Norm Sterling shines bright

There must have been at least one course in law school that Norm Sterling, the mighty 30 year Ontario MPP for Carleton-Mississippi Mills, took that no one else was offered. He seems to be an expert in detection of underground metal fatigue.

The story is that a culvert under the 417 highway just east of Ottawa collapsed this week. It caused a bit of a delay for traffic but no harm was done. According to the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) the 30 year old culvert was scheduled for replacement and that there was no way to predict when it could fail.

But that was not good enough for Normie. "I suspect that it could have been predictable", claims he.

If he is right then the MTO spokesperson, Brandy Duhaime, is lying to us. She commented that, ".. there are some things that are just unpredicted events."

So let me weight this for you. An MPP, who trained as a lawyer, versus the spokesperson for MTO. I think I will go with MTO.

It is interesting, to say the least, that the 30 year old pipe is being retired as beyond its usefulness; but Sterling, who has sucked off the public teat as an MPP for the same 30 years, carries on being useless.