Party Platform
The main goal of the party is to be an advocate for the people of Newfoundland and Labrador in the federal political lorum with only the issues of the people of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador as its mandate.
The party aims to:
- restore government services in rural communities
- Restore the promised levels of service through Marine Atlantic
- stop out migration
- support rural rights
- maintain Newfoundland and Labrador's way of life and culture
- restore traditional hunting and fishing rights
- secure joint federal-provincial management of the fishery
- extend the current 200 mile limit of exclusive economic interest in the ocean to 350 miles under Article 76 of the Law of the Sea
- develop a plan to rebuild the cod stocks
- develop integrated transportation and tourism initiatives
- develop the Lower Churchill in keeping with section 92 and 92 A of the Constitution Act, 1867/1982
- promote federal political reforms to increase equity among the provinces and territories
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