Nowhere in the official news release is there any mention that Danny Williams is back in Newfoundland and Labrador.
CBC didn’t report that he was back in the province either, merely that he was back at work.
Ditto the Telegram and Voice Of the Cabinet Minister.
And if you listen all the way to the end of an interview with health minister Jerome Kennedy from the Morning Show on Monday you can get pretty much the same idea. Kennedy acknowledges that Williams has been recovering and “will be back to work shortly.” He quickly corrects himself to say Williams has already returned to work.
In fact, given that Monday was a provincial government holiday, a news release saying that Williams is back at work looks highly suspicious. The timing of the release suggests it was triggered by Kennedy’s comments on the Morning Show.
But that doesn’t mean he is actually in the province.
Williams has been working – apparently – throughout most of his recuperation period. It’s highly unlikely that a man described by his own deputy as a workaholic could actually do anything but try and run the province from his sick bed in Florida.
There’s no word on when Williams will actually return to the province.
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Great Minds Update: As WJM notes, Hisself has been doing official work things before the news release announcing he is on the job once more. That pretty much clinches the conclusion that the “news” today was more a reaction to Jerome!’s comment than any actual change in Hisself’s health status.
What-no-facebook-status? Update: Turns out Hisself is actually back and the release was cover for his campaign foray into Topsail district. Still, he could just have easily issued the release in February when he went to Vancouver – what was that, a lark? - and said he’d be working from the Southern premier’s office in Sarasota until the snow final disappeared.