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Prime Minister Mark Carney is successful Newfoundland and Labrador to motorboat his archetypal national predetermination run rally, and food harvesters are protesting successful mentation of his accomplishment pursuing the merchandise of a reduced yearly snowfall crab quota.
Prime Minister Mark Carney volition talk successful N.L. connected Sunday evening
Jenna Head · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 23, 2025 4:07 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago
Newfoundland and Labrador's food harvesters rapidly rallied connected Sunday day pursuing cuts to the snow crab fishery and what they telephone the Liberals' mismanagement of the fisheries.
About 100 people crowd gathered peacefully extracurricular national Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson's run bureau successful St. John's with the anticipation of receiving an mentation for large cuts to harvesting snowfall crab successful the 3K area. The division is losing astir a 4th of past year's full allowable drawback astatine 7,643 tonnes, down from 9,998 tonnes successful 2024.
Fish, Food, and Allied Workers (FFAW) president Dwan Street said she was cautiously optimistic astir Thompson taking connected the fisheries portfolio.
She hoped that Thompson, a chap Newfoundlander, would marque decisions to payment communities successful her province.
"I person ne'er successful my beingness seen the radiance travel disconnected a fisheries curate arsenic accelerated arsenic I person with Minister Thompson," Street said. "It was a governmental win. She was handed a aureate opportunity."
The assemblage invited Thompson and Prime Minister Mark Carney, who volition beryllium successful St. John's this evening for his archetypal run rally, to code the protesters.
The FFAW aboriginal changed their plans and instructed food harvesters to protestation extracurricular The Rooms, an creation assemblage and depository wherever Carney had been readying to speak. Carney's event has since been moved to the St. John's Convention Centre, and the protesters program follow.
FFAW In-shore president Jason Sullivan said the Liberals are sidesplitting agrarian Newfoundland.
"No 1 gives a f - - - astir Newfoundland," Sullivan told the crowd. "When you find c taxation Carney this evening, you've got to amusement him you're not weak."
The FFAW has advised CBC that the protestation is prepared to determination if the determination of Carney's run rally changes.
More to come.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jenna Head is simply a writer moving with the CBC bureau successful St. John's. She tin beryllium reached by email astatine [email protected].
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