Former premier Tom Rideout has an accent typical of the northeast coast of Newfoundland. in his days as a cabinet minister after 2003, Rideout often used the word “northern”. It came out in his pronunciation as “no-durn” or “know-durn”.
Tom’s legacy leaves on, even inadvertently. Four years or so after Rideout got fed up and left provincial politics, Labrador affairs minister Nick McGrath confirmed recently that the Northern Strategic Plan the provincial Conservatives talk about so much doesn’t exist.
There’s no durn plan.
