The basic problem in the fishery is that the provincial fisheries minister has too much control over the industry and - inevitably - tends to use it all for political purposes rather than for the good of the industry.
So fisheries minister Darin King’s answer to the current mess in the industry is to go looking for more power for the fisheries minister.
Nothing good can come of that.
Nothing.
But it also shows just how fundamentally screwed up things are.
Oh yes, and you can’t slide a sheet of paper between the parties on their fisheries policy. King’s latest idea is straight out of the same worn-out playbook the provincial Liberals pushed in the last election. And it’s the same as the bullshit the NDP is pushing with their claim that the problem is corporate greed.
Damn fool ideas from the lot of them.
- srbp -