Last week,
Columnist Konrad Yakabuski, in an opinion piece entitled "Muskrat Falls and the Power of Obstinacy" had a lot to say about Newfoundland and Labrador Premiers, in
just a few short sentences.
He was
unimpressed that a bungling Premier Kathy Dunderdale’s response to our power
black-outs could have been so unlike Ontario Premier Wynne’s deft handling of
Toronto’s. Dunderdale, Wynne, he noted was “...sugar, spice and all
things nice...”
But it was Dunderdale’s
characterisation of the outages as a “non-crises” and her assertion that, in
retrospect ”she would not have done things differently” that caused Yakabuski’s
to share his previously unknown theories about the collective peculiarities of NL
Premiers.
Dunderdale’s
lack of empathy did not constitute news down here; we’ve seen it many times before. For that reason there is far
less certainty all our Premiers deserve Konrad’s assignation to any Dunderdale populated Club.
