So much for this feud between Dan Williams and Steve Harper. When there's a provincial election election campaign underway and a federal one coming, the Connies and their provincial cousins can find all sorts of ways to help each other out.
1. Both Canada's New Government (CNG) and Newfoundland and Labrador's Dan Government (NLDG) invest $250,000 to help hike interest in an international trail along the Appalachians.
Get it? Hike? Trail? The word "hike" is even italicised in the news release head in case you didn't get the creative writing.
2. CNG and NLDG drop about $1.2 million between them into an aquaculture project on the South coast.
3. CNG and NLDG spend $3.0 million on an improved water supply for Harbour Breton.
4. Then CNG and NLDG announced opening of a heritage site in Harbour Breton completed with more than $3.5 million in federal and provincial cash.
5. Even the Premier's parliamentary assistant will be able to get in on the electioneering. The last SOL release for Thursday was an announcement of a photo op involving federal fish minister Loyola Hearn and the Premier's Open Line crackie, Paul Oram.
Oram and Hearn can be photographed at a municipal water and sewer project in Oram's district, on Friday at 1:30 PM.
In an election campaign, even the crap is apparently so potentially vote-worthy that a cabinet and a wannabe cabinet minister will pose for happy snaps with it.
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