It's like Danny Williams never left the legal and monopoly cable business.
First, it was a fibre deal that even he doesn't understand.
Next it will be cabinet ministers announcing "compensation" wrestled from some corporate wrongdoer.
Wait, a minute.
What's this?
Kathy Dunderdale and Joan Burke will be in Placentia on Thursday (psst, Thursday is the 30th, not the 29th) "to announce compensation for the area from Voisey’s Bay Nickel Company for the loss of the commercial processing facility at Argentia, as well as school infrastructure plans for the Placentia area".
Compensation from VBNC for the "loss" of a commercial processor?
Hmmm.
I don't see anything from VBNC saying they'd pay compensation. Their contractual obligations are merely to build a smelter/refinery in the province and they are doing that. At Long Harbour. Argentia and Placentia couldn't lose what they never actually had locked up.
So is this just a poorly written news release or did Danny and his team of crackies wrestle some kind of cash from VBNC? One news outlet is reporting it already as VBNC shelling out. If the cash was from VBNC, then the company should be getting the credit or at least sharing it.
Maybe it's just the tail end of a polling period and someone is getting desperate to goose the numbers.