The top spot goes to Federal Minister of Justice Rob Nicholson - please remember now this man is the Justice Minister - and he apparently does not understand how laws are made!
By doing the typical Conservative Harper Jig - blaming the Liberals for flawed legislation - he made all of his colleagues look like idiots.
This of course is referencing the problems discovered in the Civil Marriage Act and reported by the global media this week.
So Minister Nicholson - there were Conservatives in the House of Commons when the Act was being passed - why didn't they pick up the problems?
In one fell swoop Nicholson exposed a nasty reality. The people we employ - first and foremost to sit in our legislatures to make, amend, and repeal laws - are not engaged. Of course in Newfoundland and Labrador they avoid that problem by not opening the House of Assembly to begin with.
As people we should be disgusted.
Next up is former Premier Danny Williams and his re-entry into the media spotlight - despite saying it's not what he'd do after he left politics. Problem is his baby project is being attacked. Dunderdale is having problems ushering through - without critique - the flawed Muskrat Falls development.
Dunderdale was chosen by Williams on his way out - and she was to get this deal through. Apparently despite Williams's contention that the Premier is doing a great job in getting information out to the public - he felt it necessary to play clean-up. Williams is banking on his formidable record of public support to wave his wand and state all is well with Muskrat Falls.
The question is why would media give it the time of day? He is the former Premier - he left the project unfinished and returned to the private sector. The private sector does include companies salivating to get their hands on some of the 6 billion dollars you and I will pay for.
His PC Party - led by his chosen replacement is doing a "great job" - so why did he feel the need to enter the fray? That's one question that should be asked - the second should be if he is involved in any company that may in any way benefit from this development? That is a fair question now - as the current Premier has no problem questioning the agendas of critics to the deal.
As people we should be disgusted.
Finally there is Shawn Skinner former PC MHA and Cabinet Minister - the Minister responsible for the deal prior to being defeated in the fall election by NDP Gerry Rogers.
He says that if he was in Cabinet now - the recommendation would be to hold a special session of the House of Assembly to debate the Muskrat development. Surely he could have set that process up when he WAS the Minister. If that had happened it would look really bad if the Premier wiped out a process set-up by her former Minister. So the questions are:
When you were the Minister - why didn't you set up a process that would see such a debate?
When you were Minister - did you actually ask that this process be set-up?
If you did ask - why was it rejected by your Cabinet colleagues?
If you did not ask - why not - and why now?
As people we should be disgusted.
5 comments:
Disgusted is putting it mildly, Sue.
Keep up the great work.
"The question is why would media give it the time of day? He is the former Premier - he left the project unfinished and returned to the private sector. The private sector does include companies salivating to get their hands on some of the 6 billion dollars you and I will pay for.
His PC Party - led by his chosen replacement is doing a "great job" - so why did he feel the need to enter the fray? That's one question that should be asked - the second should be if he is involved in any company that may in any way benefit from this development? That is a fair question now - as the current Premier has no problem questioning the agendas of critics to the deal.
As people we should be disgusted."
...We stopped him and asked him for his input. He didn't come to us. You need to get facts straight.
Well - you went to him? Why - who is you? And that being the case did you bother to ask if he had any current interests in the project?
Regardless - Danny could have said no comment - "I said when I left I would not do this".
Same thing.
He could have capped the no comment with ask the current Premier she is doing a great job.
See the point now?
Further - if you choose to identify which media outlet you are commenting on behalf of then perhaps - you could have advised the public - we went to Danny Williams seeking comment - then you can tell us why.
Sue, you are 100 per cent right and you have been for Twenty or more years now. You have advocated on our behalf for at least that long. I have known you to do since I first became aware that you even existed, that was when you rebelled against the selling off/give away of our Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro Corporation. You won that War.
But Sue because of your views, which are accurate and protective of your fellow Newfoundlanders and Labradorians' rights to their natural resources, you will always be attacked by those who want control over our natural resources for their own personal economy growth.
The very argument that is going on now around the Muskrat Falls proposed contract, which apparently is on course, if it goes ahead, to bankrupting our province, especially in an age where countries in Europe and the United States, itself, are so financially strapped and have been downgraded by Standard and Poors, that they are likely to bring down Financial Institutions in North America. Afterall it is a Global Economy and everything is entertwined. This is according to some of the experts who appear on BNN/Business Network News, our major Canadian business network.
We Newfoundlanders and Labradorians have to stay strong against this Contract and demand that it only be taken on at the time when the stars are aligned for the Muskrat Falls Project to be viable.
PLEASE KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK SUE, SOMETIMES IT MUST FEEL LIKE IT IS A VERY LONELY WORLD AND I KNOW IT MUST FEEL, AT TIMES, TO YOU, THAT YOU, ALONE ARE TAKING ON THE WORLD.
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