Okay, Danny.
You're right.
It was politically naive to have pledged you wouldn't let the Abitibi mill at Stephenville close.
That still doesn't explain your similar pledge to the people of Harbour Breton.
Or the people of Goose Bay.
For that matter, it doesn't explain your threats to expropriate property.
Since you haven't expropriated the property - in fact you have subsidized Abitibi's other operations instead - it's hard to see how "myself and my government have done everything we can to try and save it, including stepping up significantly in order to save that mill, and I can't do any more than that...".
There's something insincere in Danny's mea culpa.
