Taking stock: Is rural Newfoundland better off without cod?

NoWay

- July 2, 2012 at 18:37:44

Are you saying other countries can still fish off the shores of NL but the average home grown Newfoundlander can't fish, not even for a meal? Anyone with half a brain can figure out it was "those others" who caused the problem to start with. Somebody needs to step up and put an end this before the fish disappear forever. History is our only teacher but learn from it or you'll be bound to repeat it.

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Joseph McGrath

- July 2, 2012 at 16:33:18

There are so many changes in NL over the past 30 years it is hard to believe.But looking at other areas of Canada we see great change as well.I truly believe that a vast generation of children have been lost mainly because of aboration and birth control but my oponion on that is private to me.We also live in a province where people are measured by "STUFF"they possess and not their contribution to the Province or its people.Moral values are in steep decline and have been replaced by a rush to obtain "STUFF"anyway possible.Justice be dammed.Kids have been given the right to do most anything they please wiithout fear of penalty.The funny part is those living in fancy houses with "STUFF ".are a pay cheque or two from financial collapse.Time wiill adjust this.People in the outport communities lost their ability to harvest resourses and now rely on make work projects and EI.Not in ever case but a good many and it is considered a right.We see immigrants coming to the Province and taking an ever increasing lot of professional jobs.That is ok but it is still a cultural shock to many of us who never saw this to any great extent before.I think that NL will be ok as long as oil and minerals last and then it will decend once more into a barron neglected province.Our politicans are mostly interested in their big paycheck,their pension,their exotic travels and eventual 6 month retiement time outside Canada.We will be a province of seniors housed in large seniors homes waiting to pass on.The fasting growing industry will soon be death and its required funeral support services.We are not alone by any means as the immigeration into Canada is about to turn things on its head and where that leads is a question for those who are around at the time.I pine for the NL we once were in many ways,not all,but alas the average native NL person living here will eventually be almost extinct.Pity!!!!!!!

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David

- July 2, 2012 at 15:43:20

There's nothing more smug than a Newfoundlander who wins the lottery. And that's exactly what all you clueless 'nouveau riche' Townies now act like. If you can't or won't show any compassion or empathy for those who didn't get the same pure dumb luck that landed in your stupid laps, at least have the courtesy to shut up. Your idiotic, inflated opinions of your momnet in the sun are nothing short of sickening.

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Proud Newfoundlander

- July 2, 2012 at 15:21:10

In the greater scheme of things this was helpful. It took more people away from the handout mentality and helped to shut down some very remote, expensive communities. The rest of the island subsidizes the utilities and infrastructure in these places, so it gives the province more money to spend on other things such as education and hospital beds. Whatever we can do to stop people from begging for handouts from the government is a good thing.

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Harold

- July 2, 2012 at 12:22:46

everyone has a comment and most comments are negative but very few have any answers and those who try to come up with solutions are quickly shot down. maybe some care, compassion and a little understanding could go a long ways to helping those in need and in return that may also help us who are more fortunate.

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robert tucker

- July 2, 2012 at 10:56:10

It is ironic that the very industry that helped our province is the industry that is destroying it! The unfortunate thing is that politician after politican has used the industry to get elected. The fact is that when the Peckford Govt. saw the fishing industry as a social issue rather than an economic one, then the political tide ruined the fishing industry. It helped to create falsehoods, and the ordinary worker used it too, just the same as now the oil industry in Alberta. Crosbie , of course closed the cod fishery, but still the spanish and other european nations are allowed to still fish for cod albeit with Quotas, which are a joke! Now the Chinese, and the Japaneese and the seals are involved. So we'll blmae it on the seals! As for the ecomony of thee small villages, its an evolution thing! Young people in search of a different life style will move away! You can blame it all on the world media/life style or greed, but thats the way it is. Now the fishermen's union sees it that Govt should step up tothe plate and help keep these villages and the fishing industry going and they have a reason for wanting it. Rural anyway will be hurting. Oshawa is hurting and soon the Feds/ont. Govt will be handing out grants to the car industry. Fifty yrs from now perhaps Alberta will feel the pinch like the farmers are out west now! Rural Canada is hurting!

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saelcove

- July 2, 2012 at 10:50:53

Time to stop living in the past

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