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Take this article with a grain of salt. You normally can't quietly and quickly shut these types of things down. It would be on the CBC and especially something
by 3pt14159 13y ago
Take this article with a grain of salt. You normally can't quietly and quickly shut these types of things down. It would be on the CBC and especially something like this would be very hard to pull off. Here is why:
1. Obvious environmental concerns about oceans and fisheries.
2. The conservative base is pro-government regulation of fisheries.
3. The conservative base is sentimental, and destroying first copies of anything would piss them off.
4. Newfoundlanders (man is it hard not to write "Newfies") gave up a shit ton of prosperity after joining Canada by having the government come in and regulate their fish stocks. (To be fair, they didn't have much choice. If they had kept going there would be nothing left in 5 to 10 years. No I'm not exaggerating it was fucking bad.) For the conservative government to do something that widely flies in the face of that would be to piss off an entire province.
5. The government is under a lot of flack by gutting the census and by muzzling federal employed scientists, this would make voters across Canada balk.
6. Canada is fighting off illegal Chinese and Portuguese fishing boats. These libraries contain information that is useful if we're ever going to get reparations from them.
7. No clear motive for doing so. It isn't like big oil has made a giant spill and the conservatives are trying to cover up the environmental damage or anything.
8. I fail to see this being reported on the CBC, and they would be all over this.
- oulipian 13y agoRegarding 4 (Newfoundland): the Harper government pretty much pisses off the entire provice on a weekly basis. Harper's conservative base is out west, Newfoundlanders certainly don't think much of him. Peter Penashue was the only Conservative MP voted in here in the last election, and he's gone now, thankfully.
- jbooth 13y agoThose are all good reasons not to do this. But "nobody smart would do that" doesn't refute the reporting. You could come up with a similar list of common-sense reasons not to start wars in the middle east but in the US we do that like every 5 years.
- slurry 13y agoYes, we might call this the "no one would ever fight a land war in Asia" fallacy.
- cperciva 13y agoTake this article with a grain of salt. Better yet, take everything from huffingtonpost.ca with a grain of salt. They make Fox News look unbiased by comparison...