It’s one thing to protest openly again a government, especially the current one.
It’s another thing entirely when people are willing to burn gasoline to do it.
Flower’s Cove, the early report via voice of the cabinet minister:
People arrived in cars and by the bus loads to protest proposed cuts to lab and x-ray services at a rally on the Northern Peninsula over the weekend. NDP Leader Lorraine Michael was at the rally in Flowers Cove yesterday. She says the overall attitude of the people there was one of anger and betrayal.
Anger and betrayal?
Might that have something to do with Danny Williams comments the night of the 2001 by-election when said he would never forget the people of the region for voting Tory?
Might that be one of the reasons why Williams and his office are tossing every obstacle possible to prevent the release of the text of his speeches?
or could it be lines like this one, recounting the lighter moments of politics in June 2001:
And another voter who wanted change in the Northern Peninsula told me that politicians and diapers have something in common: they both have to be changed regularly, for the same reason.
Yessirreee, the crowd protested and burned precious gasoline to do it.
That’s a sure sign people are unhappy with the government.
But if they brought huggies and pampers, then watch out.
-srbp-
5 comments:
I remember the days when one had to wait and travel by train to see a specialist at the hospital in Corner Brook.....it took hours to get there. Then came the roads when travel made it easier in the 60's. Now that Canada is in a mess economically, is it not reasonable that the NL government might want to consolidate good health care located in a particular place where it is available to everyone in the area who needs only travel for a half hour or an hour to get good testing with almost immediate results? I am not talking about emergencies. I have to travel two and a half hours to see specialists in Calary which I must do at the end of this month and that is in the Province of Alberta. A. Engel
Well, Engel, Morris or whatever name you are posing as for the moment, there are a great many palces in this province where one would have to travel much more than two and a half hours to receive any form of medical care beyond the most basic.
That rationalisation and re-organizaing of health service has been going on for some time.
What's interesting is how this one came about and that the party now championing the approach are the ones who, until recently, accused their predecessors of perpetrating the same evils.
Perhaps, like you, they should just stop playing games and get on with things.
There are people traveling longer than two and a half hours here as well to see specialists. We now have to centres...Edmonton and Calgary. What I tried to say was; it is not only Newfoundland in this kind of medical quandry and over time in Newfoundland, one does have to admit, health care has improved. For example, in 1963 my mother and I were involved in a very bad car-train accident. If it had not been for the medical profession at Ernest Harmon Air Force Base where my mother was the liaison officer between the Canadian and American Governments and the American medical help at the little hospital where we were taken, my mother would have died....today in Newfoundland, such accidents are tended to in a much more efficient manner don't you agree? A. Morris Engel.
That should have been "two" centres. A. Morris Engel
I forgot to mention......a promise made ought to be a promise kept. However, government in Canada at the moment happens to be full of promises. That situation may be because the country is totally in election mode at all times. I haven't any idea what Newfoundland's problem would be toward forgotten promises. A. Morris Engel
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