No truer words…

“Right now, building a dam that produces power at four times the cost of what we can sell it for is just plain stupid.”

This pronouncement was part of a letter to the editor on Jan. 23 from Gerry Goodman (“Halt Muskrat Falls until we can afford it”). I don’t know Goodman, have never met him and perhaps never will. He is speaking, of course, about the Muskrat Falls fiasco in Labrador and, in my opinion, he is speaking for thousands, and yes, even hundreds of thousands of taxpayers in our province.

As Goodman maintains, all indications point to unbearably high power costs in the next two or three years, due mainly to the unimaginably obscene cost of this development. Why not just put the brakes on — if ever so lightly — and take a breather; perhaps steer a slightly different course, if only for a short while?

Premier Dwight Ball, at your election party in the fall you were lauded by MP Yvonne Jones as a great leader who “will listen to the people.” In the case of the Muskrat Falls project, the time for listening is now.

If you don’t take some action, I would predict that the urgent pleas for change that you hear now will become, in comparison, a weeping and gnashing of teeth by a population that literally doesn’t know where to turn.

Too late then, Mr. Premier, to say “I wish…”

Can we count on you now? That’s why we voted for you.