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A correction and an oberservation

Dec. 12th Telegram letter to the editor I wish to make a correction to my Nov. 27 letter to the editor ("An olive branch is still a stick"), and make a further point. In the letter, I wrote that Loyola Sullivan, "Canada's $225,000-a-year Ambassador of Fisheries Conservation is a sell out - interested in toeing the federal bureaucratic line above all else." In fact, Sullivan e-mailed me after the letter was published to say his salary falls between $143,000 and $168,700 a year. My apologies to the sell out. In the most recent news on the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization front ("Jones, Shea meet in Ottawa," Dec. 5), The Telegram reported that provincial Liberal Leader Yvonne Jones met recently in Ottawa with federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea. Jones said she was surprised to learn that the federal government's decision on pending amendments to the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization is final. The current debate in the House of Commo