So innovation minister Shawn Skinner will be attending Remembrance Day ceremonies at the “St. John’s National War Memorial” on Thursday.
There are at least two problems with this particular news release:
First, the National War Memorial is in St. John’s but it is not the St. John’s memorial, as this release suggests. It’s the one erected in the Dominion of Newfoundland in the 1920s as its national war memorial, hence the name.
Second, Skinner isn’t just participating, he is representing the provincial government – officially – in the one ceremony that represents the entire province. Nice if the Premier could have made it, but evidently he had something else on.
Incidentally, it was good to see the Premier on Tuesday tossing around a few softballs with former journalist Peter Walsh over at Dannyvision. All that free television across the province is especially important in polling month.
Those two huge gaffes - what Skinner will be doing and where the event takes place - are enough to make a mockery of the sentiment expressed in the release that people ought to attend a Remembrance ceremony.
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