers!
I guess Keith had great contacts within government.
Once again - I ask - what are the MHA's for or the MP's - get a lobbyist.
Maybe the Independent and Ryan Cleary could do some research on what a lobbyist is - who they work for - how much they are paid - and what they are lobbying for.
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