Premier Dwight Ball stood up before a hand-picked crowd at The Rooms on Tuesday and told them they were there to help develop a strategy for the future of our province. They would look over some ideas the government crowd had worked up, sit around tables talking with "facilitators" as part of this gigantic consultation, and then the government crowd would figure out what the final strategy should look like.
In his speech, Ball said that we were in the current financial mess because the crowd running the government before now had followed a strategy of strategies. They'd have a strategy for ever problem. One year they came out with 10. All developed according to the same basic formula: issue - idea - consultation - cogitation - strategy.
The Liberals would do things differently, Ball said. How they would be different he could not say. Maybe it was that instead of doing a health strategy and a n innovation strategy and a fisheries strategy, Ball and his crowd were going to have One Big Strategy.
But somehow, the same was different to Ball's way of thinking and all would be wonderful as a result.