Leaders and citizens of the Province should remember their ancestors who in 1857 as a colony of Britain forced the British Government to agree that Newfoundland’s consent was necessary before the Colonial Government enacted changes that would affect the Newfoundland’s fishery. It was called the Labouchere Dispatch .
For the Federal Government to agree to increase the northern cod quota when their own scientists say there has been no growth in the troubled stock since 2016 is an abdication of sound resource policy .
To think after all the chaos and misery the collapse of this stock has cost the people of the Province that the 6 MP ‘s would associate themselves with this announcement tragically demonstrates that they have learned nothing from recent history or from the experience of the 1850’s when the colony was fighting for ‘responsible ‘ government in its colonial legislature.
And as a further act of stupidity and an affront to the inshore fishery , to allocate this increase ( if the union statements are correct) in large part to the offshore fishery and its corporate interests brings back the Title of my first book, ‘The Past In The Present’ given the Labouchere Dispatch was an anomaly and is to be again.
Where is the Newfoundland Government? Is there still one?
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