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Concerns expressed at South Queens Chamber of Commerce annual general meeting

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Gerald Keddy speaks at the South Queens Chamber of Commerce's annual general meeting at the Best Western in Liverpool June 25. More than 100 people went to the meeting.

Published on June 26, 2012; Published on June 26, 2012
Aethne Hinchliffe

Gerald Keddy, Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shore-St. Margaret’s, said he understands the challenges that are ahead.

Topics :: South Queens Chamber of Commerce , The Queens County Advance , Liverpool , Yarmouth

He spoke these words to a crowd of more than 100 people during the South Queens Chamber of Commerce’s annual general meeting at the Best Western in Liverpool June 25.

“Although I don’t think there are any silver bullets, I do think that there needs to be a serious discussion on making rash decisions,” said Keddy from the podium. “It is not an entirely doom-gloom situation, and there are still opportunities, and there are still jobs.”

After cautioning the crowd about making quick decisions, Keddy took questions from the crowd.

Audience members asked a number of questions, including some about the mill’s closure; the Yarmouth ferry and Queens County’s revitalization plan among others.

The meeting, slated to end at 7 p.m., wrapped up about 45 minutes later.

For information about the South Queens Chamber of Commerce, visit its website at http://www.southqueenschamber.com/

See the July 3 issue of The Queens County Advance for the full story.

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Fred Giffin

- June 26, 2012 at 11:18:25

Understandably the closure of the mill would be the principle topic of concern at this meeting with Keddy, but too bad a few fishermen didn't attend the meeting to ask why he didn't take a stand against the provincial goverment lifting the moratorium on open pen fish farming in Port Mouton Bay. This of course was followed by a $25 million loan and grant issue to Cooke Aquaculture to continue to pollute the Nova Scotia shoreline with megatons of salmon excrement, antibiotics and food waste, rendering the area under and near the site a dead zone with nothing but anaerobic sludge. For lobsters and other species, this is the same as running an open sewer line to your neighbour's back yard, and if he can't live with that he will have to move somewhere else. Of course Keddy is part of the government that compensates Cooke when thousands of fish die of disease. So Cooke is the only winner here. He gets paid for dead fish, and he uses government money from taxpayers who are almost unanimously opposed to this poisonous business with the blessing of the NDP government, who not long ago joined in the protest. Oh, yes, too bad Keddy hadn't been at least asked about this travesty.

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