Not necessarily a proud Canadian

Tom Griffiths

- September 7th, 2010 at 07:48:37

As one of those NFLDers who had to leave home to work and live elsewhere i can share with you a more personal side to this situation. I have lost many family members including my father over my time AWAY and its lead to a disconnect within my family that can never be repaired.My families history is lost and that's something that can't be regained,so alot more than NL 's resourses have been traded away, sometime much more valuable is lost forever and this may sound like whining to some but those same people probably still live in the place they grew up surounded by their family and what Eugene from town said is very true as well,NewFoundland has not fared well as part of Canada and no one seem to get a rats behind.

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Eugene from Town

- September 5th, 2010 at 11:43:48

To Badmelli: while it takes two to tango, in a confederation like Canadas, the federal government holds all the cards. It has been successive Canadian governments who have supported Quebec's right (privelege?) to rape N&L economically; it's been successive governments in Ottawa that have used our fishery as a negotiating tool with other countries, granting access to a resource with no regard to sustaining it; it is Ottawa that arbitrarily chose not to grant the same rights under the Atlantic Accord that Nova Scotia enjoys. Point taken, that the slew of sleveens we elect generally only want the golden handshake of a publically funded pension, but saying that this (our poor state of affairs) is a symptom of local corruption and divorced from Ottawa's involvement belies a myopic viewpoint that I'm sure undercuts your actual intelligence.

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M in AB

- September 5th, 2010 at 10:55:19

I'm afraid you just sound like a bitter person who isn't willing to really partticipate in helping NL proceed to the next level where we need to be. I am a Newfoundlander working in AB and have for a several years, but am now going back home to work in the same industry I am working at here in AB, the oil industry. I am certain that a good many more Newfoundlanders will be returning home soon to do the same. I'm thankful for the work I got in AB, and now, even more thankful for the opportunity to come back home and do as well financially as I did in AB in my home province. Yes, in NL we have WCB, Welfare, Old Age Pensions, etc. as you mentioned, but they are needed and are availaable anywhere in Canada; and, we're fortunate that they are offered to Canadians. As for make work projects, unfortunately, they are needed as well. No place is perfect, but NL and Canada get my vote every time!

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doug

- September 5th, 2010 at 10:42:46

Your daughters probably made the right decision to leave and find work else where, if they worked here they would have earned a minimum wage for their efforts and depending on the type of work, it may have been short term employment. There is one word that describes a job in Newfoundland "NEPOTISM".

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badameli

- September 5th, 2010 at 07:43:56

I don't see how this is a Canada issue, but an issue with how Newfoundlanders relate to Canada - more of a "what can I get out of it now" rather than trying to build for the future. There's lots of rhetoric of how Canada takes and takes from Newfoundland, and the response isn't to protect and develop, but to me seems to be to take back: "Since 1949, we’ve had make-work programs to collect employment insurance, MP pensions, MHA pensions, government workers’ pensions, welfare, Canada pensions, workers’ compensation, old age pensions and to pay crooked politicians with “honourable” before their names." , and that's a cycle that has hurt the province over years, that has more to say of the character of the province than the character of the country.

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