Life and Times of Labrador West's Pioneers - 7

Labrador City would boom if Voisey’s Bay and the Lower Churchill could get up and going.
Some potential growth in such areas as silica, graphite, and spin-offs including a smelter.
As long as the ore body and the world price stay as is, it will carry on.
Continuation of the status quo at least, and optimistically, further expansion if the Voisey Bay project proceeds and Labrador City is able to participate as a supply base for both Voisey Bay and other communities served by the Trans-Labrador Highway.
I see a prosperous future for Labrador City.

It is difficult to say, not much I could recommend.
Infra-structure: a senior's complex and a Gateway Heritage Complex would round things out.
I would not make any changes, I am happy with things as they are.
The prohibiting of residence-based businesses which compete at an unfair overhead cost advantage with established commercial enterprises occupying rental space in the town's many under-utilized office/shopping complexes.
No response.

Considering the amount of money flowing from West Labrador into the provincial treasury, do you think the town and its citizens get a fair return? Why or why not? If you think change is needed, what do you think citizens can do to make it happen?

No, Labrador West does not get a fair return. We need the highway paved. The only time we see government members is when they need something; then they show up in Labrador West.
Practical political choices might help our lobby efforts.
No, I do not think Labrador City gets its fair share of the pie. Especially in our hospital system. I am disgusted with how much goes to Goose Bay whilst we seem to stand on the sidelines.
Definitely not...because Island politicians outnumber our few Labrador MHA's. Nothing has changed in this regard since I arrived in Labrador in 1960. For a brief period in the early 1970's, when Tom Burgess and the New Labrador Party held the balance of power, change could have been effected, but it was not to be. There is nothing citizens can do to change the situation so long as Labrador remains a colony of Newfoundland, other than to elect the loudest-voiced, most articulate, charismatic candidate as our representative in the governing party.
No, we do not get our fair share.