The Blue Pages (II)

On Thursday afternoon, Bill Rowe, who is writing a book about Ottawa, frothed about Ottawa:

All these decisions and everything has to go through Ottawa, and I don’t mean to be unkind but they know about as much about the fishery as you and I know about the backside of the moon. In Iceland where the fishery thrives, or at least thrives compared to here, they make decisions on the spot about their own destiny, and that’s the basic difference right there.

As previously noted, the National Government of National of Dannystan is more concentrated in Andygrad than Occupying Government of Canada is in Ottawa-Gatineau.


As for "making decisions on the spot" about one's own destiny, again, at least as calculated on the Blue Pages Method, which I'll readily abandon if Open and Accountable Government of Williams would publish detailed and reliable figures as to the geographical distribution of provincial government employment, Labrador, with about 5.6% of the provincial population, has under 4.0% of the provincial civil service.

And Labrador, which at last count contributes close on 100% of the non-petroleum mineral output of Newfoundland and Somethingoranother, has less than 10% of the Natural Resources department.

Is that, to use Tom Hedderson's word, "enough"?

And when it comes to decisions about destinies, is the difference in how Newfoundland nationalists demand to be treated within Canada, and what they offer towards Labrador, basic enough for Ambassador Rowe?