The Canadian confederation is a sham. It is nothing more than. Tyranny of the majority, Per Capita Colonialism, Democratic Discrimination by all of the national proxy parties of the majority ON/QU against the minority, Reverse robin hood. Steal from the poor minority and give to the vote rich majority. And those are the nice terms. Don’t give us your crap about feed us please on a per capita basis NL’ians have contributed four times as much as the next nearest province.

EQUALITY OR EXIT!

Under the Atlantic Accord NL was supposed to be the principal beneficiary of the resources on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland when the Accord was signed in 1985 by the Mulroney-Peckford governments. Mulroney oxymoronically said that he was not afraid to inflict prosperty on NL. During the Chretien government, the primary beneficiary was clearly Ottawa. Martin, the then finance minister took over top job and was likely embarrassed by his government’s unashamed rip off of the intent of the Atlantic Accord. During a preelection visit, he agreed to a one time payment of 2 billion dollars to make amends. The Liberals tried to weasel out of the commitment. Williams had a fit, flags down, etc. One disturbing comment made by an Ottawa minion at that time was NL will pay (for this acrimony). In the new budget, Ontario gets $1 billion and NL looses $1.6 billion. It is a puzzle to me how the feds can unabashedly change these agreements/accords. What became of the principle ‘a contract is a contract’ a la Churchill Falls. Incidentally, the equalization payments beginning in January 2009: Ontario – $347 million Quebec – $8.35 billion Manitoba – $2.1 billion New Brunswick – $1.69 billion Nova Scotia – $1.57 billion P.E.I. – $340 million NL – $O
EQUALITY OR EXIT!

Our best hope is to be dragged out of this major economic correction, which may be come a depression, by the good planing and foresight of others.

The problem with being dragged out, is you finish dead last in a worse condition than everyone else.