Maybe Kathy Dunderdale can resurrect Danny Williams big dream of a tunnel connecting Labrador to the island. Remember the Stunnel?
Surely you remember Danny Williams stopping by the side of the highway during the 2001 by-election or the 2003 election – anyone recall which? – and marvelling that he could see the mainland or some such.
Anyway, the whole goofball idea priced out at a few billion dollars and Williams quickly dropped it as unrealistic.
But then people used to say that increasing the provincial public debt by 50% was unrealistic too, until Danny and his successor committed to doing it.
Go big or go home, Kathy!.
So if Danny was planning to rack up the debt by just 50%, go the rest of the way.
And follow the example set by the Danes.
They are planning to build an 18 kilometre tunnel underwater to connect Denmark and Germany.
The estimated cost is only US$5.9 billion.
Now sure the traffic between Sweden and Norway to Germany and the rest of the continent through Demark makes this much more commercially viable than a link between Blanc Sablon and St. Barbe. But since when did that ever stop a politician from pissing public money down a hole.
Every great Premier in the province’s history – at least as popularly assessed - has had at least one gigantic financial mess to his credit.
This could be Kathy’s.
Just saying.
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