According to FFAW/CAW the provincial government has all the necessary information it needs in hand and that it needs to move quickly towards fulfilling the promise to provide assistance to those who have been hardest hit during the 2009 fishing season.
The leaders of FFAW/CAW leaders and members have met with Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Tom Hedderson and officials from the Departments of Human Resources, Labour and Employment (HRLE) and Municipal and Provincial Affairs (MAPA) in early August to make a case for emergency assistance for people struggling as a result of depressed seafood markets.
The FFAW agreed it would do the work necessary to identify the extent of the problem. That work included conducting meetings and canvassing members throughout the province. FFAW Secretary-Treasurer David Decker comments that on the first week of August the province told us that the information was needed so that a proposal could be put before cabinet for funding to help out those facing the worst struggles.
Decker told that they have completed a monumental task in a very short period of time when we delivered all the information they wanted. The province has had this information for several weeks now. This is a matter of serious urgency and all we are asking is that the process move forward, says Decker.
