I am an owner of an independent pharmacy in rural Newfoundland.
Along with other rural pharmacy owners, we employ over 1,000 people in areas that have the highest unemployment rate in Canada.
Starting earlier this year, the Dunderdale government has enacted policies that will carve out tens of millions of dollars from our businesses.
Not only will this result in job losses in areas that can ill-afford to lose them, it has, in my case, forced me to shelve plans for an expansion of my business that would have resulted in more employment.
Yet, this government sees fit to award $3.5 million to a company that will produce a whopping 35 jobs.
To add insult to injury, these jobs will be in St. John's, which has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country.
This government may talk of supporting rural Newfoundland, but their actions betray them.
Darryl Kendell
Springdale
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"....government has enacted policies that will carve out tens of millions of dollars from our businesses...." As vague and unsubstantiated as that statement is, this letter certainly does not promote any misguided impression that the filling of medical prescriptions is anything at all like an open, free-market dealing between willing buyers and sellers....so how is it that you are so ignorant of that? And as far as rural Newfoundland "dying" goes, I hardly think that protecting and subsidizing pharmacists more is a sensible , useful or relevant course of action. If there isn't enough business to run a monopoly health care business somewhere, then guess what...?!