Abel LeBlanc - Represent your constituants, not yourself
Able LeBlanc made some very strange comments after Council’s decision in favour of the sale the former Lantic Sugar site to Irving Oil.
Able said that the city’s industrial unions will reclaim power and influence they lost to government and “big business-” and it could even come to blows.
“We will take it back, and it’s got to come from the grassroots and real leadership,” said LeBlanc. “I would only recommend that they do it peacefully. Somewhere down the line it will come to protest and violence.”
That’s right, a local MLA is threatening us with violence if we don’t do what him and the union’s say.
My response to Able is simply this - Stop the threats, you were elected to represent the citizens - do it already!
As an MLA, you should know what it means to represent your constituants - not yourself. You have consistantly put your own personal views before the constituants, and this time has gone too far. Get with the times. You have had your chance to speak, more then enough on this topic, and now it is time to stop the threats. You need to start working with the community, because we want to keep moving forward.
I’m pretty sure of one thing now…Abel is about to be pushed to the backbenches of the Liberal Party. In what he said to the T-J today, he’s put his foot deep down his throat, and it wouldn’t surprise me to see him get turfed from caucus, and maybe out of the legislature altogether. And it’s all his fault. His alone.
The irony is overwhelming here. Mr. Leblanc, and the ILA, seem to ignore that Irving companies, and spin-offs, probably contributed greatly to port revenue (and their jobs) over the years. I’m sure it’s no coincidence that the TJ (it goes without saying, an Irving Company) is more than willing to help Abel dig his own political grave by plastering his picture and highly irresponsible remarks on the front page of their paper…