Sunday, July 09, 2006
Atlantis reborn
I posted this comment over at Web talk "The time for talk is over" http://freenewfoundlandlabrador.blogspot.com/2006/07/time-for-talk-is-over.html
but I felt it needed further discussion.
Here's a thought the time for talk isn't over, it's just who and what we need to be talking to and about.
Namely we need to be talking to Quebec and the rest of the Atlantic provinces.
Now a federation of Eastern proinces would work outside of Canada. Assuming Quebec is willing to give the rest of us some sort of Equality namely Triple E senate and Equality in the supreme court.
Quebec would be the new Ontario in a scenario like this. So the ball would be in their court as to whether or not they would be willing to recognise English Atlanticans in this new arrangement. We would have enough clout and world power to be able to battle any macinations the remainder of Canada would try to perpetrate against us in this new found country if it were actually to happen.
Quebec would have to be concilliatory on the Upper Churchill in NL's case. But I think it could actually work.
We would have enough resources and power assuming the infrastructure was built to distribute it amongst the new parties namely NS, NB and PEI want and need new sources of power. We in NL have those sources only Quebec is hindering us from deeloping and distributing them and Ottawa is doing nothing to prevent them.
It would become like a circular trade route within our own boundaries assuming a fixed link is agreed to across the Strait Jacket of Belle Isle. An intermodal cable car set up would be the most cost effective in the short term IMHO. While a nation pwer corridor either through Quebec and into the mainland Atlantic portions or a subsea route to supply the Mainland Atlantic provinces.
This would solve the problem of we are all to small to go it alone but are being mistreated in Canada because of our lack of equality within Canada while being large enough with enough resources to protect ourselves and provide for ourselves amongst the 4 new entities.
-All schools would have to be bilingual, to the leel of acceptance for any govt jobs.
-Upper Churchill would have to be renegotiated.
-Lower Churchill would have to be supported with stipulations that new country would get first dibs and infrastructure and a national power corridor connecting them with it.
-Intermodal Cable car fixed link would have to be supported.
-Continental shelf would have to be claimed/Ratified in accordance with the United Nations law of the Sea article 76.
-Equality for all partners within the Senate and Supreme court of Atlantis.
-Lower north shore road completed.
-NS, NB, and PEI would be guaranteed power from the Lower and or Upper churchill.
-Off shore Oil and Gas hmmm. Fallow Field legislation for one.
-House of Commons and voting districts would remain the same.
-Military and govt jobs would have to be more evenly distributed.
-Abolish the Govenor General and Leuitent GG's.
-Fishery would only be allowed to use selective none destructive harvesting methods.
-Seal hunt properly supported and monitored. New harvesting quotas system manditory all of carcass nust be landed and open to inspection to ensure humane killing practices were observed. Quota per sealer or boat so what happened in the gulf this past year doesn't reoccur where they had a quota of 20,000 but took 90,000.
-Voisey Bay honored.
-Native societies welcomed and recognized as distinctive. Promote their culture, arts and crafts as well as right to harvest wild animals. make natives stewards of DFO, Wildlife etc.
but I felt it needed further discussion.
Here's a thought the time for talk isn't over, it's just who and what we need to be talking to and about.
Namely we need to be talking to Quebec and the rest of the Atlantic provinces.
Now a federation of Eastern proinces would work outside of Canada. Assuming Quebec is willing to give the rest of us some sort of Equality namely Triple E senate and Equality in the supreme court.
Quebec would be the new Ontario in a scenario like this. So the ball would be in their court as to whether or not they would be willing to recognise English Atlanticans in this new arrangement. We would have enough clout and world power to be able to battle any macinations the remainder of Canada would try to perpetrate against us in this new found country if it were actually to happen.
Quebec would have to be concilliatory on the Upper Churchill in NL's case. But I think it could actually work.
We would have enough resources and power assuming the infrastructure was built to distribute it amongst the new parties namely NS, NB and PEI want and need new sources of power. We in NL have those sources only Quebec is hindering us from deeloping and distributing them and Ottawa is doing nothing to prevent them.
It would become like a circular trade route within our own boundaries assuming a fixed link is agreed to across the Strait Jacket of Belle Isle. An intermodal cable car set up would be the most cost effective in the short term IMHO. While a nation pwer corridor either through Quebec and into the mainland Atlantic portions or a subsea route to supply the Mainland Atlantic provinces.
This would solve the problem of we are all to small to go it alone but are being mistreated in Canada because of our lack of equality within Canada while being large enough with enough resources to protect ourselves and provide for ourselves amongst the 4 new entities.
-All schools would have to be bilingual, to the leel of acceptance for any govt jobs.
-Upper Churchill would have to be renegotiated.
-Lower Churchill would have to be supported with stipulations that new country would get first dibs and infrastructure and a national power corridor connecting them with it.
-Intermodal Cable car fixed link would have to be supported.
-Continental shelf would have to be claimed/Ratified in accordance with the United Nations law of the Sea article 76.
-Equality for all partners within the Senate and Supreme court of Atlantis.
-Lower north shore road completed.
-NS, NB, and PEI would be guaranteed power from the Lower and or Upper churchill.
-Off shore Oil and Gas hmmm. Fallow Field legislation for one.
-House of Commons and voting districts would remain the same.
-Military and govt jobs would have to be more evenly distributed.
-Abolish the Govenor General and Leuitent GG's.
-Fishery would only be allowed to use selective none destructive harvesting methods.
-Seal hunt properly supported and monitored. New harvesting quotas system manditory all of carcass nust be landed and open to inspection to ensure humane killing practices were observed. Quota per sealer or boat so what happened in the gulf this past year doesn't reoccur where they had a quota of 20,000 but took 90,000.
-Voisey Bay honored.
-Native societies welcomed and recognized as distinctive. Promote their culture, arts and crafts as well as right to harvest wild animals. make natives stewards of DFO, Wildlife etc.
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