1. What a total waste of time! What politician, any time in the history of human civilization ever went on a lovely trip to a foreign land entirely at taxpayers’ expense and came back proclaiming that the junket was anything but “productive”?
2. The St. Petersburg economic forum was about attracting investment to Russia. Is the Lower Churchill underwater line now going to run to Murmansk, he asked facetiously?
3. Dear Ladies and Gentlemen of Facebook… As for anyone being invited, the SPIEF organizers extended the exclusive invitation to everyone on Facebook. Find any mention of Canada – let alone Newfoundland and Labrador – on the official Twitter feed for SPIEF.
4. The event ends tomorrow. Wasn’t the release announcing the glorious events of the trip a wee bit premature? Don’t anybody mention quotas of happy news.
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