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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Can you please let me know though if other provinces have actively blocked, or the federal government has legislation or policy prohibiting economic growth in any of the following provinces or territories?
- forestry, mining, tv and film or tourism in BC?
- potash mining, uranium or agriculture in SK?
- hydroelectric or manufacturing in Manitoba?
- the automotive or financial sectors in ON?
- hydroelectric, forestry, aerospace, pharmaceuticals in QC? Dairy in QC?
- oil refining or forestry in NB?
- shipbuilding, fisheries, tourism or marine R&D in NS?
- agriculture or fish industries in PEI?
- oil and gas, fisheries or mining in Newfoundland?
- mining in the territories?
Just trying to find an analog?
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Maybe you're too young to remember this, or perhaps you just don't follow news that impacts other provinces, but in 1992 the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans completely shut down the Newfoundland cod fishing industry because it had become unsustainable after decades of mismanagement and overfishing. The cod population in Newfoundland waters had collapsed to a mere 1% of historic levels. The federal ban on Newfoundland cod fishing was only lifted in 2024, 32 years later, and even then fishing quotas are very tightly restricted.
As a direct result of the federal government's intervention, about 37,000 Newfoundlanders employed in the commercial fishing industry and related sectors lost their jobs. The population of the entire province in 1992 (including children, retirees, and non-working adults which make up about 40% of the total population) was 580k, so you can do the math and figure out what a sudden increase of 37,000 newly unemployed adults did to the local economy. If you scale that number up to Alberta's current population, that would be the equivalent of about 315,000 Albertans -- or
three times the entire population of the greater Fort McMurray area -- suddenly losing their jobs practically overnight because of a mandate by the federal government.
And yet, I know dozens of Newfoundlanders, and not a single one of them has ever complained about Ottawa the same way so many Albertans do.