Mixed messages from the NDP convention

Kathy Dunderdale's New Democratic Progressive Conservative Party is holding its convention/tweet-up in Gander this weekend.

The messaging coming out of the governing NDP's PC's second-last confab before its obliteration in the 2015 election debacle is, shall we say, mixed.

The NDP PC Party wants you to know they are spending all kinds of money in rural parts of the province.

They want you to know they are spending all kinds of money on aquaculture.

They are spending in government districts; they are spending in opposition ones.

They are doling out all kinds of "support envelope" to business.

Why, the NDP PC Premier herself, if she could, would make post-secondary education tuition-free.

But for heaven's sake, don't replace Kathy Dunderdale and her NDP PC government with any other party, because the other ones aren't fiscally responsible.

Autarky

Honest to... From an ITAR-DUN release this afternoon:

“Our number one priority for developing Muskrat Falls is to meet the electricity demands of our own province and to stabilize rates over the long term. On that basis alone, if we never sold one megawatt of power outside of this province, development of Muskrat Falls makes sense and will bring significant employment and income to the residents and businesses of Newfoundland and Labrador,” said Premier Dunderdale.

And who will be paying that income to the residents and business of Newfoundland and Labrador?

Why, the residents and business of Newfoundland and Labrador will be!

And they'll also be servicing Her Majesty's provincial government share of the debt incurred in this adventure in Albanian economics.

Everyone's a winner!