Skimble-scabble

is the order of the day vis a vis who is running in the Torngat district.

As mentioned before, the NDP did have a candidate last week, his name was on a pole I took. We have a Labrador Party that did have a candidate too, but his name nor party was included in any pole.

Now this morning we hear that there is now no NDP candidate on the official candidates list that was just released, but we do have a Labrador Party candidate.

Rumor has it that the LP guy, Jimmy Tuttauk is on/will be on the coast this week, let’s hope so, be a refreshing change from the two main parties usual mumbo jumbo on a go forward basis.

Some interesting alliances that baffle some what are coming out.

The PC candidate was lamenting on CBC radio this morning that she “did not think it fair that the previous MHA Wally Andersen was campaigning with the Liberal candidate. Wally is a popular guy on the coast, and I think if he had known I was going to put my name forward for the PC’s before committing to the Liberals then he may have supported me”. Eh?
But it does reveal how Wally did his job in the past, and who may have benefited from that ‘constituency man style’, a style that I some times had a problem with. Wally may have been OK helping individuals with their issues, but on the big picture issues he was mostly a failure, not that any one else may have done better considering the small population base. But I do remember some instances where Wally put the Party Line before the big picture of the riding, something that is not being mentioned in the Facebook ode to Wally.

A little bit of reality: Garfield Warren was the best [by miles] MHA the Torngat Mountains district had. I did not agree with him crossing the floor to the PC party, but once he did this district was served by Garfield the way they should be. Garfield just did not look after individual needs; he had the big picture in mind. Update; made a big boo boo, changed to correct name of Warren, I was thinking Warren when writing but still put wrong name.