This ex-pat doesn’t miss N.L.’S political blunderings
I read with interest Pam Frampton’s series of great columns on Muskrat Falls (“Muskrat Falls — yes, it’s personal”). And despite how dire the future predictions are based on Muskrat Falls, I will remain an ex-pat for a larger reason — the incompetence and lack of professionalism demonstrated by Newfoundland and Labrador’s current MHAS and a long history of waste.
This administration is by far and away the worst government since Confederation. The spectacle over harassment allegations is just the latest but most potent example of that. Just imagine, a corporation worth billions, with its board of directors behaving in this fashion. Tell me if you are wealthy, would you be willing to invest your time, energy and, most importantly, your money in the likes of that?
Former premier Brian Peckford said many, many years ago, “Someday the sun will shine and have not will be no more.” When Brian, when?
Future premiers should be asking themselves, how am I going to grow the province in a way that does not involve wasting millions and millions of public funds and just keep repeating past mistakes?
That being an ultra-left socialist (PC or Liberal) like all former premiers just doesn’t work should now be apparent after 70 years of failure. It would also be a bad idea to hire thousands and thousands more civil servants when N.L. is already overrun with them or to just leave when the timing is “just right” to collect a whole pile of pensions.
Brad Wall recently retired from public life after a decade of being premier of Saskatchewan. Unfortunately, I didn’t make it to the farewell banquet last November where he deservedly enjoyed a lot of praise and a toast from N.L.’S best news commentator ever, Rex Murphy. Let’s see, the accomplishments while in office: no reliance on the provincial civil service to be a job factory — check; grew the population by over 150,000 — check; grew the private sector, etc. — check.
I wanted to shake Wall’s hand for a job well done — something I would never do to any N.L. premier.
He is really retired, too. He is not back working for government as a $500-per-hour consultant and collecting public pensions. Wall is in the private sector where he belongs.
John Lynch Saskatoon