For Newfoundland’s pseudo-intellectuals, the Toronto Globe and Mail is a kind of one-handed reading material. They use one hand to scroll down the Internet site looking at stuff. They use the other to stroke the keys of their computer until it spurts indignation all over the screen about over something
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Moral victory: saying yes to less #nlpoli
A couple of years after his war with one prime minister, Danny Williams was locked in another war with another federal first minister. Williams was demanding compensation for yet another supposed injustice. “What I said before and I said going in, this is about principles,” Williams told reporters in November
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The story of the 2004 war with Ottawa is the story of disconnects, mismatches, incongruities, of things that just didn’t add up. October 2004 is a good example. In the middle of the month, Loyola Sullivan, the provincial lead negotiator, went to Ottawa for a meeting with federal finance minister,
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: From agreement to disagreement #nlpoli
On June 4, 2004, Danny Williams delivered a keynote speech to delegates at the oil and gas conference organized annual by the association that represented offshore service and supply companies. “Newfoundlanders and Labradorians should not support any candidate or any party in the upcoming federal election” he said, “that does
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The 2004 war with Ottawa revisited #nlpoli
The 2004 “war” with Ottawa over a version of federal Equalization payments to Newfoundland and Labrador is an early episode in the provincial Conservative administration. The confrontation helped propel Premier Danny Williams to unprecedented heights of popularity. This, in turn, affected the rest of his tenure as Premier. It was
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