Nation Building, Nfld Style

Removing our national flag. Remember that? Will, it happened and it was ordered by our own premier, Danny Williams.

He claimed it was for good reasons but I wonder what the rest of Canada thought of it. Did he put much thought into the consequences
of such actions? Consequences such as future requests for funding of major projects in NL. consequences such as wanting to run for Prime Minister sometime down the road. Did Danny Williams expect Ottawa to have a short memory and forget about this drastic action?

Lets look at federal funding for the Lower Churchill. After everything that as transpired concerning constant attacks against Ottawa by the Williams government, will the feds actually go out of their way now to help this province finance Muskrat Falls or will they just brush us off? What would you do for an enemy of your government and your country? Will Harper be kind to NL, forgive the PC's and send them a large cheque?

How could the Newfoundland and Labrador Government recover from such a move as removing our countries flag? How can they come back and be forgiven by the Feds so that they can obtain big bucks from Ottawa again? Maybe it could be accomplished by the ring leader (Danny Williams)resigning. Is that why he resigned? Maybe Ottawa will then look at helping us again. Is this the reason Kathy Dunderdale, our new premier is now in Canada's Capital with hat in hand asking for help to develop the Lower Churchill? Will it work or will Ottawa see through this facade? Ottawa knows that NL has the same government that backed Danny Williams by attacking our country. Will Ottawa forgive and forget knowing this fact?

Ottawa also as some additional gripes about this provincial government. Maybe they are asking themselves if this provincial government is really democratic? They have to wonder this after seeing the fiasco with Brad Cabana. Do the Feds want to support financially an un democratic province? Then there is the move by NL PC's to coronate Kathy Dunderdale as the new premier so that she can carry on the work of the former premier, uninterrupted.

Food for thought.

The Collapse of an Empire

Danny's abandoned Empire.

A long time Conservative switches allegiance(Graham Letto)to join the Liberal Party.

Danny Williams' beloved PC Party gives the Democratic process a huge black eye by not allowing a fairly new Newfoundlander(Brad Cabana)to enter the PC Leadership race, better than getting shot in the head like in the good old U.S.A..

This guy, Brad Cabana must be a very intellegent person to cause a powerful-?- Conservative Party to buckle the way they did. I mean, if this party is so will organized, why would they be so concerned about a little CFA taking it over? Why not just give him the benefit of the doubt by letting him run and fall?

Mr. Cabana should appeal this decision of the government. The least an appeal could do is push the PC's towards an amended constitution. It surely needs amending, especially their membership section. May I suggest free membership cards, fancy one, you know, with bar codes and all.

All this leadership fuss should be good for the Liberal Party though. I'm looking forward to a far more powerful opposition after the next election or a new and revised Liberal Party. Hopefully the Liberals have learned some valuable lessons from their fall from grace. Lets hope they come out of this fall and form a great and honest government, of the people and for the people after October. Gotta have a dream! LOL

Cruel to be Kind(an unpublished 2007)

In the right measure, of course.

Come on little Labrador Retrievers, play dead for Poppy Danny. Mark your 'X' on October 9 for Johnny and give him your paw.

We all should keep in mind that after four years with the PC's, they gave us a couple bones with very little meat on them. What more do you want, Danny might say? What is wrong with a few bones a month before the election?

If its a majority PC Government this time around, they will give us another bone or two, thirty days prior to October 9, 2011 election. Something to look forward to, hey?

Don't you see his plan unfolding before you? He fooled the Metis last time. His plan is to fool the rest of us this time, right? All he had to do was promise us the Moon and Stars, but deliver a few bones, then, him and his side-kick preach to us all what they did with Federal Money disguised as Provincial.

Labrador people, don't you see the wool falling over your eyes? How neive can we be?

Ask yourself this: Why didn't the Williams government start the Trans-Labrador Highway reconstruction between Lab West and Hgvb three years ago? Finish that section first because it was started back in the 60's and it joines larger populated areas to the rest of Canada. Where did the $25 million per year for 7 years that the Federal Minister Loyola Hearn announced April 3, 2007 go to? He did say, there was no strings attached and it could be used for our highway in the BigLand. That announcement excited John Hickey, Graham Letto and Jim Farrell .