Fiscal prudence lecture too hard to swallow
Letter to editor from Winston Magee
Cape Breton Post
Thursday, July 7, 2003
Reading the story about Parker
Donham concerning the Sydney tar
ponds cleanup in your paper on
June 27 (Government Will Be Fiscally
Responsible When Cleaning Toxic Sludge: Donham),I could see it
was obviously designed to take the
heat off from his embarassment
over the "personal letter" he wrotes to MP Mark Eyking.
However he describes the letter,
it shows us how he is thinking when
it comes to cleaning up the tar
ponds sludge.
He has the audacity to talk about
the government being fiscally
responsible. Who does he think he's
fooling when daily we see governments
wasting billions, not millions,
on totally ridiculous projects?
But I guess that as far as Mr. Donham
is concerned money is being wasted
only when it is spent on
something that concerns everyone's
health.
The federal human resources
fiasco with Jane Stewart and the
harassing gun registry must be the
sort of thing he means by governments
being fiscally responsible.
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