labradore does yet another commendable job on demographics and recent population increases.
He also dissects the former finance minister’s guarded language when attributing the in-migration trends to a cause.
Basically, Jerome doesn’t.
He talks instead about things that will happen manana.
Tomorrow is a very important concept in the language of Newfoundland politics. it is when things happen. Unlike American politics where happy days are here again, Newfoundland politics is a place where good things will come tomorrow.
We must be ready for a better tomorrow.
Today is a chore to be endured until tomorrow.
Today there must be cuts in health care and so forth, but it will be all worth it, tomorrow.
There are lessons to be learned from here or there that will prepare us for the rapture coming tomorrow.
The Lower Churchill is on the way. It gets here tomorrow just as it has been getting here tomorrow for 40 years now. Some people aren’t attuned to the local political argot and so get taken for a ride. It’s especially wonderful to read the post on selective perception from 2006 and note the issues that still dog the Lower Churchill three years after the most recent political resurrection of this golem.
Heck, in one sense, Tom Rideout can hardly be faulted for thinking one June that tomorrow was actually four months away.
And tomorrow as we all know is a day that never arrives anyway. When it does get here it is actually “today”.
Yet for all that, people still wonder why Alice in Wonderland is a good metaphor for Newfoundland politics.
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