Paul Oram: Minister of Revisionist History
Former business minister Paul Oram did a series of interviews when he was in Atlanta last October to attend a trade mission.
His interview on diversifying the economy is interesting mostly because Oram manages to completely cock-up just about everything.
According to Oram, the cod moratorium took place in the “early to mid-1980s”.
If you think that was a slip of the tongue consider that according to Oram, once the moratorium started, we then turned to diversifying the economy with mining for things like iron ore and uranium. Iron ore mining dates back to the 1890s, not the 1980s and as for uranium, there isn’t a functioning uranium in the province at the moment. There never has been one. There are prospects but no actual mine.
The Lower Churchill will start up within the coming year (i.e. 2009) according to Oram, even though the thing had not even started the environmental review process when he did the interview. It won’t complete the process until 2010-2011.
When asked about innovation, Oram couldn’t give an example. Instead, he talked about the difference between his department and the innovation department.
We’ll be generous and say that oram sounded like the minister of revisionist history.
Others might say he was the minister of the “Don’t know a Damn Thing” department.
Oh.
Incidentally, just count the number of times Oram says “to be honest with you.”
We assume he is being honest. It’s just that he honestly doesn’t have a clue about recent events in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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6 comments:
Oh dear. If it wasn't so pathetic it'd be funny. And he's been in charge of the Department of Business? You'd think he'd know this stuff. The bad news is, now he's in charge of health.
Geoff:
What we are talking about here is the sort of information that should be common knowledge especially for politicians and cabinet ministers.
if people making decisions don't know the basics how much else don't they know and how much is beign screwed up as a result?
These days I'm more inclined to wonder what it says about the people and political party apperatus that allow dopes like this to be in a position where stupidity will get people hurt.
Good point Greg.
I'd just look, as well, though, at the fact that Oram isn't really any different from a lot of people out there.
Randy Simms top 10 accomplishment list a couple of weeks ago contained a few glaring wrong statements.
The whole Equalization racket was built on complete disregard for what actually happened and happens with that. People are still running around saying things that aren't true. (They likely don't know they aren't true, BTW)
Heck, how many people think that the billions in oil revenues came from the 2005 offshore one-time payment or something else that the current administration has done?
I am not just talking about the Kool-Aid Brigade. I am talking about your average, ordinary person who considers himself or herself well informed.
There's no need to wonder what it says about the people or political parties. That's pretty clear. By abandoning political parties decades ago, critical-thinking members of our society have voluntarily passed the reins over, in large part, to complete nincompoops. It really is that simple.
The solution is pretty simple also.
Nicely put, Mark.
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