Carl Powell is wrong

There is a necessary and inevitible corollary to the rule that Sue Kelland-Dyer is wrong, namely:

Carl Powell is wrong.

Carl Powell, when he thinks that the Labrador boundary has been changed by maps published in or by Quebec, is wrong.

Carl Powell, when he thinks that the Labrador boundary has been changed by brochures or prospectuses, or anything else short of a constitutional enactment approved by the House of Assembly in St. John's, is wrong.

Carl Powell is wrong.

Carl Powell's default setting is "wrong."

This afternoon, Carl Powell repeated his usual nonsensical assertions about the Labrador boundary. They are as wrong when he makes them as Sue is when she does.

He also made the ludicrous claim, easily checked, that the Torngat Mountains National Park in Arctic Labrador has been cancelled.

In 2005, the Torngat Mountains National Park Reserve — one step short of being a National ark — was created by the enactment of the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act.

Meanwhile, on March 28 of this year, Bill C-51, An Act to give effect to the Nunavik Inuit Land Claims Agreement and to make a consequential amendment to another Act, was introduced into the House of Commons.

It passed the House, at all stages, on June 13th.

It passed Second Reading in the Senate, and was referred to a Senate committee, on June 21st.

And just what is this "consequential amendment to another Act"?

CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS TO THE CANADA NATIONAL PARKS ACT

13. Part 10 of Schedule 1 to the Canada National Parks Act is amended by adding the following after the description of Gros Morne National Park of Canada:

(3) TORNGAT MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK OF CANADA

All that parcel of land in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador shown on a descriptive map plan prepared by the Department of Natural Resources, dated November 15, 2004 and recorded in the Crown Lands Registry Office in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, under number SP 367; a copy of the plan is attached as appendix D-1 to the Agreement, as defined in section 2 of the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act; the parcel contains an area of approximately 9 700 square kilometres.

This is how "cancelled" the Torngat Mountains National Park is... so "cancelled" it's four legislative steps away from becoming law.

And so cancelled it's already been reserved for use as a future, very near-future, National Park.

Carl Powell is wrong.

Never forget that: Carl Powell is wrong.