CBC news reports that residents of Labrador are complaining about the poor state of provincial highways in their part of the province.
"It's insulting that they think it's fine the way it is and that we should accept it the way it is," said [Kristin] Pardy.
Hmmm.
Makes you wonder what John Hickey has been doing with himself. He holds down a cabinet portfolio responsible for Labrador Affairs.
Hickey – who once launched a law suit against former Premier Roger grimes for something Danny Williams said – is rather proud of the roads in Labrador. When Hickey hasn’t been trying to claim to have contracts with the federal government that don’t exist, he’s been known to pose for publicity shots featuring him shovelling pavement.
The simple answer to what Hickey has been up to is shovelling something other than pavement on behalf of his federal Conservative buddies.
You can find a clip of Hickey that someone posted to twaudio of one of Hickey’s lengthy calls to local talk radio on behalf of his buddies from up-along. He’s in the middle if you really feel the need to listen to a provincial cabinet minister who has clocked more time campaigning for the federal Conservatives since 2003 than any other current member of the provincial Tory caucus.
That might be a slight exaggeration, but only a slight one.
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