Sheridan gets bright idea after 17 months on the job
By Stephen Pate
The former car-loans officer from Kensington, Wes Sheridan, has been lost in space working next to Paul Jelly in Treasury. Jelly, the good Tory. has been spinning Wes around like a frosh during hazing since July 2007.
Wes is not going to build manors with private money, so says Wayne Thibodeau in the Journal Pioneer.
Good thinkin’ Wes – your first sign of human intelligence at the level required for your job.
The sad thing is Wes didn’t what Jelly was up to. He thought he’s been on the job. Remember Wessie’s first budget. That was the one Jelly made up for “I-love-gambling” Mitch Murphy another dim financial bulb in the lamp. Imagine a gambling addict for a treasurer.
Baby Ghiz was no help. He was over scheming with Richard Brown, Chris LeClair and Ax MacAulay to pull off Immigrant Scam, PEI’s biggest fraud in history.
Remember Mitch told the Conflict of Interest Commissioner he was a director “so my dad can get EI but I’m not a director at all.” We just figured out why CBC didn’t want to report the EI fraud angle on that story even when we handed it to them.
The CBC assignment editor said it was too complicated for CBC to understand. Yeah besides John Jeffery was on the take with the Tories and it was good news season for the aging Binns boys. Can you say Banana Republic?
Anyways back to our current Treasurer who’s spending us into a hole in the ground.
Bravo Wes, when you get back from your UPEI Finance 101 course, we’ll explain the rest to you.
P3 won’t build new manors
WAYNE THIBODEAU
Transcontinental Media
CHARLOTTETOWN — The P.E.I. government is not closing the door on public-private partnerships but it says it will build the Island’s five new manors with public dollars.
The provincial government had closely considered a public-private partnership as a way of speeding up the delivery of new manors in the province.
“The use of alternative financing such as P3 needs to be examined on a case-by-case basis to determine what is in the taxpayers’ best interests,” said Provincial Treasurer Wes Sheridan.
Summerset Manor in Summerside and Prince Edward Home in Charlottetown will be replaced first at a cost of $36 million.
Riverview, Colville and Maplewood manors will also be replaced within the next five years.
Sheridan says there has been much public discussion and debate about whether manor replacement should be pursued through normal, traditional means, or through public private partnerships or P3s.
“I can report that we have examined the merits of this matter with respect to manor replacement and have concluded that our new manors will be government-built, government-owned, and government-run.”
That’s good news for Bill McKinnon, health-care co-ordinator for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Prince Edward Island.
Health-care unions across the Island launched an aggressive campaign, including TV commercials, to discourage the provincial government from pursuing the P3 proposal.
“That is not only satisfying that they’ve seen the merits of sticking with government-built, government-owned, government-operated, but it’s the right decision for the taxpayers of Prince Edward Island,” said McKinnon.
