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PEI Rural Alliance Rally – Monday February 9th noon
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Rally for Rural PEI at Legislature 12 Noon on Monday – Family Day
The PEI Rural Alliance rally for rural PEI will be held Monday. The organizers want PEI to turn out in support of rural PEI which is PEI.
I’m a City Mouse who lived long enough in the country to pass for a Country Mouse. In Charlottetown we hear the story about the car dealerships etc. doing well when the farmers and fisherman do well. That is true but understates the importance of rural PEI. Without the farms, fisherman and people who live outside greater Charlottetown and Summerside, there is no industry on PEI that would support 135,000 people. Do the tourists come to look at Water Street in Summerside or Grafton St. in Charlottetown? No, they come for the most picturesque countryside west of Ireland. PEI is staring in the face of declining transfers from Ottawa. Without the artificial middle class economy created by those Federal dollars, our homes would be worth half of their current value and most of us would have to leave for other parts. We need the people who are creating most of the real economic value on PEI.
Get out and support Rural PEI on Monday because it’s important for everyone on PEI
Spinfree: Federal budget a failure for Shea
By Paul, MacNeill, Eastern Graphic, February 3, 2009
If you’re Gail Shea it takes a lot of political cojones to claim the federal Conservative budget will actually benefit Prince Edward Island. There is little proof of that. The opposite is true. Gail Shea, the Island’s new political master in Ottawa, failed to deliver anything substantive. Equalization is being cut. Employment insurance is not expanded. There is no mention of a license buy-out for Island fishermen.
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Big Story – Farmers can’t get any respect and we’ll lose
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Farm report misses the point, farming is strategic not just any business
By Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, January 30, 2009
with story from the CBC
The report of the Commission on the Future of Agriculture and Agri-Food is a predictable urban reaction to farming. City people think farming is just another business which is not true. Farming is a strategic business to life itself. Without food we die, like water and air. Without a domestic food industry we become victims of international food conglomerates. As Opposition Leader Olive Crane reminded the folks in Covehead this week, the amount of first class farm land in the world is very small and PEI has the some of the best, some of the best in Canada for that matter.
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