Yesterday’s man delivered yesterday’s ideas and claimed it was the future. Liberal leader Kevin Aylward unveiled his party’s fisheries platform on Friday. As a historical document, it would be wonderful for an election from 1975. But in 20…
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Good to the last vote: Grit version #nlpoli
Not to be outdone by the Dippers, the Grits and their leader Kevin Aylward will release their fisheries policy on Friday at 11:00 AM at the Delta Hotel in St. John’s. This one should be a doozie. – srbp –
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Good to the last vote: NDP paints own caricature #nlpoli
Your humble e-scribbler said it most recently just a few days ago: The two opposition parties are less concerned about the financial costs. Instead they are making the most of sounding like they want to do something while at the same time adv…
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: Political impotence and the little blue pills
Fish minister Clyde “The Finger” Jackman is going to fight to save a local coast guard co-ordination centre and its dozen jobs. Well, that’s what the torqued CBC headline says. The provincial government he’s a part of has created a financi…
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