Go Danny Go

I'm 100% behind Danny. It's one thing to have the resources (AbitibiBowwater) and use them (process into product) within the confines of the province. But it is something else again to shut down and leave, and expect to keep those resources without further benefit to the province. The Americans tried that with oil in the middle east, and the same thing happened, the resources were expropriated and the refineries were nationalized. I am in favour of doing that through-out Canada. This is, believe it or not, the main stumbling block with NAFTA. The Americans claim we give unfair advantage to Canadian manufactured products because we give away our resources. So I say take them back, take all of them back. Our softwood, our iron ore, our coal, hydro electric water heads, even our diamond and gold fields. Pay the companies for their non-recouped investment and lease hold improvements and turn it over to wholly own Canadian companies. If any of these companies are sold to foreign interests, nationalize them.

You picked a subject I am passionate about. I am tired of seeing our tax money being given to foreign or out of province companies to set up shop, just to have the squirrel it away and then leave. The hog processing plant in PEI, car plants in Ontario, lots of economic incentive ventures in the Atlantic provinces, steel mills in Cape Breton, etc, etc, etc. It has to stop. If the government wants to give $3.4B dollars to the auto makes, then give it to them and tell them to leave after we nationalize the auto industry. Get Frank Stronach to run it, he tried to by Chrysler in 2007 and they wouldn't let him. By the way, Chrysler was sold for $7.4B, now they want $25B US for all three, plus the $3.4B CDN, which Premier Dalton McGuinty acknowledged -- "This is a bit of a lifeline at this point in time to sustain the industry,"

that's enough for one day... B4N

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Thanks for sharing the info on St. Lawrence. Must be sad to see towns dying. Speaking of NFLD, what do you think of the Danny William expropriation of the natural resources of the Abitibi Bowwater ...Hmmmmm Blessings ------Snip for privacy--------

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The population of St. Lawrence was 2,500 when I was there. It was a mining town, but the mine closed, then the fish plant closed. I think the population is about 1,500 now, more than half of whom are women. There are about 550 homes and maybe 5 or 6 clubs/bars. It was a nice place, but very isolated. I can recall two winters in a row that we received mail and groceries by helicopter from St. Johns, because the roads were not open.

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Rita Rudner - "I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight."

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http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=St+Lawrence,+NL&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=25.027097,55.898438&ie=UTF8&ll=46.91916,-55.379961&spn=0.001616,0.003412&t=h&z=18
Copy this URL and you will see all what is left. There used to be three houses to the right of the L-shaped building, mine was the middle one. Now there are none. The town is a lot bigger than it used to be.
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Robert Orben - "Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get."

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