Questions for Councillors and Chamber of Commerce

(1) Twelve closures of brick and mortar businesses in the past five years/

(a) Who is working at keeping Bonavista alive?

(b) Who is working at attracting new business?

(c) Who is working at retaining educated teenagers?

(2) $250,000 is the cost of raising a child to age 18 or 21.

(d) How much money leaves Bonavista as a cash gift to the mainland each year?

(e) How much money is then lost each year to the mainland in terms of consumer goods and services?

(3) Suppose two residents of Bonavista, one working 12 months of each year, and one working only four months of each year.

(f) If you owned a six-cylinder car that was firing on only four cylinders, what would you consider doing?

(g) What is the average period of work between the two in every twelve month period, expressed as a ratio of months to a year?

(4) The tourist season in Bonavista runs for four months, from June 1st to September 30th.

(h) What would be the impact of a FIVE-month tourist season in Bonavista? (May-September)

(i) How would you extend the tourist season into May? What could be the draw card?

(5) Each spring people drive to Bonavista in the hopes of seeing an iceberg.

(j) What proportion of visitors see an iceberg? What proportion return home disappointed?

(6) The Bonavista population is defeated. “You can’t grow anything here; it’s too cold, it’s too wet, it’s too windy; it’s all rock, there’s no soil. You can’t make compost because it won’t have time to rot down”. “You can’t start a business in Bonavista; I tried once”

(k) How can this attitude be turned around?

(l) What proportion of this year’s graduating teenagers might be suitable candidates as entrepreneurs?

(m) How much support might they get from their immediate family?

Contacts

Search