FFS. Stop digging!
They don't even know they're in a hole
In her spectacular meltdown last week on VOCM and CBC Townie Morning, Victim Minister of Everything Lela Evans threw so many of her political and bureaucratic colleagues under the bus - including Premier Tony Wakeham and his entire office - that the Pea Seas will have to switch to a helicopter for their next campaign.
She whined about everything from it taking so long to get on the air to a handful of cranks on social media to Tony Wakeham for sticking her out in front of an issue with the Innu that rightfully belongs to Andrea Barbour. For anyone confused, Evans was actually the last caller to Friday’s Open Line but in the audio recording they stuck her meltdown up front because it is just a wild brushfire in the otherwise parched landscape of the province’s once-lush-and-thriving politics.
But she started her victim tale right from the first words.
That’s Lela all over.
She hit Barbour at the one minute 40 mark noting that while she’s minister of Ecerything else, she’s not the minister responsible for the provincial archeology office and The Rooms. There went Barbour under the Fleetline. everything is so bad, Evans couldn’t apparently go home to Labrador, things are so hostile. She didn’t really say much about that so take it with a grain of salt, along with her bald-faced lie that she has no comms people. Facts are not important when a story has to become all about The Ego. Tony and his people went under the bus implicitly as Evans complained about having to deal with an issue that isn’t hers… even though it is.
For one thing, Evans is the minister responsible for relations with Indigenous people even if she thinks the job is all about helping the Innu and siding with them on everything. For another, Cabinet government is collective government, even if people writing for Canada’s leading political rag The Hill Times write headlines about the supposed return of Cabinet government to Ottawa if only to make it clear they know nothing about Canadian politics.
