There’s a story about Danny Williams before he became the Old Man. It was either in 2001 during the by-elections on the Great Northern Peninsula or later during the 2003 general election.
As the convoy of Winnebago and media drives down the highway, Williams suddenly pulls over and points across to Labrador. Then he says something to the effect that there is no reason why we couldn’t build a tunnel across to the mainland.
Some ideas never die, no matter how implausible they might be or no matter how many sensible arguments there are not to do them.
One of them is the idea of building a tunnel from Newfoundland to Labrador. Technically, it’s possible. But, as SRBP pointed out in 2005, a pretty simple look at the economics of the project make it as loopy an idea as Muskrat Falls.
That’s why people call it the Stunnel: a stunned tunnel.
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