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Serveral other on my flist have reported that frankiew has resigned as Ambassador to the US, clearly gearing up for the Liberal Leadership capmpaign. So, who wants to make me a 'Hustler' icon? ^-^
As to why he is called that... there is first the Infamouns This Hour Has 22 Minutes clips, with it's pool table shots, fiunky disco music, and so on... but this might explain it better.
In a chapter on the Liberal economic strategy, Lee introduces readers to Frank McKenna, 'The [Job] Hustler.' Inspired by Massachusetts' economic renaissance in the 1980s, McKenna made the emerging information technology sector the cornerstone of his government's growth strategy. Offering access to the provincial telephone utility's recently completed fibre optic network (the first in Canada) and generous economic incentives, McKenna's government, in the early 1990s, embarked on a high-profile and controversial campaign to lure corporations to New Brunswick. McKenna promoted New Brunswick to business audiences throughout the country, and was featured prominently in recruiting advertisements. His advisors cleverly convinced business publications to feature McKenna, the self-made and hardworking premier, as the face of [End Page 391] the 'new' New Brunswick. The results were mixed; McKenna attracted approximately six thousand call centre jobs to the province, but these successes were offset by federal cutbacks to the public sector in the mid-1990s. While Lee effectively outlines McKenna's job strategy, he largely ignores critics who questioned the quality and cost (in financial guarantees) of those jobs.
-James Kenny, The Canadian Historical Review 86.2 (2005) 390-392
ETA: I e-mailed This Hour has 22 min to see if they still have the clip, and if they could maybe put it on their website (which has pretty good video archives, but not back that far). I'll let you know if I hear anything ;)
As to why he is called that... there is first the Infamouns This Hour Has 22 Minutes clips, with it's pool table shots, fiunky disco music, and so on... but this might explain it better.
In a chapter on the Liberal economic strategy, Lee introduces readers to Frank McKenna, 'The [Job] Hustler.' Inspired by Massachusetts' economic renaissance in the 1980s, McKenna made the emerging information technology sector the cornerstone of his government's growth strategy. Offering access to the provincial telephone utility's recently completed fibre optic network (the first in Canada) and generous economic incentives, McKenna's government, in the early 1990s, embarked on a high-profile and controversial campaign to lure corporations to New Brunswick. McKenna promoted New Brunswick to business audiences throughout the country, and was featured prominently in recruiting advertisements. His advisors cleverly convinced business publications to feature McKenna, the self-made and hardworking premier, as the face of [End Page 391] the 'new' New Brunswick. The results were mixed; McKenna attracted approximately six thousand call centre jobs to the province, but these successes were offset by federal cutbacks to the public sector in the mid-1990s. While Lee effectively outlines McKenna's job strategy, he largely ignores critics who questioned the quality and cost (in financial guarantees) of those jobs.
-James Kenny, The Canadian Historical Review 86.2 (2005) 390-392
ETA: I e-mailed This Hour has 22 min to see if they still have the clip, and if they could maybe put it on their website (which has pretty good video archives, but not back that far). I'll let you know if I hear anything ;)
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Keep in mind for those you who don't live in NB that the NB unemployment rate is around 10.5% and I think is was even higher before McKenna started bringing in jobs. The jobs he brought in were crappy ones, but the ones we were losing weren't that great either. (Lots of mill jobs where you work around chemicals all day or jobs working with the mining industry.)