From ctv.ca, based on Premier Danny Williams appearance on CTV's Question Period and reports from local affiliate NTV.
Williams told a vocm.com radio call-in show this morning that criticism of his efforts across the country are coming from or are influenced by the "communications spin" coming from the Prime Minister's Office.
Williams made the same claim during the 2004/05 flag flap. Polling conducted for Williams office showed that 60% of those surveyed were "not supportive at all" of Williams' decision to remove Canadian flags from any provincial government buildings in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Meanwhile, Williams' campaign to defeat Stephen Harper at the polls is causing rifts not only between the provincial Progressive Conservative Party and its federal cousin, but reportedly within the provincial party as well. Williams' branded federal Conservatives, saying anyone who supports the federal government has betrayed his or her province. In doing so, Williams also labelled three federal Conservative members of parliament, all of whom are very popular with local voters.
Update
Danny Williams saidon vocm.com's Open Line with Randy Simms:
But what's happening is you're being influenced by the PMO spin. I mean, you know, the Prime Minister's Office has a huge, huge communications network and, so, you know, this is where the letters to the Globe and Mail are coming from and all of that and they'll, they'll fight that.
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6 comments:
Seriously. Is Williams mental or what. I can't believe this guy.
This is not Meech Lake and he is not Clyde Wells. And there is not grand conspiracy coming from the PMO.
All he is doing is making himself look like a complete fool.
To "happy to be here":
I think the real folly here was Danny trying to essentially make membership/involvement in the PC Party of NL contingent on not being supportive of the CPC on any issues at all . . . and also indirectly stating his support for the return of 7 federal Liberals from NL . . .
On top of there being no policy document, platform, or speech that would support Williams' claims about what was specifically promised, on this very issue of revenue and equalization reform, the federal Tories had a plan that was, by provincial standards, better for NL . . .
The PC Party of NL should not be a personality cult. It's bigger than Danny Williams or his whims, or at least it should be.
Also -- re Meech -- fail to see how there was any mass conspiracy back then either . . .
Be careful what you wish for. Danny Williams is a publicity hound, who is full of hot air. It was not too long ago that he was saying the same thing about former Liberal Prime Minister, Paul Martin.
Wasn't it the Federal Liberal party that was in power when Danny Williams ordered the removal of all Canadian flags from all provincial government buildings?
Conspiracies abound, at times with Williams.
During the flag flap he imagined a conspiracy when he needed to defend what was clearly a grossly inappropriate and obviously extremely unpopular decision across the country.
There have been other lesser conspiracies,but they seem to pop up whenever it is convenient for the Premier, not when there is a sign of any one in cahoots with anyone else.
Danny Williams has actually shown himself to have a double standard in his focus and vitriol. He took less from the previous federal Liberal government than his province ultimately gets from a Conservative one, and but for the flag flap (which was not aimed at the federal Liberal Party in particular), he has been far more acidic (and started spitting well in advance of any budget) with the federal Conservatives.
Besides being an inconsistent position, his position is simply bad by any objective measure of what each party's policy, for either party's fault, has offered for NL.
He took less from the previous federal Liberal government than his province ultimately gets from a Conservative one
If the province isn't adversely effected by the Tory equalization plan, and if, as according to the budget docs, the difference between the existing ("less from the previous Liberal government") regime and the optional, for NL, new one, is 0, how is it that "he took less"?
This must be yet another example of the New(foundland) math, I guess.
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