Manitoba has the electricity Ontario needs.
Manitoba will develop new supplies of electricity to feed demand both in Manitoba and in Ontario.
Ontario gets the power.
Manitoba gets Ontario's cash.
Everybody is happy.
Everybody, that is, except a few people who see plots and schemes in everything designed to rob Newfoundlanders and Labradorians of their precious bodily fluids.
The concern in this province should be that the Lower Churchill will not be built simply because everyone else will get power to market before we do. No one should worry about some secret plans on the mainland to rob us blind; that's just another fantasy devoid of any basis in fact.
In the meantime, some people will continue to advocate that Newfoundland and Labrador follow the successful example of Enver Hoxha's Albania: no export of anything to anyone for any reason. Everything was developed, if it was developed at all, on a go-it-alone basis.
The approach was so successful the country was propped up by hand-outs from outsiders.
Enjoy the story from the weekend Winnipeg Free Press.