Time to rethink our relationship with Canada
An edited version of the following letter was published in today’s Telegram Dear editor, With a loss of about $50 billion in hydro returns, Newfoundland and Labrador’s sacrifice for “preserving Canadian unity” has been an economic anchor around the province’s neck, and our own union with Canada has cost us billions more as a result of a federally mismanaged fishery that holds us down like a bag of rocks. Between the anchor and the rocks, this place is doomed. The time is now, before bankruptcy finally does us in, to reset our economic relationship with Canada, or, in event of a failure to negotiate a new deal, to seriously consider leaving the federation. To be clear, I am not a separatist, but separation, as with all options, must be considered as a means to finally float our ship of state. Former Premier and Chief Justice of the Newfoundland Supreme Court, Clyde Wells, told the CBC recently that one of the reasons this province is once again knocking on O