FFAW boss Earle McCurdy responded on Friday to comments by OCI’s Martin Sullivan that the FFAW, among other things, had threatened to shut OCI down and had proposed closing the Fortune plant in exchange for trying to get some provincial government money to help OCI refurbish the Marystown plant.
Here are Earle’s comments as reported by CBC:
“What Mr. Sullivan is saying is a total fabrication and misrepresentation of any discussions we’ve had…”
So it is entirely false.
But at exactly the same time, it is something FFAW representatives said taken out of context?
Then McCurdy went off on another tack:
“What you do when you don’t want to debate the issues is you start making personal attacks. About the only thing he didn’t accuse us of is child molesting. …He’s making it up. He’s smoking something. I don’t know what he’s doing. But what he should do is stick with the issues."
Sounds a wee bit fishy, if you will pardon the choice of words. you see, the other thing you do when you can’t deal with the comments is protest noisily that you have been abused and attacked.
You can hear both interviews on this week’s On Point Saturday at 7:30 PM.
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