The feds will respond to Danny Williams, who ran ads of his own last week accusing them of breaking a promise to his province with the recent federal budget.
The ads will begin running Tuesday, according to an internal government memo.
The memo includes talking points for Tory MPs when speaking about the federal-provincial imbroglio, including: Ottawa never broke its promise, Newfoundland and Labrador gets more money under the budget, and Danny Williams just wants a special deal which would be unfair to other provinces.
The budget has angered Newfoundland and Nova Scotia because it says they can only access a newer, more generous equalization program if they give up the Atlantic Accord.
That accord, signed with the previous Liberal government, excluded offshore oil revenues from equalization calculations.
Update: The Canadian Press version here.
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2 comments:
putting aside any discussion of what the details of what feds might or might not be doing, I'd probably end up taking issue with one thing in this blog post - the title.
I don't equate the misrepresentations on the issue of revenue and Equalization that have come from Danny Williams with "NL."
I'd suspect that if the current federal administration challenges anything, it'll be Danny Williams's incorrect take on what has happened re CPC promises on Equalization and offshroe revenue etc .
If more Newfoundlanders and Labradorians would dig down and take a closer look at even the sources the premier has been using in his news releases, as well as the budget documents, they'd see that the premier is no longer representing their interests. His entire stream of communications on this matter, while clearly supportive of his objective of getting 7 federal Liberal MPs for NL, if not particularly consistent with any overal pro-NL position I know of . . .
The post is word-for-word the Broadcast news filing.
The headline is a modified version of theirs. I take your point.
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