Government
Karen Oldford has served as mayor since Janice Barnes resigned in May 2012.
Since the 2011 election, the federal riding of Labrador seat has been held by Peter Penashue, a Conservative Party member. The Labrador City town crest features a Snowy Owl holding a scroll perched atop a black spade on a mound of red earth, symbolizing iron ore mining. The spade is flanked by two caribou. Both Snowy Owls and caribou are native to the Labrador City area.
The Labrador City town motto is Kamistiatusset, a Naskapi word meaning "land of the hard-working people."
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Famous quotes containing the word government:
“Doctor, I want you to make it known to your government that it can trust us implicitly, for we do not want any of your territory. We only want your trade.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“[F]rom Saratoga [N.Y.] till we got back to Northampton [Mass.], was then mostly desert. Now it is what 34. years of free and good government have made it. It shews how soon the labor of man would make a paradise of the whole earth, were it not for misgovernment, and a diversion of all his energies from their proper object, the happiness of man, to the selfish interests of kings, nobles and priests.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“What is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?”
—James Madison (1751–1836)