Newfoundland Premier Dwight Ball either cut, slashed or sliced 287 jobs from the civil service last week, depending on which report you read. Whatever the terminology, the reduction is in direct contravention to a promise Ball made during the 2015 election campaign to resist job cuts. When the election finally took place the outcome was pre-ordained: the Conservatives were reduced to seven seats in the 40-seat legislature. Under the revised Liberal formula, a bigger debt doesn’t matter, as long as the economy grows enough to accommodate it. His latest reductions represent 17 per cent of management-level positions, worth $20-25 million a yearBall seems resistant to such logic.

Source: National Post February 27, 2017 17:03 UTC