Almost a year after reaching an understanding with the federal government on a joint federal-provincial fisheries fund related to the European trade talks, the provincial government tried to alter the deal radically.
Documents released by the provincial government in 2013 and 2014 show that the federal and provincial governments agreed in June 2013 to fund a cost-shared (70% federal and 30% provincial) “transition program” of up to $400 million that would address “industry development and renewal as well as worker displacement.”
But in May 2014, provincial fisheries minister Keith Hutchings changed the provincial demands.