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Reconsidering AVI and CounterSpin

On 2nd thought maybe this was a good show: ideas & different voices

(see Part 1 for less + view)

Ideas: economies of scale & small scale economies theme

The opening 5 minutes or so of the show was a film essay that set the scene for CounterSpin  viewers.

In some ways the best part of the show, a lot of thought and research were condensed into a small time. Left is Avi at SCI pulp mill, dwarfed by the scale of the mill

 

 

Small Boat Fleet

Des got some of the best lines—appeared Avi had gone out with Des in his gillnetter. ‘We live here, we spend our $ here, but the government etc has run us out and only the big guys remain’ (my paraphrase .

 

Let the People Speak

But most of us spoke as role players: Primary producers (fishers in this case)
differed across ideological backgrounds from Merchants; and the latter differed from service industry people though less so

Service Sector

City Councilors who spoke (3) were all in favor of removing the oil and gas moratorium.

Bedard saw opportunity for Youth and Kennedy saw role to invest “profits” in some sort of trust fund for future.

Neither seemed to doubt the oil existed in huge quantities nor that anything negative might happen

 

Greene surprised me

Paddy was for removing the moratorium, but only if jobs were assured from the beginning.

‘Otherwise leave it in the ground’

He was thus closer to other fishers than the merchants who see only > cash flow, thus prosperity (for them)

 

Rhoda surprised too

Neither gung-ho supporter nor an opponent.

Her point seemed to be that we could not rationally choose until we had more information about what was really out there in Hecate. (Remove the exploration but keep decision if produce?

I doubt if oil companies would agree.

 

Bootstraps

Both older man, Robert and the young lad were in favor. Both seeing opportunity for youth and both seeming to take approach of Belsey: a self-made man: ‘just give us a chance and we will work our own way up’

 

Ian too?

Another of the people who seemed to be saying that we can negotiate ourselves a good  or better deal, so stop whining.

(or that is how I understood him)

 

Several other young people spoke surprisingly as more cautious and thoughtful than elders

 

First Nations—Unfortunately the show in its brashness often left the more restrained on the side lines; TV sought the brash and loud.