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<\/a>Alexandra Morton . Photo submitted (2014).<\/p><\/div>\n
Morton: \u201cThe reason I\u2019m running is that, over the last twenty years, I\u2019ve seen the politics and policies that are killing off the wild salmon of this coast are also destroying our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this point, I think everyone is very worried as to what we are leaving to our children, the ones who come after us. They aren\u2019t going to get nearly as much as we got. I think it is time to figure out how to do things differently \u2026 We need to figure out how we can thrive and the environment around us can thrive. So our kids get a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere has to be solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, I am very informed about salmon and I know there is no reason to lose these fish. It is so frustrating to watch the mismanagement just go on and on.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact, we can have an\u00a0aquaculture industry<\/a>. We could have a very successful, cutting edge aquaculture industry. We have people that know how to grow fish, but it has to get out of the ocean and get onto land \u2013 like it is elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThen with the wild salmon, the ones in the ocean, there is some phenomenal science in DFO that can actually read their immune systems. So the fish then start to \u2018talk\u2019 to us and tell us what is going on. That is so exiting, it goes back to the legends of the people who were here first. They always said the salmon could talk. Now we get a chance to catch up with them and be able to do that as well. We can \u2018hear\u2019 the fish say, \u2018this is what is going on with us.\u2019 Then we can try to change our behaviour and go back to the fish and say \u2018did we make it better for you or not.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNow, I know that salmon aren\u2019t the only issue for the North Island.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo I\u2019m going to be on a steep learning curve. I want to hear from people. I don\u2019t really want to complain. We\u2019re past that. I want to know the issues and what people think are the solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m a hard worker. I\u2019m ready to learn. I have a very open mind.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFor the people who are worried about splitting the vote, I know, I hear you \u2013 I\u2019ve been one of those people.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe have seven years to change climate change around. I don\u2019t really know what we are saving ourselves for.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAs far as I am concerned, the current NDP Government has done some really good things. They\u2019ve taken us through COVID as much as is possible. A lot came at them, things that governments have never faced before. I watched a government actually listen to science, which to me \u2013\u00a0 was astonishing. I appreciate that they have spoken to us as adults because we are adults. We can take it. Also, the NDP government \u2013 when the\u00a0First Nations in the Broughton Archipelago said salmon farms are going to get out<\/a>, there is no two ways about it and here is how it is going to work \u2013 they went along with it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut on many other issues, I think they need help because if there is one thing I know, it is how hard it is to deal with these big corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n [Corporations] \u201c \u2026 have a model, which is growth. They are based on share price, not even necessarily the sale of the fish, they are based on share price. They simply have to get bigger, and bigger, and bigger \u2013 and that is not going to work in the natural world.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey just need strict rules from government and I am sure they will comply. They will carry on under new rules that have to do with sustainability \u2013 because we are all heading for the cliff.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis effort to become MLA of this fabulously rich North Island riding where I have lived for 37 years is very exciting to me.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to hearing from people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Roy L Hales Alexandra Morton is now the official Green candidate for North Island. She described her reasons for entering politics, and what needs to be done, in a quick ZOOM interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":12846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225],"tags":[1750,1749,1752],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12840"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=12840"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=12840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}