Cooked Goose. Baked Guv'mint.
Fernando meets Dazed and Confused
A 36 year old Innu man with a personal history of addiction is in jail facing charges for burning down a bar in the ironically named town of Happy Valley - Goose Bay. Ironic because these days the town is far from happy, hasn't been happy for a long while, and the crowd running this place cannot deal with to make folks at least less troubled.
Keeping the public safe is a basic job of government. But the best that public safety minister Bernie Davis could offer amid all the platitudes someone in government’s DoubleThink Division wrote for him to announce government’s panicked, spasm response to public demonstrations about rampant crime in Happy Valley-Goose Bay was that the government had “anecdotal” information about what was going on in the central Labrador town. People needed to report crimes, Davis encouraged, as if it was ordinary people's fault his department wasn't on the ball. He also allowed maybe the guv’mint could get sheriff's officers or corrections officers to do prisoner escort in Goose like they do in Sin Jawns rather than force the Mounties to do it. That would let police officers in Goose Bay do police stuff, but the change would beg the question of why the guv'mint crowd over the years thought it better to have the cops not be cops.
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