In this case a deluge of what Telegram editor Russell Wangersky calls "moaners".
It's easier to say we've never gotten anywhere because of all the things done to us, because of all the efforts to keep us down, because of all of the conspiracies and dirty deals.
It's easy, because that means we never have to take even the slightest little bit of responsibility for anything we do or have done.
Bad business decision? Pardon my French, but "we were screwed!" is always the resulting clarion-call.
And you know what? Every time I hear the pained bleat of "they've done it to us again," a little bit of my heart dies, along with a little bit of my pride in the things we've been able to achieve in this hard and desperate place.And there must be other people out there who feel the same way I do about it.
So, what are we supposed to be? Victims of what everyone else has done to us, or the survivors of a tough place with, until now, one of the hardest pieces of land and sea in Canada?
Well, said, Russell.
-srbp-