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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
And I still can't believe people fell for it.
"We are not a nation. We are a medium-sized municipality." - Joseph R. Smallwood.
Seriously? And people still voted for him? Absolutely pathetic.
And then we wonder why that's all that Canada treated us as.
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Well, I think Smallwood may have been a bit unrealistic, misguided and perhaps under qualified, and a bit of a dictator (Williams was also the latter), but he is vilified way too much. But those were different times. He never had any real ulterior motives than to better the province. However, there is quite a list of conspiracy theories going around, as per Greg Malone's book, etc.. I don't think Newfoundland was ever "sold"; people voted democratically for confederation. Sometimes things are just exactly what they appear to be and no more. Newfoundland was not just St. John's, even less so then, and even St. John's itself was full of poverty. Look at what our built heritage actually is; beside Water Street, the biggest industry was the Roman Catholic Church. Newfoundland also gave up it's truly independent status back in the 1930s; that's twice, and not a coincidence.
Anyway, I know some people disagree, and this is only my opinion, being said because there is so much propaganda from the other side - it made me look at these issues seriously, and that is my conclusion, at least for now.