Up Chuck

From the Ceeb today:

"I think we're in an unprecedented time of gloom," Chuck Furey said Friday.

"There's a real, deep cynicism about the whole political system, and it's come about in the last year or so."

[...]

"It just seems to be one thing after another after another, after another, after another, and that piles on top of people," he told CBC News. "I'm sure it makes them cynical."

That's from Chuck Furey.

The Chief Electoral Officer, Chuck Furey.

Former cabinet minister, Chuck Furey.

The impartial Chief Electoral Officer. Chuck Furey.

Everything he says here is true.

But none of it should be said by Chuck Furey, Chief Electoral Officer Chuck Furey:

5. It is the duty of the Chief Electoral Officer

(a) to exercise general direction and supervision over the administrative conduct of elections and to enforce on the part of election officers fairness, impartiality and compliance with this Act;

So while the PCs turn themselves into a Smallwood-style Personality Cult, the provincial government is turning the province into a banana republic without the climate advantages.