NL Government Launches new Seal Harvest Web Site
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador is stepping up its communications strategy to address the misinformation about the sealing industry that is put in the public domain by international animal rights organizations. Today, government is launching a sealing industry communications Web site, as part of this strategy.
The Honourable Tom Rideout, Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, today stated, "The sealing industry Web site is a key part of government’s plan to correct the misinformation on this all important industry.
It will provide easy access to factual information on the Newfoundland and Labrador sealing industry to Internet users all over the world. "It is critical the public has easy access to factual information on the sealing industry," said the minister. "There is a lot of misinformation in the public domain and the groups that are spreading the misinformation have a strong Web presence. In order to effectively counter this information, it is important that government has a strong presence as well."
The Web site includes information on the history of the sealing industry, its economic importance, utilization of the animal and humaneness of the harvest.
The Web site enables people who wish to be better informed on the sealing industry to have easy access to that information.
The Honourable Trevor Taylor, Minister of Innovation Trade and Rural Development, in cooperation with the federal Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade will be part of a delegation of individuals to Europe beginning Sunday, March 25. The delegation will meet with European Parliamentarians and media regarding the seal harvest. The delegation will be traveling to Brussels, London, Berlin and The Hague.
Budget 2006 included $100,000 for sealing industry communications. Minister Rideout said, "Communicating the facts on the sealing industry to key international audiences is an important part of government’s plan to see continued economic opportunities for rural areas in the province."
The Web page can be accessed at www.gov.nl.ca/fishaq/sealfactsheet/.
8 comments:
"OH Boy" , Nan's seal Flipper Pie reciept would do wonder's now, Mr Higgins.
"YUMMY, YUMMY ,YUMMY"
As Always,Lost-In-Exile
PS ,pass the salt please!!!!!
Oh yay.........another propaganda-ridden website by the always laughable Newfoundland government.
Now there's a message people will take seriously...NOT!
Anon of March 27, 2007 6:45 PM - From what you have written I don't or wouldn't take you seriously either. So please do not be too snub in your thoughts. To borrow a thought from your 2 sentences, I can twist that thought around to say to you: "Another propaganda ridden thought from the always laughable Canadian elitist pretenders".
Anonymous said...
Oh yay.........another propaganda-ridden website by the always laughable Newfoundland government.
Now there's a message people will take seriously...NOT!
March 27, 2007 6:45 PM
OH My God ,is "Multi-Culture Canada" now telling me what to eat.They can have certian special interst groups in Toronto Dancing half naked in leather straps on the back of a flatbed truck ,but I can't have a piece of my nan's "Flipper Pie".
Gentlemen, they wonder why I "FULLY" support the partition of this so called "FREE" country.Its only free if it's someone else's culture that is being protected.
WHY ,WHY, WHY,do we as a people put -up with this "Communist Dictorship" telling us what or how to live our live's.
Where ever it comes from.The western Block ,the Parti Quebeciuse,or maybe even us.I long for the day ,we as a nation will finally "snap" and say ,enough is enough.
I don't fear the U.S.A, or George Bush,my fear is greater."I FEAR CANADA"
As Always,Lost-In-Exile
Anon Of March 27, 2007 11:16 PM who made this statement.
QUOTE OH My God ,is "Multi-Culture Canada" now telling me what to eat.They can have certian special interst groups in Toronto Dancing half naked in leather straps on the back of a flatbed truck ,but I can't have a piece of my nan's "Flipper Pie". UNQUOTE
I AGREE WITH YOU, AND WEREN'T THOSE NAKED DANCERS IMMIGRANTS WHO WERE IMPORTED FROM EASTERN EUROPE?
I AGREE WITH YOU, AND WEREN'T THOSE NAKED DANCERS IMMIGRANTS WHO WERE IMPORTED FROM EASTERN EUROPE?
"No they were home grown Liberls!!!"
OH Boy" , Nan's seal Flipper Pie reciept would do wonder's now, Mr Higgins.
"YUMMY, YUMMY ,YUMMY"
As Always,Lost-In-Exile
PS ,pass the salt please!!!!!
I'm sure Nan's kitchen stunk to high heaven.those things are gross!
Yup ,it might have ,but it sure beats the H5NI virus ,and the "MAD COW" that is cooking in canada and around he world.
But, I can see how you would call that dirty when you've sucked back so many chemicals in your food that you cannot tell the differance.
Ask anybody that has lived away from the Island ,how incrediable a simple carrot from Newfoundland taste's,and the turnip,OH MY .
It is easy to tell ,that you have not been away ,or you have never had the experiance of the two.So until you do have that,then I feel that the discusion has come to an end .
As Always, Lost-In-Excile.
PS , who has the salt!!!
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