Well if you want to re-negociate Churchill, maybe we could renegotiate the whole of Labrador...
The british take it from us to give it to you in 1763... As a matter of fact they were no british citizen living on that side of the coast at that period. They were French settlement tough. They then give it back to us in 1774... Then an imperial commission gave it back to you in 1809... And up to these day scholar are still arguing if Labrador belong to you or to us.
Oh, and by the way you can have Churchill back if you want. Of course you may have some problem trying to carry all that electricity to the US market without our powerline and right of passage. Churchill ain't the cash cow it used to be. We have way better complex now and more in the work at the moment. I know I work for Hydro-Quebec.[/quote]
You forgot to mention that even when Labrador was owned by Quebec, the Governor based there mostly ignored it. It fell to the RN ships ( based out of St. John's) to keep law and order in the area, which is mainly why it fell to Newfoundland later on.
That's the problem, Newfoundland has to give Quebec tons of money to let us build powerlines across the province, but Alberta is legally allowed to build its pipelines anywhere (look it up, folks).Why not give us the same deal?
And as to the Upper Churchill not being a cash cow...the contract Newfoundland is currently in (thanks to the Liberals, actually) manages to net NL 35 million a year from that cash cow.... while Quebec gets 2 billion. 2 billion, every year. C'mon, that's a substantial amount of moolah, for Newfoundland if not for you. If you don't want it fork it over, we'll take it back.
"It is not the governments role to create jobs for you"
It's also not the Government's job to give away our primary resources to other countries, is it? And why is Federal aid to Newfoundland a handout, but that 50 million given to the Softwood lumber industry in BC a... what? "Government action" on a "real Canadian issue"? Come on.
"go somewhere were there are jobs"
Not as easy as you think when you have a house, boat and family to care for. An average NL family can get the money to send the father away to work, but he lives in a crowded apartment or work-camp and sends every available dime back home to support the family. They can't afford to bring up the whole family and live on the mainland, so what do they do? Drown the wife and kids in the harbour?
And don't bother about selling the house. At the moment there's a beautiful Victorian style house in Grand Bank, excellent condition on the Market. 5 bedroom, wraparound patio, huge lawn and meadow, perfect view of the sea. A realtor recently assessed it and stated that it would fetch a price of about 250-300,000 in St. John's, but since it's in an outport, the owners have had to come down from their asking price of 40,000, and there are still no buyers. You can't sell property for any worthwhile money, so you can't build up assets to move away. Really, would anyone with a family want to take away their children from a clean environment, large and comfortable house and safe neighbourhood to live like squatters in a seedy Toronto Ghetto? Not likely. So they suck up their pride and collect some EI, so they can be there for maybe half their kids childhood and provide them a good base to get out and start a better life.
