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4/ Adding to this... McNeil has a highly trained, and highly paid staff: Chief of Staff Laurie Graham is pad $164K annually; Deputy Minister Laura Lee Langley ($137K); Marilla Stephenson ($116K); Policy Advisor Jackie Foster ($95K); Cabinet Advisor Marah Haywood ($142K)
5/ Manager of the Executive Council Cherryl Tucker ($179K); Liberal Secretary Exie Sciocchetti ($78K); and a bunch of others I can't quickly identify....
6/ But we're being asked to believe that all these people who are highly paid precisely because they are supposedly so talented... that none of them could foresee our present situation and plan for it.
7/ Meanwhile, the intelligentsia at the east end of the bar have been talking about this very scenario for months.
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