Lots of people like the idea of free tuition at post-secondary institutions like Memorial University or the College of the North Atlantic. In the recent provincial general election, the provincial New Democrats included it as one of their major …
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Opening the doors on government information
There are lots of good ideas floating around that could make Newfoundland and Labrador a stronger and better place to live. One simple one would be to emulate British Columbia: throw open piles of government information so that people can use it…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Nurturing a democratic revolution
Public life in Newfoundland and Labrador remains as fundamentally undemocratic as it ever was. Paternalism remains the order of the day. As three sitting members of the House revealed, they they are the face of government in their districts.…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Making the Most of Our Energy Resources, Part II – Oil and Gas in the Future
Without new oil and gas discoveries, the Newfoundland and Labrador petroleum industry will dry up within a couple of decades. There hasn’t been a significant discovery in the offshore since the 1980s, with the exception of one find in the Orpha…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: A tisket, a tasket
You gotta love subtle minds, especially subtle political ones able to see nuances of meaning or the possibility you could rub your tummy and pat your head simultaneously. That would be most definitely not like the political geniuses of the last decade…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Making the Most of Our Energy Resources (Part I – Electricity Reform)
In slightly more than a decade, fundamentally bad policy decisions by Liberal and Conservative administrations have turned the provincial government’s electricity corporation has turned into an unregulated, unaccountable monster. Such is the power …
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Strengthening the Treasury
Consider the simple reality. The current provincial administration has more money – without considering federal transfers – than any other government in the province’s history. Most of the government’s money comes from oil. Oil prices are at…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Building the fishery of the future
To look at the fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador is to see as clear an example as one may find of the fundamental bankruptcy of the sort of old-fashioned politics that has existed from the earliest of times and that persists right down to modern day…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: 15 ideas (and more) – Setting the Table
Our economic vision for Newfoundland and Labrador is that of an enterprising, educated, distinctive and prosperous people working together to create a competitive economy based on innovation, creativity, productivity and quality. Strategic Econom…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: 15 ideas (and more) for a stronger Newfoundland and Labrador – Introduction
In her first speech to the House of Assembly as Premier – which she and her staff erroneously and arrogantly like to call her inaugural speech – Kathy Dunderdale claimed that, since 2003, she and her party had “demonstrated an unwavering commitme…
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