Why do people start threads with titles suggesting they welcome discussion, when they really just want to voice their own opinion and argue with anyone who disagrees with them?
Watching the Juno Awards' audience unanimously boo Pamela Anderson for her anti-sealing comments and cheer at Jann Arden's comment that her "brassiere was made entirely of seal eyelid", it's easy for people outside Atlantic Canada to think that we all support the seal hunt. We don't. What we hate is people from outside Atlantic Canada coming in and telling us what we can and cannot do in order to survive in the poorest part of Canada. Nobody knows what it's like to live here until they've lived here.
(For anyone from rural Atlantic Canada who looks at my location and says "Halifax? Like you know what it's like," this is just where I'm going to school.)
Newfoundland may be experiencing an economic boom, but keep in mind that it would take years of a booming economy for Newfoundland to even approach Alberta's status. The people here do what they need to do to support themselves, and I support their right to do it.
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