Premier Kathy Dunderdale didn’t bring up crude oil prices at a scrum after her speech to the offshore industry association. Reporters did. [Link: CBC story and scrum video]
No harm. No foul. That’s the way these things work.
She accepted the way the reporters framed questions and went into her usual rant about fiscal responsibility and saying “no” and all that. She repeated the old Tory lie - and it is a lie - about the provincial government being bankrupt in 2003.
Not surprisingly, some media picked up on Dunderdale’s line about
"We are watching very carefully, and our deficit may end up at the end of the year larger than we forecasted .… We are keeping a very tight grip on the purse strings at the moment in terms of sanctioning spending that we announced in the budget,…”
No one should panic just yet.