Premier Kathy Dunderdale wants everyone in the province to get involved in the fishery debate. Doesn’t matter who you are. Doesn’t matter what you want. Get in and have your say on the future of the resource we all own.
CBC’s Azzo Rezzori says Kathy is staying out of the way. [Story starts at about 9:00 of this video link]
Others would call it what it is: chickenshit.
In a scrum with reporters on Friday, Dunderdale rattled off all the penetrating insights into the obvious one can find about the fishing industry in the province. The Telegram’s James McLeod has a neat account of it for those who want to catch up.
Yes, Kathy, we all know the problems. And yes, we know the solutions because, yes, they’ve been talked about, discussed, debated and ignored for decades.
Yes, Kathy, we know people are using the fishery to their own ends. Yes, we know lots of people are being manipulated.
What Dunderdale conveniently omits is that the provincial government has a role to play. After all, the law in this province gives the provincial government considerable power to manipulate the fishery and the people who depend on it for their living.
What Dunderdale conveniently forgets is that successive administrations haven’t been shy about doing just that. The one Kathy has been involved with since 2003 has been one of the most interfering and manipulative administrations in a long list of them.
What Kathy deliberately omits to mention is the process – the MOU – that the Tory administration started and then rejected because they were afraid of the political consequences.
The costs don’t frighten them. That was just a bullshit excuse the fisheries minister used. Kathy has more money sitting in the bank - doing nothing - than some of her predecessors got in total from their own means to pay for everything the government does.
Billions of dollars.
So when Kathy Dunderdale clucks about the tragedy of manipulating people and the tired attitudes about the need for everyone people to come together to find a solution, she is being worse than the worst kind of manipulative character she laments.
Kathy has the power to change things.
Kathy has the power to set things right.
Kathy refuses to get involved.
That’s not just chickenshit.
That’s immoral.
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