NDP Leader Lorraine Michael says she is not afraid to rip up a contract with the Hebron partners to deliver a three per cent surtax promised in her party's new election platform.
But, in an interview with On Point With David Cochrane, Michael admits that she is not sure how an NDP government would accomplish this, even though the Hebron agreement with the government specifically says the contract cannot be changed.
Understand, first of all, Lorraine and campaign team did not even know about the Hebron fiscal agreements limitation on adding new taxes until someone pointed it out.
Now their campaign platform a smouldering heap. The financial responsibility thing they were shooting for is gone.
They have no answers.
If the NDP knew how to get around the problem, they’d tell you. it should be very easy for them. But Lorraine and her gang are flummoxed because they don’t know what they are talking about.
So they fall back on the usual politician’s stock-in-trade.
Bluster, bluff and bullshit all start with the same letter because they are basically the same thing. Lorraine Michael and the NDP have nothing but those three “B” words to offer now that their fiscally responsible election platform – coughbullshitcough – flaps in tatters in the wind.
And understand, second of all, that the much bigger problem is the give-away in the Hebron deal itself, all thanks to Danny and Kathy.
Lorraine could have easily pointed that out to everyone.
But she didn’t.
Because she and her crew had no idea what was going on in the first place.
And they still don’t.
Bluff, bluster and bullshit produced the give-away in the first place.
Unfortunately, bluff, bluster and bullshit won’t make her huge credibility problems go away.
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