CedarTea on Nostr: So what Smallwood pitched was the Canadian minimum wage, the pogy, and the baby ...

So what Smallwood pitched was the Canadian minimum wage, the pogy, and the baby bonus. This was especially popular in the outports where they never saw any of the war money that came into St. John's. What was not allowed on the table was that NL could develop these things themselves. The powerful merchant class was running the No ballot, under such pricks as the Cashin and Crosbie who wanted to keep a stranglehold in the name of their business interests.