CdnFox Posted January 7 Report Posted January 7 44 minutes ago, herbie said: Perhaps we should sell provinces that aren't "sustainable" to the USA? Quebec, the Atlantics , Sask and the Territories. Then we could all be happy that govt was run like a 'real' business. Saskatchewan Is entirely sustainable, it's a have province. And the territories are just cool to own, they're not supposed to be sustainable. So what you're REALLY saying is western canada should separate. Well.... you're not wrong... Quote
Army Guy Posted January 8 Report Posted January 8 23 hours ago, herbie said: Perhaps we should sell provinces that aren't "sustainable" to the USA? Quebec, the Atlantics , Sask and the Territories. Then we could all be happy that govt was run like a 'real' business. Weren't you one bit!hing about traitors wanting to join the US....now your talking about selling off those parts of Canada that YOU seem to think are unsustainable....sounds very patriotic to me....sounds like the liberal coming out, divide and conquer ....Canada does not exist broken up, Canada is Canada with it's present borders....it is all or nothing.... Quote We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing.
herbie Posted January 8 Report Posted January 8 Oh FFS another one incapable of recognizing sarcasm when you see it? Uhhh....l only Trump is allowed to "joke" like that.... Quote
August1991 Posted January 18 Author Report Posted January 18 On 1/8/2025 at 6:06 PM, herbie said: Oh FFS another one incapable of recognizing sarcasm when you see it? Uhhh....l only Trump is allowed to "joke" like that.... Agreed. Trump is trolling, Brooklyn sarcasm. ==== Sustainable? Diversity? A few hundred thousand. People in Newfoundland and Iceland have survived for centuries. Quote
SpankyMcFarland Posted March 10 Report Posted March 10 (edited) Sweet music to mine ears. At last I can utter the words “Churchill Falls” without risking a stroke. I have bolded the worst and best bits. Quote The head of Quebec’s hydro utility was in Labrador on Monday to tour a massive hydroelectric plant at the heart of a draft energy deal touted as a new beginning in the fraught relationship between Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador. Michael Sabia spoke to reporters from the Churchill Falls facility in Labrador, saying the tentative deal was a “clean break” from an “unbalanced and probably unfair” contract that Newfoundland and Labrador has long tried to quash. Quote The tentative agreement unveiled in December has drawn intense scrutiny in Canada’s easternmost province. Newfoundland and Labrador has long felt slighted by a 1969 contract that allowed HydroQuebec to purchase more than 80 per cent of the power from Churchill Falls at rock-bottom prices – and reap most of the profits. As of 2019, the deal yielded close to $28 billion in profits to Quebec, and about $2 billion for Newfoundland and Labrador. Quote If everything in the draft agreement comes to fruition, it promises more than $225 billion in new revenue to the provincial treasury in Newfoundland and Labrador by 2075. Roughly $180 billion would come from the new rates paid by HydroQuebec for Churchill Falls power, officials have said. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-hydroquebec-says-newfoundland-and-labrador-power-deal-is-clean-break/?login=true#comments Edited March 10 by SpankyMcFarland Quote
CdnFox Posted March 10 Report Posted March 10 31 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said: Sweet music to mine ears. At last I can utter the words “Churchill Falls” without risking a stroke. I have bolded the worst and best bits. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-hydroquebec-says-newfoundland-and-labrador-power-deal-is-clean-break/?login=true#comments It certainly wasn't before time 1 Quote
August1991 Posted April 6 Author Report Posted April 6 On 3/10/2025 at 7:20 PM, SpankyMcFarland said: Sweet music to mine ears. At last I can utter the words “Churchill Falls” without risking a stroke. I have bolded the worst and best bits. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-hydroquebec-says-newfoundland-and-labrador-power-deal-is-clean-break/?login=true#comments I saw this report too. It has little news in the Quebec MSM federal french media. ====== What is Legault doing? https://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/825923/legault-achete-paix-terre-neuve-labrador? Note the comment at the end: Le Devoir s’est rendu à St. John’s dans un transport offert aux médias par Hydro-Québec. Quote
SpankyMcFarland Posted April 6 Report Posted April 6 It’s an utterly transformative deal for NL if it happens. The province will be sustainable. Quote
herbie Posted April 7 Report Posted April 7 Funny how this thread began before Trump's bombastic claims happened. The idea that a bloody Province is 'sustainable' plays right into the bean-counter mentality that it should be sold off or given away. I mean, really if they do not make a profit, what use are they, eh? That's the only reason for existence, right? Maybe trade both away for Point Roberts and the NW Angle as the US could see them as 'unsustainable'? Quote
CdnFox Posted April 7 Report Posted April 7 18 minutes ago, herbie said: Funny how this thread began before Trump's bombastic claims happened. The idea that a bloody Province is 'sustainable' plays right into the bean-counter mentality that it should be sold off or given away. I mean, really if they do not make a profit, what use are they, eh? That's the only reason for existence, right? Maybe trade both away for Point Roberts and the NW Angle as the US could see them as 'unsustainable'? Okay Myata Quote
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