Cod and who pays?

Below is a response to my fisheries blog yesterday. I believe it is very important to dialogue back and forth agreeing or disagreeing - in an effort to find solutions to significant problems. Please read the response by a reader and my response to it. 

Response

Welcome back Sue. While I love your passion for our province I feel your bent about any of our provincial leaders ability to control or do anything about the fishery is misplaced as we only control processing licences.
Since the fishery is a national/international common property resource and the majority of Canada's population lives either in ON/QU or Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver for all intensive purposes we have no say in how the fishery is managed or controlled. In fact I submit to you that all of the national parties use it as a bargaining chip to better the majority of the population through DFAIT.

Until we start electing Independent federal MP's nothing will change because it is essentially an

National/International Tragedy of our Commons at the hands of our

Tyranny of the majority political system

where by any and all of the national party MP's we elect to represent us on the federal stage will continue to toe their national party lines of doing what is in the best interest of the majority of the population to get their national party elected or re-elected.

We need a veto on fisheries issues in the national party cabinets,and NAFO. Even if we have to do it in conjunction with the maritime provinces.

Wanna make a bet that the 2013 UNLOS deadline will come and pass with the flemish cap being given away and or ownership and control since we already have custodial management being the adjacent state just we all of hte national parties choose not to act on it.


Response to the Response

You will notice that I continue to state the federal government is responsible for the mismanagement and therefore responsible for compensation.
Provincial leaders have the responsibility to go after the feds if they believe we have been wronged.
The federal government is not going to pursue itself.
If you were wronged personally or in business due to mismanagement of a responsibility of the other party you are the only one that could take an action.
While the provincial leaders do not have jurisdiction over many areas (confederation) all provincial leaders fight for fairness and equity for their province.
This case is unique - the feds manage our fish stocks unlike manage the weather in the case of western farming losses year over year. And even though the farms are not the responsibility of the feds (unlike our fishery) they are still compensated year over year.
Regardless of who goes to Ottawa - the federal system will never work for our province.


It is time that this province sought and received compensation for the following:
Loss of economic value of the ground-stocks for ten years.(first ten years tags encarp)
Loss of population = loss of transfer payments (not equalization)
Revenue to the province for increased costs due to increased need for seniors care (once provided for by the moved away family members)
Compensation directly to rural communities for outrageous losses of property value and tax base
Compensation in the form of increased federal presence in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Stupidity

Do you want a definition?

Figure this out - and then figure out how groups like the Humane Society and the likes of Rebecca Aldworth get away with it.

Read the following about joining a boycott to protest our Seal Harvest:

Marie Weir, general manager of Cy's Crab House in Buffalo Grove, which has also joined the boycott, said costs may be slightly higher to buy fish from elsewhere in the world, but the options are out there.

Even the famous Canadian snow crabs can be replaced with those from Russia and Alaska, she said.

"I think it's a good thing to do to help out," Weir said of the boycott. "Everybody in the world thinks they can do anything they want, and then when the world falls apart, it's never their fault. Look at global warming."

This snippet was taken from a story in the Daily Herald in Illinois.

This individual and company is going to buy seafood from other countries despite the price - despite our Canada - USA "connection" because the Humane Society told them the seal hunt was cruel.

This is out of America - suffering through tens of millions of recalled toys - toothpaste - tires - and medical devices/medications from China - yet no boycott of Chinese products - in fact the great American corporate elite flocks to Asia to get dirt cheap labour - in countries with no labour standards or human rights. Their precious stock markets filled with corporations paying children slave wages and working them endless hours - so they can deliver to America - tainted - unsafe - and some cases deadly products. China gets the Olympics and American investment - we get a kick in the guts because we harvest - humanely and sustainably - seal.

That - people - is the definition of stupidity - and probably why an NFL superstar can illegally fight and kill dogs - while "fans" try to forgive him.

That is why the slaughter houses in the United States are not open for unscheduled visits by animal activists - unlike the seal harvest in Canada which is prosecuted in the open on ice flows and waters of the North Atlantic.