Paul Davis fired Judy Manning from cabinet on Wednesday.
He didn’t meet with her in person.
Davis called her on the phone.
Short of sending her an e-mail or a text message, Davis couldn’t have shown less class, tact, or respect for the job he holds and for Manning herself than in the miserable way Davis he fired her.
To make matters worse, Davis couldn’t even come up with a good reason for dumping Manning. Take a look at three minutes from the post-shuffle scrum that CBC posted to its website.
David Cochrane asked a simple question. Davis wandered all over the place and never gave a plain answer. Even at the end of Davis’ answer to the second question, we aren’t really any further ahead in understand why Davis threw Manning under the bus and then backed over the body a few times for good measure