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BOB WAKEHAM: Are we our own worst enemies with the Churchill Falls deal?

As the Quebec government changes and puts Churchill Falls in jeopardy - again - NL has to take a hard look on how it's been handled

As if the numerous efforts to scrap and re-negotiate the most atrocious, inequitable, one-sided deal in this province’s history hadn’t gotten messy and confusing enough, now we have the Parti Québécois entering the already blurred picture with its aggressive Quebec-first philosophy that you just know will further muddy the waters of the Churchill River and its massive hydro power.

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Predictably, Premier Tony Wakeham has been doing his Pollyanna routine in interviews and in a government-funded piece of video puffery to try and convince all of his understandably pessimistic constituents that the new separatist premier in Quebec, Paul St. Pierre Plamondon, will dance a jig of acceptance for the latest configuration of the original Memorandum of Understanding because it’s just so damn enticing for both provinces.

Well, Tony the Tiger had better hold off before shoveling another spoonful of Churchill Falls Frosted Flakes down his gob and shouting in near ecstasy, “THEY’RE GR-R-REAT!”

Because you can take it to the bank that Premier St. Pierre will make sure he places his own indelible mark on the agreement signed several weeks back between his predecessor Christine Frechette (now relegated to asterisk status in Quebec history) and Wakeham, with Prime Minister Mark Carney contributing bags full of........

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