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| Cartoon Credit: Anthony Rockel |
That is
unfortunate. If there was ever a time when the province needed a clear plan and
someone with the ability to communicate it, it is now. In the last Speech from the Throne, the
Government promised “decisive actions… with Budget 2016 followed by… medium and
long term actions…” Those are still absent. Then, too, it has been a year in
which fumbling — from library closures to Ed Martin’s severance — compounded by
Ball's own incapacity for articulation, has left the government severely weakened.
This year it
needed to be ready with a coherent document that presaged a Budget styled for
crisis. It could muster no such a strategic focus.
