01 September 2007

Fabian Manning: Fear suffering fear monger

Fabian Manning is desperately afraid he will lose his seat in the next federal election.

How do you explain fear mongering, let alone his weather office stunt the week the Liberal caucus was in town?

How do you explain taking what is essentially an anti-environmental stand in a province where the environment is pretty darned important?

How do you take an anti-environmental stand when your riding includes Placentia Bay and its delicate marine eco-system and its oil industry all existing in a balance people work very hard to protect?

Basically, Manning is trying to play the fear of lost jobs at a place like Bull Arm, it's an old stunt and it's pretty obvious. Manning cannot cite a single source of evidence for his claim, outside the Connie caucus or its research bureau.

By the by, on that gander thing, someone should have asked Fabian if the caucus should go see where aviation forecasting - that used to be done at Gander - is taking place. The Connies promised to replace public, marine and aviation forecasting, if memory serves.

Or maybe people could go visit the 650 new soldiers in Goose Bay, welcoming the arrival of the unmanned aerial vehicle squadron.

A good guy, Manning, but lately given to these poorly thought out stunts rather than solid delivery.

At least, Fabe isn't like two of his unsuccessful colleagues from the last election, Conservative candidates whose campaigns are implicated in the in-and-out election financing scandal.

Heavens knows what bizarre claims Fabe would be trying then.

-srbp-