SIOBHAN COADY OK WITH STURGE’S BOUGHT SILENCE

It is tough to be kind to the Ball Administration. They cause members of the public to label them “lame” and “dumb”. On what basis should they think differently?

The Liberals ought to have immediately understood the rationale for Nalcor’s $900,000 parting gift to VP and CFO Derrick Sturge and stopped the move. Even a modicum of intelligence would have helped them see through his “without cause” departure, complete — the Uncle Gnarley Blog has learned — with “Confidentiality Agreement” attached. The Agreement was key to the whole arrangement. It would provide the assurance Nalcor needed that Sturge’s lips would remain zippered about Executive complicity in Nalcor’s $12.7 billion debacle.

A STORY OF POLITICAL CHAOS: PUBLIC SHOULD DEMAND NEW BUDGET

The Government’s first Budget, one entitled “Restoring Fiscal Confidence and Accountability”  will do nothing of the kind. It is, in brief, something akin to a “sick joke”; except the April “fools” are the ones the public just elected.

This is a Budget which the Liberal Government’s PR builders assured would reflect the beginning of some political leadership, absent so far; the kind that would rectify Tory incompetence.

What the province got, instead, was the blunt artistry of a clique of deceivers.

The Government has confirmed, again, Nalcor CEO Ed Martin is firmly in charge.  

It takes no great mind to figure out the singular agenda of Finance Minister Cathy Bennett, even if it is lost on union leaders of NAPE and CUPE, that the Province took a very retrogressive step, yesterday. Instead of stepping back, this Liberal Government has actually advanced our collective march over a very steep fiscal cliff.