{"id":53921,"date":"2016-04-20T21:17:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T03:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=53921"},"modified":"2016-04-20T02:18:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T09:18:54","slug":"etca-is-it-worth-it-and-why-the-hurry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/04\/20\/etca-is-it-worth-it-and-why-the-hurry\/","title":{"rendered":"ETCA- is it worth it and why the hurry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If we cant handle the errant Indian fishermen stealing our fish, poaching on our waters, ruining our marine bed….<\/u><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

do you seriously think our policy makers can handle a country with 1.3billion people?<\/u><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

This is an agreement that will affect all Sri Lankans – Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, Burghers…UNP, SLFP, JVP, JHU,TNA, SLMC etc etc\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

It is one thing to do business with another country.<\/p>\n

It is a totally different thing if a country allows open visa to a country that has a population of 1.3billion and 80% of its population are illeterate and millions and millions are jobless.<\/p>\n

With the road and rail bridge also opening up and 76million Tamil Nadu Tamils free to arrive when earlier they had been arriving as illegal immigrants, just imagine the status quo when the GOSL officially agrees to allow Indians to start up business, bring in their families to live and work in Sri Lanka, bring laborers from India….how will this affect Sri Lanka long term?<\/p>\n

Will Sri Lankans get jobs?<\/p>\n

Will Sri Lankans have land or will that too be purchased by Indians now that the GOSL has removed the restrictions on land purchase to foreigners?<\/p>\n

Will Sri Lanka have enough resources to meet electricity, water and other requirements?<\/p>\n

Will Sri Lanka have its sovereignty when Indians politicians will exert power over and influence Sri Lanka’s politicians because a growing number of Indians will be living in Sri Lanka?<\/p>\n

These are issues that Sri Lankans need to seriously think about.<\/p>\n

If we cant handle errant Indian fishermen stealing our fish, poaching on our waters, ruining our marine bed….do you seriously think our policy makers can handle a country with 1.3billion people?<\/p>\n

Your job, your business, your children’s future, your future will all get affected.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We all must have a nation to call our own ETCA will deny us this right.<\/p>\n

Prof Sumanasiri Liyanage –\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Za_j9RAUOuM<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. T. Lalithasiri Gunaruwan –\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WirEmNbMkuw<\/a><\/p>\n

Archt. Nalaka C. Jayaweera –\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zSIYfAcKJkM<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Lasantha Wickremasinghe –\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dP4vUb8Lqbo<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya –\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ff4khqGRuew<\/a><\/p>\n

Please pass on to educate others, except the idiots who think they are pundits.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are three issues concurrently on the boil<\/p>\n

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1) ETCA<\/p>\n

2) Bridge<\/p>\n

3) Devolution via Const change<\/p>\n

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FUNNY NOBODY IS DISCUSSING THE DEVOLUTION ISSUES BEING DISCUSSED?<\/p>\n

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If we cant handle the errant Indian fishermen stealing our fish, poaching on our waters, ruining our marine bed…. do you seriously think our policy makers can handle a country with 1.3billion people? This is an agreement that will affect all Sri Lankans – Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, Burghers…UNP, SLFP, JVP, JHU,TNA, SLMC etc etc\u2026\u2026 It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}