There is a way to look at the past. Don’t hide from it. It will not catch you–if you don’t repeat it
From Rural Delivery Magazine, March 2002 continued: (Part 1, Part 2)
The American partners had purchased nearly 200 acres of property west of the Tobeatic Wilderness protected area for their newest venture called Trout Point Lodge. The main lodge, a 3-story log cabin with 10 guest rooms, is assessed at $615,000. Leary told Rural Delivery that he and his partners spent more than $2 million on the venture which includes a mezzanine library, dining room, and two bars. The company planned to market directly to Americans seeking to combine a vacation with culinary instruction.
The July meeting seemed to be an opportunity for La Ferme d’ Acadie to regain ACOA’s confidence. It might have worked. But an unsigned and undated memo prepared after the meeting points out that Leary failed to mention a fairly significant detail…….
The incompetence at ACOA is stunning. Locally in Jefferson Parish you commonly see elected officials claim ignorance or incompetence as a reason the taxpayers are fleeced via scams like the Jefferson Parish canal bottoms scandal or the ongoing saga of the Performing Arts Center. I can’t judge whether the bungling in Nova Scotia is willful as I and many others such as our own Gambitman suggest is the case in the Performing Arts Center debacle but the end result for the taxpayers is the same either way. In the case of Leary and ACOA the detail he failed to mention was the cheese plant was in the process of being sold as we continue: Continue reading “La ferme pue pire que la route putes un vagin: “The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion” Part 3 Fin.”