Everybody needs to make a buck right? I guess we all decide at one point or another if the activity of making that buck just goes too far for our stomachs.
I am sick of Rex Murphy - the native "Newfoundlander" (as you all know he constantly leaves off Labrador in the name of our province) pontificating his views so vigorously so as to leave one believing it's fact.
As you likely know Rex Murphy and other CBC resplendent mouths have caused a bit of a stir lately regarding their speech junkets. Murphy has been called out for appearances in front of the oil and gas elite.
Two things Rex wants you to know.
1. Alberta saved us, and
2. Danny corrected the wrongs of the Upper Churchill
Rex would have other Canadians believe that when our fish crisis hit in the early 1990's - it was Alberta that kept us from hundreds of divorces, thousands of bankruptcies, and a population headed for complete annihilation. He thanked Alberta on our behalf.
First of all Rex - you should concentrate on the Newfoundland and Labrador shaft - wherein the entity responsible for fisheries management failed and our people took a direct hit from that mismanagement. Ottawa - Rex - was the bankrupt, Ottawa - owes this province billions of dollars, and Ottawa - Rex should be raked over your coals for this colossal failure. Yes Rex - tens of thousands of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians lost their livelihoods and dozens of communities failed outright. Yes Rex - it is comparable to Ontario losing 600,000 jobs overnight - however the federal response was so different.
Ontario was in peril - about to lose their bread and butter automotive sector - through no fault of the federal government and through great fault of the private sector - but Ottawa responded and continues to respond to any fart going sideways in Toronto.
The fishery - Rex was a direct responsibility of the federal government - and they failed. The consequence of that has been catastrophic to our province - yet Ottawa continues to deny its responsibility - a constitutional responsibility - and watch our province struggle to survive another confederate mess.
So - Rex - in speaking to the oil magnates of Alberta - first describes that the wonderful and professional conference environment is hardly what he found when he did his first speech in the Lion's Club of Joe Batt's Arm. Then he gets to the heartfelt - intellectually drooling - thanks to Alberta on behalf of all of us. Rex can't stop his adoration of Alberta for saving Newfoundland and Labrador, thousands of our people and thousand of our families. My God - Rex thinks divorces would have been so frequent as to shatter the idea of marriage if we were not saved from by Alberta.
The solution to our fisheries crisis should have been found in our province. The billions should have kept coming from Ottawa until the stocks recovered. Our fishermen/women and plant workers should never have had to leave home to seek gainful employment. The billions we lose every year - as a result of Ottawa's mismanagement should be replaced by Ottawa. Our fishermen/women and plant workers could have been employed using the compensation money that should still be flowing from the feds.
Rex - many of our families have been destroyed BECAUSE they had to leave this province to find work. Families were torn apart, communities devastated, and seniors left without a relative to enjoy.
Alberta certainly gained from our loss. They had access to thousands of skilled tradespeople and workers - that they needed at the time for their booming industry. They got our population - not our seniors - but young men and women and families to build their energy sector. They gained - we lost and continue to lose. Yes many of our people travel back and forth - but many others and their children (now adults) have stayed and increase the population of that province. They have now made Alberta home - generations of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians gone.
On another occasion - actually it was when Danny Williams resigned as Premier - Rex joined the CBC's national panel to give his two cents worth on the departure. He agreed with Mansbridge that Danny was a fighter. Rex went on to say - that Williams came in - "in the wake of the closure of the fisheries" and with the Emera term sheet "corrected a 50 year grievance that's gnawed at the hearts of Newfoundlanders since the day that Smallwood signed the Upper Churchill" and further described the Williams agenda as limited but large "the offshore - the revenues - fix all the bad deals".
This verbal nonsense leaves Canada with an impression that is not real. The 50 year grievance has not been resolved - and further the deal Williams cut makes Newfoundlanders and Labradorians pay billions of dollars to go around Quebec and this time benefit Nova Scotia. Meanwhile of course - discussions are always on with Quebec and Williams did not eliminate them from the equation. There is Gull Island.
And this question Rex - what did the great "fighter" Danny Williams do to right the wrongs of the fishery?
If Murphy wants to impress the oil elite in Calgary or share a studio with Mansbridge - he should do it talking about something he knows something about - like Toronto. All Murphy has done here is perpetuate the myth that Newfoundland and Labrador is a welfare state relegated to thanking others for survival.
Please take the time and listen to Rex:
Talk about Alberta saving Newfoundland and Labrador - PRESS HERE
Talk about Danny Williams saving Newfoundland and Labrador - PRESS HERE
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Is Rex Murphy seeking PC leadership?
CBC's Point of View with Rex Murphy was very telling this week. I invite you all to listen to it HERE
Get your pencils out and mark down how many times Murphy says Newfoundland or Newfoundlanders without any reference to Labrador. Despite the CBC's caption below the video: The National's Rex Murphy looks at Kathy Dunderdale's exit from the top post of the government of Newfoundland and Labrador. In case you missed his latest essay, click on the video above to watch. Murphy refuses to say Labrador.
If Mr. Murphy has a problem with the constitutional name change precipitated by the people of Newfoundland and Labrador - maybe he should tell us.
Now let's get to the content of his opinion on Premier Dunderdale's resignation. At least we know his is an opinion and not news - as Mr. McLeod of the Telegram likes to do.
He makes the following points:
1. Kathy Dunderdale following her own script on leaving
2. There was no political or personal scandal or turbulence to make her step aside
3. The "heavy recent storm" caused her problems - with a blackout
4. Sane response to political difficulties
For Rex to believe that rushing back from a vacation in Florida - with rumours abound on potential defections and caucus dissatisfaction - to quit - a few months after a convention wherein there was "solid support" - was a person following their own script is detached.
To believe that Dunderdale was not experiencing extreme turbulence following downed polls not poles - is detached.
To say that part of her misfortune was rolling blackouts from a "heavy recent storm" is detached and just out-in-out incorrect.
To say that the Premier's was a sane response to political difficulties - must mean she was daft. The easier way to deal with it was to listen to the loud voices of the people of Newfoundland AND Labrador telling her they did not like her direction. Only a less than sane person keeps banging their head of the same wall of resistance over and over again while expecting a different outcome.
Perhaps Rex Murphy should seek the PC leadership:
1. He displays arrogance
2. He likes to spin
3. He could care less what the people think - it's Newfoundland - not Newfoundland and Labrador
4. His dismissal of Labrador for the benefit of the Island of Newfoundland
Really Mr. Murphy if this is the best you can do - perhaps you should follow Ms. Dunderdale.
Get your pencils out and mark down how many times Murphy says Newfoundland or Newfoundlanders without any reference to Labrador. Despite the CBC's caption below the video: The National's Rex Murphy looks at Kathy Dunderdale's exit from the top post of the government of Newfoundland and Labrador. In case you missed his latest essay, click on the video above to watch. Murphy refuses to say Labrador.
If Mr. Murphy has a problem with the constitutional name change precipitated by the people of Newfoundland and Labrador - maybe he should tell us.
Now let's get to the content of his opinion on Premier Dunderdale's resignation. At least we know his is an opinion and not news - as Mr. McLeod of the Telegram likes to do.
He makes the following points:
1. Kathy Dunderdale following her own script on leaving
2. There was no political or personal scandal or turbulence to make her step aside
3. The "heavy recent storm" caused her problems - with a blackout
4. Sane response to political difficulties
For Rex to believe that rushing back from a vacation in Florida - with rumours abound on potential defections and caucus dissatisfaction - to quit - a few months after a convention wherein there was "solid support" - was a person following their own script is detached.
To believe that Dunderdale was not experiencing extreme turbulence following downed polls not poles - is detached.
To say that part of her misfortune was rolling blackouts from a "heavy recent storm" is detached and just out-in-out incorrect.
To say that the Premier's was a sane response to political difficulties - must mean she was daft. The easier way to deal with it was to listen to the loud voices of the people of Newfoundland AND Labrador telling her they did not like her direction. Only a less than sane person keeps banging their head of the same wall of resistance over and over again while expecting a different outcome.
Perhaps Rex Murphy should seek the PC leadership:
1. He displays arrogance
2. He likes to spin
3. He could care less what the people think - it's Newfoundland - not Newfoundland and Labrador
4. His dismissal of Labrador for the benefit of the Island of Newfoundland
Really Mr. Murphy if this is the best you can do - perhaps you should follow Ms. Dunderdale.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Rex Murphy Blows It in the National Post
Rex Murphy - Newfoundland and Labrador's Mano'Words stings critics of the Oil Sands while ignoring the elephant in the room. From there - Rex proceeds to demonstrate why he needs to come home more often and talk to the impacted people, their families, and their communities.
Below is an excerpt from Rex's Column in the National Post. Oil sands are a triumph for the human 'environment'.
In my view, this is the first and deepest justification for Fort Mac and the oil industry. Jobs are essential for the human environment — for a woman’s or a man’s sense of self-reliance and independence. By this, I mean the right to be able to obtain what you need for yourself and your family from what you have honestly earned. Being able, because you are employed, to stay off welfare, to turn aside from handouts — this is good for the environment of human dignity.
It mightn’t have the smug appeal of a panda face, and you will not see it on the vivid posters of the Sierra Club or Greenpeace, but having a job and earning a living is a great thing. Those who have been out of work know what a cruel “environment” that is — an emotional and psychological assault of frightful power. So we should celebrate some of the contributions that the oil sands have already made to the fundamental human environments of so many Canadians.
I have thought, and thought again, of my own province of Newfoundland, caught in the great calamity of the fisheries’ close-down in the 1990s, and how providential it was that “out West,” an oil economy was booming at the same time. Many Newfoundlanders (and Maritimers) migrated there in a time of real need.
Great social misery was averted because of the oil boom and Newfoundland’s related offshore developments: Thousands of divorces never happened, thousands of families didn’t break up, thousands of men and women didn’t fall into the trap of depression and worse, which so often attends long-term unemployment — because there was a great oil industry that allowed them the wherewithal to feed their families. It is a great story of modern Confederation: How Alberta, in particular, modified and mitigated the misery of Newfoundland — and other places.
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Let's start this way Rex - jobs at all costs is one of the main reasons your homeland has suffered. It is the reason we delivered raw resources to other provinces in Canada - while no secondary processing occurred.
Next Rex - your idea that human 'environment' consists primarily of the ability to get a job - be self-reliant - and stay off welfare is ignorance at its finest. Bring on the asbestos right Rex? There are concerns of the human 'environment' - Rex - that include our children's right to clean water, air, and a safe food supply. When our parents are gluttonous of resources regardless of how they are extracted, developed, or utilized so we as the children can guarantee that our family has income - does come at a price. Newfoundlanders and Labradorians who were 'employed' during the development of the Upper Churchill were happily employed, self-reliant and off welfare - yet left 100 years of misery in its wake. If developed, utilized, and contracted properly - your homies would be enjoying an additional $Billion a year - but hey it was great that we employed a few while it was being built.
Finally Rex - the fisheries example you use on our collective back - is the one that takes your entire argument and destroys it. You say the Oil Sands have been a savior to Newfoundland and Labrador after the shut-down of the fisheries in the 1990's. You use the worst man-made environmental disaster on our planet (the loss of the ground stocks) to show how great it is that we have yet another environment to potentially destroy. Perfect Rex - that is very sound judgement.
On this issue of the Oil Sands preventing thousands of divorces, thousands of family break-ups, thousands of people suffering from depression, and worse outcomes - here you are most ignorant.
There have been too many divorces - thousands of family break-ups, significant cases of depression and worse because they had to move away from Newfoundland and Labrador. Rex - people had to leave their homes - now worthless - as the community essentially died - people left their aging parents to the life of a private or public care home as they were not here to care for them (as is the rural way), children had one parent as many could not afford to move the family, and yes oh yes there was and is depression abound. That's not to mention how many of our people have lost their young lives tragically either on the job or on the great Canadian highway on their way to the job. These children who have left with their parents are lost to us as is their employable futures and the tax base.
As we enter into an aging demographic and retiring Newfoundlanders and Labradorians migrate home to live out their lives - they leave all their productive tax in Alberta.
Maybe it's time to move home Rex - get assimilated - and then rewrite this column.
Now that you have found the oil sands - keep looking to find the tar sands.
Below is an excerpt from Rex's Column in the National Post. Oil sands are a triumph for the human 'environment'.
In my view, this is the first and deepest justification for Fort Mac and the oil industry. Jobs are essential for the human environment — for a woman’s or a man’s sense of self-reliance and independence. By this, I mean the right to be able to obtain what you need for yourself and your family from what you have honestly earned. Being able, because you are employed, to stay off welfare, to turn aside from handouts — this is good for the environment of human dignity.
It mightn’t have the smug appeal of a panda face, and you will not see it on the vivid posters of the Sierra Club or Greenpeace, but having a job and earning a living is a great thing. Those who have been out of work know what a cruel “environment” that is — an emotional and psychological assault of frightful power. So we should celebrate some of the contributions that the oil sands have already made to the fundamental human environments of so many Canadians.
I have thought, and thought again, of my own province of Newfoundland, caught in the great calamity of the fisheries’ close-down in the 1990s, and how providential it was that “out West,” an oil economy was booming at the same time. Many Newfoundlanders (and Maritimers) migrated there in a time of real need.
Great social misery was averted because of the oil boom and Newfoundland’s related offshore developments: Thousands of divorces never happened, thousands of families didn’t break up, thousands of men and women didn’t fall into the trap of depression and worse, which so often attends long-term unemployment — because there was a great oil industry that allowed them the wherewithal to feed their families. It is a great story of modern Confederation: How Alberta, in particular, modified and mitigated the misery of Newfoundland — and other places.
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Let's start this way Rex - jobs at all costs is one of the main reasons your homeland has suffered. It is the reason we delivered raw resources to other provinces in Canada - while no secondary processing occurred.
Next Rex - your idea that human 'environment' consists primarily of the ability to get a job - be self-reliant - and stay off welfare is ignorance at its finest. Bring on the asbestos right Rex? There are concerns of the human 'environment' - Rex - that include our children's right to clean water, air, and a safe food supply. When our parents are gluttonous of resources regardless of how they are extracted, developed, or utilized so we as the children can guarantee that our family has income - does come at a price. Newfoundlanders and Labradorians who were 'employed' during the development of the Upper Churchill were happily employed, self-reliant and off welfare - yet left 100 years of misery in its wake. If developed, utilized, and contracted properly - your homies would be enjoying an additional $Billion a year - but hey it was great that we employed a few while it was being built.
Finally Rex - the fisheries example you use on our collective back - is the one that takes your entire argument and destroys it. You say the Oil Sands have been a savior to Newfoundland and Labrador after the shut-down of the fisheries in the 1990's. You use the worst man-made environmental disaster on our planet (the loss of the ground stocks) to show how great it is that we have yet another environment to potentially destroy. Perfect Rex - that is very sound judgement.
On this issue of the Oil Sands preventing thousands of divorces, thousands of family break-ups, thousands of people suffering from depression, and worse outcomes - here you are most ignorant.
There have been too many divorces - thousands of family break-ups, significant cases of depression and worse because they had to move away from Newfoundland and Labrador. Rex - people had to leave their homes - now worthless - as the community essentially died - people left their aging parents to the life of a private or public care home as they were not here to care for them (as is the rural way), children had one parent as many could not afford to move the family, and yes oh yes there was and is depression abound. That's not to mention how many of our people have lost their young lives tragically either on the job or on the great Canadian highway on their way to the job. These children who have left with their parents are lost to us as is their employable futures and the tax base.
As we enter into an aging demographic and retiring Newfoundlanders and Labradorians migrate home to live out their lives - they leave all their productive tax in Alberta.
Maybe it's time to move home Rex - get assimilated - and then rewrite this column.
Now that you have found the oil sands - keep looking to find the tar sands.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Sesquipedalian Rex Murphy pontificates on the "silent crisis" in Rural NL Get off your arse Rex!
The best example of actions speak louder than words is Rex Murphy. His discussions with himself are renowned and really for most a form of amusement. Murphy has made his way in Upper Canada by simply talking - but then again he is not alone there - that's the problem.
Below you will find a story from VOCM news today. In it Murphy continues to talk about what others should do - but does nothing - himself - to fix the problems in Newfoundland and Labrador.
He pontificates about what opposition parties should concentrate on - in order to stop the rubber-stamping of the status quo.
First - it appears Murphy missed the entire election and that his media colleagues were pontificating that the Liberals were only focusing on the rural divide and problems in outport communities. Somehow Rex missed that.
As a Rhodes Scholar - Mr. Murphy - might like to get his hands dirty and do some of the work required to correct the problems. Perhaps Mr. Murphy would shut-up talking about it and do something. Perhaps Mr. Murphy should leave Upper Canada and take up permanent residence here in the province - then make a living by developing and implementing progressive policy.
Rex should spend some of his time explaining - in plain English - what he would do to correct the fishery - without fighting with Ottawa. Did you miss something Rex? Ottawa or the feds are responsible for the collapse of the stocks and it is costing our rural people and their communities over a billion dollars a year. Perhaps Rex would like to address the inequities of the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act (equalization) - by explaining why the program is designed for Quebec. Perhaps Rex would like to address the hydro-electric sector in our province and discuss how ludicrous it is for us to focus on "greening up" Canada - when we already pump 5,000 MW's from the Upper Churchill to Canada.
Newfoundland and Labrador is in a "silent" crisis Murphy says. Nothing silent about it Rex - however people such as yourself who would rather moan about it instead of rolling up your sleeves - do not help the situation.
While his words are sexy to other sesquipedalian commentators - his virility weakens when actions are required.
Murphy knows full well how difficult it is to fight a dictator - he tried and lost when he challenged Joey and ran as a PC. He sought and achieved a Tory nomination but then withdrew from lack of funds. Murphy knows.
We have many people in this province who fight this battle on the ground daily. It is not easy - nor is it simple. But rural communities have been front and center in our discussions and we are fighting hard for them.
Murphy would be better off examining how inaccurate polls were used to diminish Liberal votes and to demoralize voters generally. He would be better off examining the media coverage - of which he is a part - that exacerbated the questionable polling and rendered the election process useless.
If he were in the outports today - he might hear the following - get off your arse - stop whining - and do something about it. Go yell at Stephen Harper and educate the Upper Canadian elite about the abuse of Newfoundland and Labrador within the "con"federation.
VOCM story below:
One of the sharpest political pundits in the country suggests it's time the province's opposition parties start addressing the questions raised by the depopulation of rural Newfoundland. In Saturday's National Post, Rex Murphy breaks down the results of the provincial election and concludes that Newfoundland and Labrador is a province in denial. Murphy says the province is facing a crisis and that the Liberals and NDP have to build policy that is "more than about oil or fights with the federal government." Murphy says the two opposition parties have to work towards building an identity that appeals to the entire province, and develop policy that addresses the "crisis" that is being created by the evacuation of the outports and shrinking economic activity outside the St. John's oil boom. Murphy says Newfoundland is in a silent crisis that began with the closure of the inshore commercial fishery 20 years ago. Murphy says the fact that none of the parties had the courage to address the questions posed by that crisis, may partly explain why voters as he puts it; "simply rubber-stamped the status quo" in last week's election.
Below you will find a story from VOCM news today. In it Murphy continues to talk about what others should do - but does nothing - himself - to fix the problems in Newfoundland and Labrador.
He pontificates about what opposition parties should concentrate on - in order to stop the rubber-stamping of the status quo.
First - it appears Murphy missed the entire election and that his media colleagues were pontificating that the Liberals were only focusing on the rural divide and problems in outport communities. Somehow Rex missed that.
As a Rhodes Scholar - Mr. Murphy - might like to get his hands dirty and do some of the work required to correct the problems. Perhaps Mr. Murphy would shut-up talking about it and do something. Perhaps Mr. Murphy should leave Upper Canada and take up permanent residence here in the province - then make a living by developing and implementing progressive policy.
Rex should spend some of his time explaining - in plain English - what he would do to correct the fishery - without fighting with Ottawa. Did you miss something Rex? Ottawa or the feds are responsible for the collapse of the stocks and it is costing our rural people and their communities over a billion dollars a year. Perhaps Rex would like to address the inequities of the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act (equalization) - by explaining why the program is designed for Quebec. Perhaps Rex would like to address the hydro-electric sector in our province and discuss how ludicrous it is for us to focus on "greening up" Canada - when we already pump 5,000 MW's from the Upper Churchill to Canada.
Newfoundland and Labrador is in a "silent" crisis Murphy says. Nothing silent about it Rex - however people such as yourself who would rather moan about it instead of rolling up your sleeves - do not help the situation.
While his words are sexy to other sesquipedalian commentators - his virility weakens when actions are required.
Murphy knows full well how difficult it is to fight a dictator - he tried and lost when he challenged Joey and ran as a PC. He sought and achieved a Tory nomination but then withdrew from lack of funds. Murphy knows.
We have many people in this province who fight this battle on the ground daily. It is not easy - nor is it simple. But rural communities have been front and center in our discussions and we are fighting hard for them.
Murphy would be better off examining how inaccurate polls were used to diminish Liberal votes and to demoralize voters generally. He would be better off examining the media coverage - of which he is a part - that exacerbated the questionable polling and rendered the election process useless.
If he were in the outports today - he might hear the following - get off your arse - stop whining - and do something about it. Go yell at Stephen Harper and educate the Upper Canadian elite about the abuse of Newfoundland and Labrador within the "con"federation.
VOCM story below:
One of the sharpest political pundits in the country suggests it's time the province's opposition parties start addressing the questions raised by the depopulation of rural Newfoundland. In Saturday's National Post, Rex Murphy breaks down the results of the provincial election and concludes that Newfoundland and Labrador is a province in denial. Murphy says the province is facing a crisis and that the Liberals and NDP have to build policy that is "more than about oil or fights with the federal government." Murphy says the two opposition parties have to work towards building an identity that appeals to the entire province, and develop policy that addresses the "crisis" that is being created by the evacuation of the outports and shrinking economic activity outside the St. John's oil boom. Murphy says Newfoundland is in a silent crisis that began with the closure of the inshore commercial fishery 20 years ago. Murphy says the fact that none of the parties had the courage to address the questions posed by that crisis, may partly explain why voters as he puts it; "simply rubber-stamped the status quo" in last week's election.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Rex Murphy ponders the Riots in Vancouver - I say expect More under Harper
Rex Murphy had his say on the Vancouver Riot. Please Click HERE
After listening to Rex - here's the only reply I have.
It was absolutely awful - you reap what you sow - remember this is exactly how the government acted at the G8 G20. If Rex replaced the pictures with that event - we could review how ordinary citizens holding a peaceful and legal protest were treated like they were in a third world dictatorship. People rebel against such government tyranny.
Is this an excuse? No! Should we expect it? Probably. Stephen Harper will strip all pride from the people of this country and people without pride do awful things.
When the Prime Minister is in contempt - what should we expect of citizens?
When the Prime Minister lies - what should we expect of citizens?
When the Prime Minister ignores the law - what should we expect of citizens?
When the Prime Minister travels to Boston on our dime - in our jet to watch a hockey game while his Minister of Finance is delivering news of massive program cuts - what should we expect of citizens?
Take a long look at Vancouver - Canada - this is just the tip of the right-wing fanatic revolution.
After listening to Rex - here's the only reply I have.
It was absolutely awful - you reap what you sow - remember this is exactly how the government acted at the G8 G20. If Rex replaced the pictures with that event - we could review how ordinary citizens holding a peaceful and legal protest were treated like they were in a third world dictatorship. People rebel against such government tyranny.
Is this an excuse? No! Should we expect it? Probably. Stephen Harper will strip all pride from the people of this country and people without pride do awful things.
When the Prime Minister is in contempt - what should we expect of citizens?
When the Prime Minister lies - what should we expect of citizens?
When the Prime Minister ignores the law - what should we expect of citizens?
When the Prime Minister travels to Boston on our dime - in our jet to watch a hockey game while his Minister of Finance is delivering news of massive program cuts - what should we expect of citizens?
Take a long look at Vancouver - Canada - this is just the tip of the right-wing fanatic revolution.
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