Psychic!

Quick call the X-Files because a real live psychic has been found in New Brunswick!

This week Donald Arseneault, the Minister of Post-Secondary Education, announced that if New Brunswick didn't get more money from Ottawa they would have to scrap the plans to build a new Community College in Fredericton.

The scary part is that the promise to build NBCC-Fredericton was made in the Liberal platform 3 years ago - but the federal program they are counting on to pay for it didn't even exist at that time! So how did he know three years ago what Stephen Harper would do in 2009? Amazing!

In order to make the promise in 2006 and for it to be dependent upon a one-time federal stimulus package - the Graham Liberals would have had to know that the economy was going to bust world-wide in 2008 and that the Government in Ottawa would pass a special one-time stimulus budget in January of 2009. Furthermore, Don "The Swami" Arseneault would have had to predict that out of the extra $40 billion the feds are dropping this year, $2 billion would go into universities and colleges. Astounding!

Unfortunately, like Nostradamus, the Minister's prediction was not accurate enough. When he had his vision 3 years ago he neglected to calculate the total amount of funding that NB would be eligible for, so now they are short of the money for Fredericton because they spent the initial funding on other projects. Making priorities is hard!

Still, at least now we here at NB Conservative know who to ask about our picks for next year's hockey pool.