North Dakota newspaper editorial calls for Manitoba boycott

North Dakota newspaper editorial calls for Manitoba boycott

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

An editorial in a North Dakota newspaper is urging a boycott of Manitoba over a controversial water project.

The editorial in the Bismarck Tribune urges North Dakotans to punish the province for trying to stop the Devils Lake outlet.

The editorial incorrectly refers to the "Province of Winnipeg" and blames the dispute on an "extremist NDP provincial government."

Manitoba is concerned the outlet would end up polluting the Red River, which flows into Canada.

http://www.canada.com/fortstjohn/story.html?id=269fd48d-5fa0-427e-abe4-2871060304c6

The editorial:

We can hurt back

There should be a way to punish Canada and the province of Winnipeg for the nasty obstructionism they continue to display toward North Dakota water projects.

Devils Lake and Stump Lake have resumed submerging roads, forcing expensive new construction on local, state and federal taxpayers and miles of indirection on school buses, mail carriers and emergency responders.

Help is on the way in the form of a state outlet for Devils Lake. But, with the outlet nearly complete and at least $20 million in state money already spent on it, our northern neighbors have resumed trying to block it, lobbying the Bush administration and the North Dakota Supreme Court to force a hearing by the International Joint Commission.

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Perhaps a Winnipeg letter writer (Tribune, April 12) is correct in blaming it all on the silly socialist governments up that way -- the Liberal Party national government in Ottawa and the even more extreme New Democratic Party provincial government in Winnipeg.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2005/04/19/news/editorials/edt01.txt

Can't seem to explain to the Dakotas and Nebraska that we are already sending more water out of the Ft Peck Dam than is coming in behind it.

:shrug: Sometimes folks just don't understand how the planet's plumbing works.

I've got to laugh loudly at their truly provincial stupidity, even as I groan in unhappy anticipation of all the crap they're about to send our way with their dumb project.

:hi:

:hi: right back at you!

As one of the few Americans who actually knows that Winnipeg is in Manitoba, (I've been there), I'd like to apologize to all of you.

Please know that many of us DO know this.

You'd think that some dipshit editorial writer in North Dakota who is probably in radio reception range from Winnipeg would know this.

Sincerely,

A concerned American for better understanding of Canada.