Newfoundland and Labrador:

That’s’ the name of the province we are in.

Newfoundland and Labradorian [or it's plural]. To me that would be the way to refer to the populace of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, right? Wrong, at least for many on the Island portion of the province, especially the premier and the premiers government minions.

They insist on using the term Newfoundlanders and Labradorians. For some the and labradorians is almost an after thought, then there are some who just leave it out altogether.

This seems to me to promote divisiveness rather trying to promote unity and unanimity.

This was highlighted in the premier’s speech last week in the big TO. The emphasis was on ABC [anything but conservative] in the next election, plus he asked for “all Newfoundlanders and Labradorians and Canadians to come together to rid us of the evil Harper government” [paraphrased]. Well I have no argument with that, but to use divisive language in trying to unite just seems fruitless to me. Of course it has occurred to me the premier’s agenda maybe not to unite, time will tell on that.

Also on uniting the province; [leave alone the country] Craig Westcott was doing a commentary this morning on CBC radio. Mr. Westcott is no friend of the premier, and he does make sense at times. But this morning Westcott was bemoaning the fact that city of St. John’s only received one million dollars in the latest budget for roads works. That would be fine, but he went on to compare the million with the multi millions promised in the budget for roads/infrastructure in Labrador.

I emphasis the word promised here, after all a lot of it is promises, some monies are contingent on matching federal funds, some of the monies was previously announced, some of the monies may be federal monies administered by the province.

So if Mr. Westcott wants to lambaste the government for allegedly short changing the city of St.John’s the that’s fine, but to throw out ill thought out and researched remarks comparing one million for that city to about thirty five million of unknown dollars for Labrador is very divisive indeed. I could get into how Labrador has been largely ignored in many many provincial budgets but wont at the moment.

There are known knows and known unknowns……OK, forgetaboutit. But when it comes to funding issues in Labrador it is best to do some serious digging before giving credit to who is doing what for and to whom.

Update.

Great idea for the big rally on the 11th.

Pink and Green Rose Bouquet with free chocolates.

No FTD is not advertising these, just the pink and cream for Mothers Day.

But I’m surprised some enterprising Newfoundlanders has/have not come up with the idea, or maybe they have/has.