Newfoundland and Labrador thinking of seceding from Canada

[Jeslek]

SOURCE: http://www.dawn.com/2002/10/19/int11.htm

CARBONEAR: Just 54 years after voting to leave Britain's embrace and join Canada, many people in the remote province of Newfoundland and Labrador are wondering whether they made a massive mistake.

Public unhappiness about perceived economic exploitation and mismanagement by Ottawa is so great that a special royal commission is now travelling across the rocky, sparsely populated Atlantic province to examine its place in Canada.

POOR PUBLIC SERVICES: Newfoundland and Labrador has the highest jobless rate and the lowest per capita income in the country. Residents pay some of the highest taxes in Canada yet their provincial government is running a deficit and delivers public services widely seen as inferior to those elsewhere.

Even John Efford, the federal member of parliament from the ruling Liberal Party who represents the Carbonear area, freely admits there are problems. "Everything is far from okay," he observed.-Reuters

I think it might have something to do with the ruling "Liberal" Party. I find this very interesting. If they secede from Canada, you can bet that Alberta, who has been thinking of the same thing, will do so. Alberta is already very, very pissed at the federal government for blatantly ignoring the Constitution that says NATURAL RESOURCES are under PROVINCIAL jurisdiction. Who controls the oil in Alberta? The Feds. Signing the Kyoto Protocol would also be a great way to push Alberta towards independence.

Very interesting eh?

 

[Professur]

Labrador would revert back to Quebec.

 

[Gato_Solo]

So Quebec would retrieve Labrador?

 

[ris]

only if they can teach it not to piss on the carpet