Maybe it was the headline on John Ivison’s opinion piece in the National Post that threw them off.
Spat over $400M N.L. fund could make federal government look bad to European trade partners
Provincial Conservatives, their patronage clients, and their paid staffers were all over Twitter all weekend tweeting touting the support in Ivison’s piece for their fight with the federal Conservatives over a federal cheque for $280 million.
Pay up feds, says Ivison, and end this dispute because it looks bad.
The problem for the Conservatives is that if you read the whole Ivison column, this is not a great endorse of the provincial Conservatives’ desperate political ploy. It offers sensible advice in that both sides need to get this dispute settled now, but Ivison gets there based on all sorts of half-baked ideas. That much of it shows the extent to which observers both at home and outside the province don’t really understand what’s going on here.
And if you follow the piece through to the end, you see just exactly how bad a position Paul Davis and his crowd really are.