Guest Post by Ron Penney
The following segment is the third of three containing speaking notes from my presentation to the Wessex Society on October 14, 2020. The presentation is available at the Wessex Society of Newfoundland, wessexsociety.ca - Ron Penney
The Democratic Deficit
While the Commissioner declined to get into the broader issues which we urged him to consider he did have a short chapter titled “Dealing with Opposition to the Project” which focused on the reaction of project proponents to the critics and naysayers, or, as my brother Neil, described us - the Muskrateers!
The Commissioner described the project proponents response to the critics as “at times unbalanced and disproportionate to the commentary.”
In particular he referenced Mr. Williams characterization of us as “bottom feeders”.
