CraicBaby

July 2, 1992 was my fifth birthday, and the day my father lost his job. John Crosbie, the Minister of Fisheries, told us in the north that we couldn't fish anymore. It was only supposed to be a two-year moratorium, and it was only supposed to affect those of us in northern Newfoundland and southern Labrador. The two years passed, however, and the cod stocks were just as low as ever. Fisheries had been shut down all over the province, and the length of the moratorium was changed to "indefinite." On my tenth birthday, there was no celebration, for, not only was it the tenth anniversary of my birth, it was also the fifth anniversary of the "Day