Seems that finance minister Jerome Kennedy isn’t the only fellow out there conducting the annual budget “consultation” farce this year.
According to the Southern Gazette, justice minister Darin King “acknowledged, as part of a small cabinet committee appointed by Premier Kathy Dunderdale to bring budget recommendations back to government, he was asked to split the pre-budget consultations with Mr. Kennedy.”
Apparently, the idea is to have a bunch of ministers fan out across the province so they can come back with ideas on how to get through a “couple of years” when oil production will be down and will be tough.
A couple of years.
Only two years?
That’s an interesting way to put it.
What’s more interesting is the way the Southern Gazette led into their story on the Marystown session:
It was largely more ‘doom and gloom’ from Justice Minister Darin King, as he conducted a provincial pre-budget . . . → Read More: The Sir Robert Bond Papers: “Doom and gloom” #nlpoli