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Originally Posted by OFKU0
As for the Prime Minister speaking for me and all Canadians that we are embarrassed by the actions taken,..well for one I'm not.
Newfoundland is getting screwed again. Why doesn't our knowledgable Prime Minister come out and say that Canadians are embarrassed by Quebecs constant bickering about seperation everytime the gravy train slows down?
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Okay, there is an easy knee-jerk side to this, and a more complex critical side, and I think the obvious reactions are emotional. However, I can't help but both agree and disagree with OFKU0 in that, no Martin does not speak for me. Yet, I also say that the NFLD Premier has it very, very wrong.
What, for instance, does he think will be acomplished with this bizarre political posturing? Will an agreement come faster becuase Ottawa wlil want a deal that wlil fly the flags again? Absolutely not. It's political grand-standing, taken right out of the Ralph Klein handbook on "How NOT To Run Your Province."
Do I think that the Maritime provinces should get the Lion's share of these resource revenues? Absolutely. Does this have anything to do with the Greedy P.Q. provincial agenda? Nothing whatsoever (although I agree with an earlier poster that says maybe we should be looking at those Quebec hydro revenues a little closer, even though it would result in civil war
Still, IMO only, I see the act of the NFLD Premier as silly, self-serving, and without any real thought, except to make sure that every person in the province becomes aware that they have a Premier.
Anyway, Ottawa will get a deal one way or the other, flags or no flags, and NFLD will end up giving something up, just as Alberta does for its oil and gas. It's just the way Ottawa works when they are addicted to collecting revenue from provinces in the form of equalization, and from its citizens in the form of taxation overburden.
C'est la vie.
Peace,
Pierre