Fraser Institute's Ben Franklin
Newfoundland and Labrador's PERSONA non grata
(except we do not want to recall him to his homeland)
Newfoundland and Labrador's PERSONA non grata
(except we do not want to recall him to his homeland)
Okay - Brian Tobin is up at the Federal Liberal Convention - and who did he support?
I guess he must have been lost in the sea of red - gasping for "clean air" as he tried to find the republican lifeboat.
You see our boy Brian has now been appointed Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute - a severely right-wing think-tank - and his role will be to work on Energy Policy for Canada and even all of North America. OMG you are all kidding right? The millions that Brian has parlayed after a failed stint as Premier proves money - not success or education - talks.
Anyway wonderboy Tobin - the "liberal" supporter has taken on a new lifestyle since leaving the peasants in Newfoundland and Labrador - he wines and dines with Canada's wealthy - buys a condo where NHL stars will be his neighbours - and now he wants to bring the same success he delivered for Newfoundland and Labrador to all of North America. Now if this does not convince you that media and elite are fairy godfathers that can turn cinder into cinderfella or a pumpkin into a BC condo or mice into men - then nothing will.
This man who gutlessly refused to debate me - when the Newfoundland and Labrador Party was a legitimately registered political party - ran and hid under Jim Furlong's coat-tails - all to do his one line rhetorical junk - is now a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute? Candidate choices must be thinning for the "old boys' club" And what right-wing values does he bring to the table - all of them - as right-wing and values are can certainly be considered an oxymoron most of the time.
Captain Canada - telling us all what to do with energy - and he'll no doubt be in contact with his buds - Danny and Dean - to help direct them - to deliver energy to Central Canada - his adopted home. You see as much as Danny rambles on and on about past Liberal governments in Newfoundland and Labrador - he does not mention Tobin's failures - for with Tobin he had somebody he could trust - perhaps he even mentored him. And Dean - well "Deano" adores Tobin - those 2 almost gave Hydro Quebec 33% ownership in the Lower Churchill development.
All the little ducks are in a row.
Dean MacDonald Chair Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro
Danny - Premier with majority and heads up the energy council for the Premiers
Brian - the Fraser Institute's answer to Ben Franklin. I wonder if we can discover a new kind of lightning rod that will protect us against the three wise-men?
By the way what has Brian done for you lately - and why did he leave home to find riches?
1 comment:
Oh My Lord - I thought we had problems before with having any possibility of having the Lower Churchill Hydro Project developed for the benefit of creating industry in the Labrador part of the province. Now I am really shivering in my boots. I am Not kidding Sue, I am frightened. Why was Mr. Tobin selected? Do they know something that we already know? I still can't get the image of Mr. Tobin and Mr. Luicen Bouchard out of my mind appearing in the 6 o'clock news a few years ago. At that time it looked like the deal was about to be signed on the Lower Churchill Hydroelectric Project, but Thank God, I believe one of the Native Groups came out against it.
Besides that Fraser Think Tank makes me shiver. It has never said a kind word about this province that I have heard. Plus those Think Tanks are created to have resources work for everywhere else West of Newfoundland and Labrador. I remember a part-time Open Line Show host, who now works for an Atlantic Canada Think Tank Agency, who had the gall to tell us that a province's resources do not create jobs, but in the meantime he was working to get Newfoundland and Labrador's resources to be developed for any place other than Newfoundland and Labrador, west of here from Nova Scotia to Ontario. Sue now we really have to keep our eyes opened and protest much louder that this project does not get developed for Central Canada's benefit. The Lower Churchill Hydroelectric project can only be allowed to be developed if it is for the benefit of Labrador.
By the way when are we going to grow out of childhood in this province and stand up for the rights of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians? That means having our resources developed and used for the benefit of this beleagured province. When I say, we, I mean our politicians, the politicians are the ones whom we elected/hired to do this important work for us. It is time that they took the bull by the horn and notified Ottawa that Newfoundland and Labrador will be the primary beneficiary of any further resources development in this province. It is the politicians who we elect, who will have to do that, and I want to see the politicians that I have elected to start doing just that immediately.
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