Professor Emeritus at Memorial University, Steve Tomblin
Professor emeritus and former advisor to the previous Liberal government Steve Tomblin is raising serious questions about some of the decisions made in the Tony Wakeham government’s first 100 days in office.
Tomblin, a long-time political scientist, says government’s decision to terminate an MOU that would have seen a feasibility assessment done on Parks Canada’s proposed marine conservation area off the south coast, and its handling of the Churchill Falls MOU raise many questions.
The legislature is set to open March 2nd, but until then says Tomblin, the party has plenty of time to carve a path and set its priorities, without the opposition that comes from the back and forth in the House of Assembly.
There might be an advantage in that says Tomblin. He says “the message for the most part, has been highly populist…’we’re going to fight for Newfoundland and Labrador,’ as opposed to focusing on the things the current prime minister is talking about; ‘how can we work across systems, how can we be less zero sum? How can we be more positive sum?’ And for the most-part, we haven’t seen that, we haven’t seen that with this government.”