Today Colombia, tomorrow Newfoundland

 Just the other day I was reading one of the Globe and Mail’s top guns referring to Colombia as a “successful democracy.”

That’s the sort of air-head reportage we’ve come to expect from the Globe, sadly.

Seems the people of Colombia are somewhat out of sorts with their democracy. Not that our top-drawer journalists would notice, but the people of Newfoundland might. I’m guessing the run-of-the-mall folks in Newfoundland will take to their “big reset” about as well as their peers down south.

That’s where we’re all headed, in case you were wondering. These staggering hundreds of billions in deficits we have incurred fighting that deadly ole virus are gonna have to be paid back, don’t ya know!

And that will require much belt-tightening (ie gutting social programs all over the place but going full steam ahead on our 60 billion dollar commitment to a new warship fleet so we can “stand with our allies” as they provoke nuclear war with Russia and China), raising taxes, and selling off what’s left of the public domain.

That last part could be a game-changer for the Newfies. They’ve got tons of assets just doing nothing. Imagine if a savvy international investor, like Sheldon Adelson for example,was to buy Gros Morne Park. Newfoundland could become the Macau of the North Atlantic in no time!

I’m hoping the Newfies will follow the example of the Colombians.