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Bill: Redistribution of fish stocks
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialist Workers Union
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 2363
Description[?]:
| As it stands a number of big companies fish for er fish and they should follow fishing quotas but we have reason to believe that they do not, they also bully and threaten the local fishing industries that still exist. We propose that the fishing industry is nationalised and fishing quotas given to smaller companies and family fishermen which will be easier to check up on quotas. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Commercial fishing regulation.
Old value:: The government establishes fishing quotas.
Current: Local governments can establish fishing quotas
Proposed: The fishing industry is nationalised, and the government sets production levels.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:29:44, February 10, 2007 CET | From | Iqembu Sokusebenzisana Yeningi | To | Debating the Redistribution of fish stocks |
| Message | Replacing monolithic corporations with monolithic bureaucracy. We oppose. |
| Date | 17:10:13, February 11, 2007 CET | From | National Conservative Party | To | Debating the Redistribution of fish stocks |
| Message | The NCP opposes. The SWU may think only big companies are involved in fishing but the NCP knows many family-run fishing boats that have hundreds of years of tradition fishing our bountiful waters. What right do we have to stop them? |
| Date | 18:43:42, February 11, 2007 CET | From | Socialist Workers Union | To | Debating the Redistribution of fish stocks |
| Message | It is because we want to protect family run fisheries that we feel the best way is to nationalise it and give generous quotas to them rather then give them to the big operator owned fishing companies. |
| Date | 19:45:27, February 13, 2007 CET | From | National Conservative Party | To | Debating the Redistribution of fish stocks |
| Message | They would then be at the mercy of bureaucrats who would tell them what to fish, where to fish, when to fish, how to fish, and so on. They would become nothing more than government-controlled drones. |
| Date | 20:38:13, February 15, 2007 CET | From | Ikradone Nationalsozialistische Partei | To | Debating the Redistribution of fish stocks |
| Message | Due to the nature of fishing, we, even though often supporting centralization, cannot support this measure. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 145 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 454 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In order for a Cabinet bill to pass, more than half of the legislature must vote for it and all of the parties included in the proposed Cabinet must support it. If your nation has a Head of State who is also the Head of Government, then the party controlling this character must also vote for the bill, since the Head of Government is also a member of the Cabinet. If any of these requirements are not met, the bill will not pass. |
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