The most significant development this week was arguably Premier Wakeham not insisting that he will hold a referendum. This is not shocking in that referendums are typically for constitutional matters or other major changes to democratic institutions - I cannot think of any other referendums about commercial agreements between crown corporations. Nevertheless, the shift is important because it indicates he is serious about wanting a deal and he feels he is in the driver’s seat and does not want to relinquish that position.
It’s trivia. Like I said, the only people talking about are liberals and Ron. Doesn’t matter if one sees it positive and the other is negative. It’s still trivia. Positive trivia or negative trivia is still trivia.
Winston is correct in my opinion. A plan followed by a strategy are needed.
There is a major interest of transparency with respect to corporate activities when the public interest is involved, especially when the public may be asked to render a decision. When do commercial interests usually afforded to private companies in a competitive market environment apply to public utilities which often operate under a monopolistic non-competitive environment? Help me out here.
The IRC correctly indetified key steps or elements going forward, all of which are missing and, in the case of a economic development strategy, not easy to come up with in a few days.
Their governance approach is also crucial but it would need an overhaul of the NALCOR board and senior leasdership to execute successfully.
Transparency is a chronic problem across government and unfortunately the HQ pattern is now here. Folks know about one minor example from a CP story last week but the new book from Quebec - Maitres Chez Eux - has a complete lack of transparency by HQ at the centre of it. Despite attempts to gain access to the corporate archive on issues now more than 50 years old, the researchers got nothing. Absolutely nothing. Complete silence.
The special relationship between the 8th and NALCOR is an old one but it has grown cancerous in this century. It has metastisized now. Everything is infected. The default setting for most officials is secrecy or lying or both.
The word "God's Unchosen People", a reference ti the bad luck of the people of this province, and opposite to the Bible claiming that the Jews were God's Chosen People (except of course the many times when when God got angry with them, or they made bad choices, they were exiled, their temple destroyed, they killed their prophets, had no love or compassion for their enemies etc). And too, for me, a little reference to Labrador " which the French explored said was "the land that God gave to Cain", and why God was so unfavorable to Cain is interesting too, as to God's character.
Most of all it me thing of the title of one of my father's journals titled " A Forgotten tribe of Naskaupi Indians Now on Labrador" That journal tell of event in1939, when he operated a saw mill at the mouth of the deep bay that runs in, about 50 miles from the coast , near Hopedale.
WW2 had broken out a few months before and all but 2 of his 10 men at he sawmill and crew of 40 fisherman on the coast made it home by Christmas. He managed to travel inland with the aid of Inuit and dog teams in January to rescue his 2 men there. Then they continue the mill operation all winter with Inuit worker and bringing his food in from his storehouse on the coast, by regular dogs teams.
Later that winter a family, men , women and children, of Innu arrived there, in starving condition. They were on their way to the coast to seek aid from the Inuit. They had failed to find caribou inland and had to travel to the coast. They set up tents and after a few weeks and regained strength, as food was plentiful here at the mill site, and too, by their own hunting, of birds with bow and arrow, they all left again and travelled inland. A trip far inland a week later in search of them , they saw no trace of them.
The pitiful condition of the Innu, and children, poorly dressed for the cold temperatures, and their rugged and dangerous way of life, must of been the cause of the title with words "Forsaken" . With the Great Depression than still on, and conditions in Nfld bad , and Labrador, for both settlers and Inuit worse, but none matched the conditions and hardship of the Innu people, long neglected by Nfld, Quebec and Canadian governments. This incident was a few pages of the the 46 page journal of that winter's event, as Britain had declared war on Germany, and it quickly changed the situation on this island.
As to this piece, it's classic Hollett: shows in detail how the strategy of our politicians here are similar to Elmer Fudd, where the rabbit is PQ and HQ. Entertaining style and a lot of chuckles, and straight talk. A morning delight to read, yet so sad to grasp the reality of it all. No Plan , no Strategy.
God's Unchosen People plays on a number of things, not least the sense of Newfoundland exceptionalism lampooned quietly in Colony of Unrequited Dreams and the letter noting the absence of any mention of Newfoundland in a book on Peruvian songbirds.
There is another sense to it as well, in the way that Tony falls back on this nonsense about the bad deals, which inevitably tie back to how we are always getting shagged over by foreigners. It is just a constant excuse. We are not and if we were shagged over it is more likely by our own, whether deliberately as in Muskrat or from stupidity as in Churchill 2: the Real Give-away. And in 1969, we were not shagged over. We just made up a story that we were.
The most significant development this week was arguably Premier Wakeham not insisting that he will hold a referendum. This is not shocking in that referendums are typically for constitutional matters or other major changes to democratic institutions - I cannot think of any other referendums about commercial agreements between crown corporations. Nevertheless, the shift is important because it indicates he is serious about wanting a deal and he feels he is in the driver’s seat and does not want to relinquish that position.
The only people who think that way are Liberals - because it is a slack-arsed talking point for them - and Ron Penney.
Do you not think it was a significant shift? I think it was a positive change whereas Ron feels otherwise, but we both see it as a change.
It’s trivia. Like I said, the only people talking about are liberals and Ron. Doesn’t matter if one sees it positive and the other is negative. It’s still trivia. Positive trivia or negative trivia is still trivia.
Winston is correct in my opinion. A plan followed by a strategy are needed.
There is a major interest of transparency with respect to corporate activities when the public interest is involved, especially when the public may be asked to render a decision. When do commercial interests usually afforded to private companies in a competitive market environment apply to public utilities which often operate under a monopolistic non-competitive environment? Help me out here.
Only help I can give is complete agreement.
The IRC correctly indetified key steps or elements going forward, all of which are missing and, in the case of a economic development strategy, not easy to come up with in a few days.
Their governance approach is also crucial but it would need an overhaul of the NALCOR board and senior leasdership to execute successfully.
Transparency is a chronic problem across government and unfortunately the HQ pattern is now here. Folks know about one minor example from a CP story last week but the new book from Quebec - Maitres Chez Eux - has a complete lack of transparency by HQ at the centre of it. Despite attempts to gain access to the corporate archive on issues now more than 50 years old, the researchers got nothing. Absolutely nothing. Complete silence.
The special relationship between the 8th and NALCOR is an old one but it has grown cancerous in this century. It has metastisized now. Everything is infected. The default setting for most officials is secrecy or lying or both.
The word "God's Unchosen People", a reference ti the bad luck of the people of this province, and opposite to the Bible claiming that the Jews were God's Chosen People (except of course the many times when when God got angry with them, or they made bad choices, they were exiled, their temple destroyed, they killed their prophets, had no love or compassion for their enemies etc). And too, for me, a little reference to Labrador " which the French explored said was "the land that God gave to Cain", and why God was so unfavorable to Cain is interesting too, as to God's character.
Most of all it me thing of the title of one of my father's journals titled " A Forgotten tribe of Naskaupi Indians Now on Labrador" That journal tell of event in1939, when he operated a saw mill at the mouth of the deep bay that runs in, about 50 miles from the coast , near Hopedale.
WW2 had broken out a few months before and all but 2 of his 10 men at he sawmill and crew of 40 fisherman on the coast made it home by Christmas. He managed to travel inland with the aid of Inuit and dog teams in January to rescue his 2 men there. Then they continue the mill operation all winter with Inuit worker and bringing his food in from his storehouse on the coast, by regular dogs teams.
Later that winter a family, men , women and children, of Innu arrived there, in starving condition. They were on their way to the coast to seek aid from the Inuit. They had failed to find caribou inland and had to travel to the coast. They set up tents and after a few weeks and regained strength, as food was plentiful here at the mill site, and too, by their own hunting, of birds with bow and arrow, they all left again and travelled inland. A trip far inland a week later in search of them , they saw no trace of them.
The pitiful condition of the Innu, and children, poorly dressed for the cold temperatures, and their rugged and dangerous way of life, must of been the cause of the title with words "Forsaken" . With the Great Depression than still on, and conditions in Nfld bad , and Labrador, for both settlers and Inuit worse, but none matched the conditions and hardship of the Innu people, long neglected by Nfld, Quebec and Canadian governments. This incident was a few pages of the the 46 page journal of that winter's event, as Britain had declared war on Germany, and it quickly changed the situation on this island.
As to this piece, it's classic Hollett: shows in detail how the strategy of our politicians here are similar to Elmer Fudd, where the rabbit is PQ and HQ. Entertaining style and a lot of chuckles, and straight talk. A morning delight to read, yet so sad to grasp the reality of it all. No Plan , no Strategy.
The cutline on the picture at the top.
Lloyd and Not-Bryce.
The gems are right there from the start.
God's Unchosen People plays on a number of things, not least the sense of Newfoundland exceptionalism lampooned quietly in Colony of Unrequited Dreams and the letter noting the absence of any mention of Newfoundland in a book on Peruvian songbirds.
There is another sense to it as well, in the way that Tony falls back on this nonsense about the bad deals, which inevitably tie back to how we are always getting shagged over by foreigners. It is just a constant excuse. We are not and if we were shagged over it is more likely by our own, whether deliberately as in Muskrat or from stupidity as in Churchill 2: the Real Give-away. And in 1969, we were not shagged over. We just made up a story that we were.