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MUSKRAT: DOES DANNY BLAME THE PUBLIC, TOO?
It
sure seemed that the words of Joseph de Maistre, the 18th century French Monarchist, moralist and philosopher, were being invoked once again — this time
by Nalcor CEO Stan Marshall at the Muskrat Falls Inquiry. “Every nation gets
the government it deserves,” asserted de Maistre, an advocate of social
hierarchy (a system based on class division) in the period immediately
following the French Revolution.
The
Consumer Advocate’s legal Counsel, Chris Peddigrew, was questioning Marshall&#;s
assertion a day earlier when he opined that the vast majority of people in the
province had supported the Muskrat Falls project and that, accordingly, we are
all to blame for what has occurred.
It
did seem for a moment that Peddigrew was engaging in overreach. Marshall, after
all, exhibits patience only for matters black and white. But Peddigrew
approached his prey tenderly, which is his skill: “[When you say that] we are
all to blame do you mean that as voters we are all to blame in the fact that we
elected a government that sanctioned this project in that was largely
built on the Muskrat Falls project?”
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Marshall in a tone less arrogant than certain: “We elect our governments, they