Too bad ETHICS isn't the prime issue in this election.
Chretien is going to be replaced after the election by his obsequious brown-nosing understudy Tobin. Already the sad mess Tobin is responsible for is floating to the surface. If Canada has a syphilis sore it's, the native communities in Labrador that Tobin neglected. The one and a half million dollers he spent to further his political ambition would have gone a long way toward helping that sad situation!!!
Tobin's two faced dealings with the native people, INCO, and Quebec are coming home to haunt him!
Here's an article from a Labrador newspaper that indicates Tobin may not be as popular there as he thinks he is!
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rb.nf.ca
Tobin's Churchill Falls legacy Newfie joke
When Energy Minister Paul Dicks revealed last week that he knew five months ago talks with Quebec to develop the Lower Churchill River were dead, he could barely suppress a smile.
Dicks maintained he didn't bother to tell the public about the crucial news until now, because nobody asked.
Well, he should smile if he believes the public accepts that whopper.
Since former premier Brian Tobin opened talks with Quebec in 1998, the public has been consistently denied information about the status of the discussions.
Tobin, Dicks and their fellow cabinet ministers signed two side agreements with Hydro Quebec that may very well affect the nature of this province's ownership of the Upper Churchill resource, but still nary a detail has been tabled for public inspection.
All will be revealed in time, Tobin, and now Dicks, has insisted. And with Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro exempt from the province's Freedom of Information Act, there's been little we can do about it.
When PC Opposition Leader Ed Byrne accuses the Liberal government of having waged a deliberate policy of misinformation about Churchill Falls, it's hard to disagree.
The 1969 deal that Premier Joey Smallwood and his cabinet of minions signed with Hydro Quebec is widely regarded as the longest running and cruelest "Newfie" joke in this province's history.
The events of the past week have made it clear Brian Tobin and his former cabinet of apparent minions have been perpetrating a spectacular second act.
Dicks delivered the punch line when he admitted the province has long known that it makes more sense for this province to go it alone on future hydro developments in Labrador.
If that's true, what were the past two years worth of secret talks all about? What did we get for the $40 million Tobin and his cohorts spent negotiating with Quebec?
Was that $1.5-million photo opportunity Tobin staged in Churchill Falls with Lucien Bouchard two years ago the real start of his campaign to succeed Jean Chretien as federal Liberal leader?
Given all the news about Churchill Falls this past week, if voters in Bonavista-Trinity-Conception reward Mr. Tobin with victory in the federal election Nov. 27, they will be signaling their approval of this latest Newfie joke.
Joey Smallwood's colossal blunder was a hard act to follow. In his defence we have to admit he probably didn't really know what he was doing. Can we say the same of Mr. Tobin?
-- R-B News |
