December, 23, 2004
By Clinton P. Desveaux

For 55 years Newfoundland has been waiting on the promise that being a Canadian province would offer amazing opportunities. Well amazing opportunities have happened all right, amazing in the sense that Newfoundland and Labrador is sort of a giant steamship slowly sinking under the weight of an iceberg called Canada!  

The funny thing about Newfoundlanders and Labradoreans however is that unlike Québécois, or Albertan’s who will never send Liberals to Ottawa again to represent them in front of the people of Canada; the folks on “the rock” lack the inner fortitude to tell folks like Byrne and Efford to make up their minds. Hey Efford, Matthews, and Byrne are you Newfoundlanders and Labradoreans first, or just a bunch of pathetic Ottawa trained seals that jump whenever Liberals says ‘Now’?   

What kind of people would allow themselves to be fooled into signing deals like the Upper Church Hills Falls Hydro Electric Project? Billions of dollars leave Newfoundland and Labrador while the rest of Canada sits back and laughs…Oh it’s okay next time Newfoundland and Labrador will not get screwed over…yeah right…  

I have lived all over Canada, and yet no region or people that I’m aware of continue to get rotted yoghurt force fed to it from the rest of Canada. These folks are amazing; to think they remain loyal to not only Canada but also the Liberal Party of Canada, WOW!  

One of the more funny stories to come about in Newfoundland is that they actually convince themselves into thinking that only Canada knows how to best manage their own fishery.

This is of course is the very same Canada governed by Liberals which murdered one of the greatest fisheries this planet has ever seen, and all for pure crass political reasons, yet the good people in Newfoundland and Labrador keep voting Liberal, talk about stupid… 

Hey to the guys and gals who remain on the rock, you know your population is slowly going the way of the dinosaur right? In case anyone doesn’t know what I’m referring to let me be perfectly clear, all trends point to eventual extinction. Keep voting Liberal, after all Canada knows best.  

What was really funny for me was that Newfoundland and Labrador finally had a chance to generate some real money, and what happens at the very last minute? Canada steps in and tells you ‘sorry we are not going to let you sell your own fresh water, after all Canada knows best’; what made this so funny however was that these people kept voting Liberal, amazing stuff really! They had a water bottling plant and shipping port ready to go but Maude Barlow and her ilk stepped in and the Liberals slapped Newfoundland across the face!  

Now Newfoundlanders and Labradoreans are once again going to get screwed blued and tattooed by Canada’s Liberal Party over offshore oil and gas development; here is a prediction, you folks are so gutless on the rock that your going to actually vote Liberal again when the next election happens… Imagine for every dollar of cash that the oil and gas brings in to Newfoundland and Labrador, they only get to keep 20 cents of it, the other 80 cents all go to Ottawa, the capital of Canada.  

You see the promise that being a Canadian province would offer amazing opportunities has indeed come true, its come true for the Liberal Party of Canada and Ottawa. Newfoundland on the other hand has had the life sucked out of it. Canada has been the kind of friend to Newfoundland that everyone wants in a friend…the kind of friend, which acts like a constant poke in the eye! 

If things remain the same, and they will indeed, Newfoundland and Labrador should take down the Maple Leaf and separate, unless of course you want to simply keep voting Liberal…