One of the
most worrisome aspects of Premier Dwight Ball's leadership is confirmation that he does not understand the critical issues facing the province and he is blissfully content in
his ignorance.
Former
Premier Dunderdale suffered the same malady. She, too, seemed confused
— especially with respect to Nalcor, the Muskrat Falls project, and the
relationship between development costs and market value of the power. The only difference is that Ball is less imperious.
Premiers Tom
Marshall and Paul Davis were slightly more articulate but both men either did not understand
their briefs or deliberately misled the public. They, like Danny Williams, were
never reticent about boasting of the province’s good fortune — Newfoundland and Labrador, they said, was going to
earn hundreds of millions from the Muskrat Falls project. Of course, it just
wasn’t true.
With the
election of Premier Ball, mindlessness to facts received no appeal.
