Thursday, November 5, 2009

Nothing to Fear?

The Liberal government of Shawn Graham has developed an interesting line of attack against the opposition to their power deal. They just accuse their opponents of "fear mongering".


That is an interesting choice of words because it implies that the Liberal believe people have reason to be afraid of this deal. And that's probably true, but not for the reasons that the Liberals themselves are afraid.


New Brunswickers are most afraid because of their experience with the Graham Liberals. When they surprised people with ridiculous changes to the university system - the people had to march in the streets to get their attention. When they surprised people with changes to the French Immersion program, people had to take their own government to court to get them to listen. And the lawsuit against the changes to the health care regions is still making its way through the legal system.


With this latest brain wave, which the Premier says he was directly responsible for the idea, what is the lesson they learned from past experience? Have they learned how to do a better job of consulting with New Brunswickers?


No, rather they have learned that to get their crazy schemes past a knowing public they have to put on a huge and costly public relations campaign, not reveal too many details, and most importantly they need to threaten people that if they don't agree to an arbitrary deadline then their power bills will be increased.


Now that's fear mongering.

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