Kathy Dunderdale cannot quit as leader of the provincial Conservative Party, says Fairity O’Brien in an interview with NTV.
He stresses it over and over. The caucus is solidly behind her.
He stresses it so much – right down to telling you that he wants to stress the message in this interview – that where you’d start to believe that what he is saying is the literal truth: Kathy wants to go but the caucus won’t let her.
For some reason, Kathy Dunderdale wants to know who is criticising her pet project.
Now she doesn’t come flat out and say that, but you can tell someone got her goat pretty good during the public utilities board hearings into Muskrat Falls.
You can tell because Kathy said so in the House of Assembly on May 29.
Premier Kathy Dunderdale should appoint municipal affairs minister Kevin “Fairity” O’Brien to handle intergovernmental affairs.
While Dunderdale is busily lobbing hand grenades at the federal government, Fairity is taking a very different attitude:
In a scrum on Wednesday, May 23, Premier Kathy Dunderdale said:
“What we are talking about, in fact, is a two hour window here.”
In the House of Assembly on Thursday, May 24, Premier Kathy Dunderdale said:
I have asked Minister MacKay for an explanation of the gap that occurred on January 30 in the search when there was a five-hour period that they were not engaged in the search. The answers are not satisfactory; the protocols need to be changed.
There is no five-hour period in the Burton Winters search that matches whatever Kathy Dunderdale is talking about in that exchange in the House of Assembly. In fact, it’s pretty hard for anyone with even a sketchy knowledge of the events in Makkovik in late January and early February to figure out what Kathy Dunderdale is getting on with.
Municipal affairs minister Kevin “Fairity” O’Brien stood in the House of Assembly on Wednesday “to highlight the continued progress in implementing the Provincial Waste Management Strategy in our province.”
Wonderful stuff it could have been.
The only problem is Fairity really didn’t provide an update.
He thought about it in 2000 but never launched a campaign after Danny decided to go for it.
He might be a long-shot, but the guy who has trouble with geography at least knows what he’s fighting for: fairity.
Kevin O’Brien: a potential Conservative leadership candidate.
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