…someone you’ve likely never heard of ironically – Premier Shawn Graham of New Brunswick!

The Communist Broadcasting Corporation‘s newsmaker of the year was the premier of New Brunswick, Canada for selling off NB Power (the government-owned hydro company) to Hydro-Québec (a government-owned hydro company in another province). Firstly, I didn’t know you could become newsmaker for doing one stupid thing…I thought you had to do at least two. Secondly, okay I suppose there really isn’t a second point.

He sold it for $4.8 billion that went directly back to the people in the form of tax-cuts governmental “essential” services, but it still doesn’t really smell like privatization. After all, it’s still a monopoly, only now it’s a monopoly owned by a foreign government. Good job Mr. Newsmaker.