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BOB WAKEHAM: Enough said on the Churchill Falls MOU - we're all stuck waiting in the cold June weather now

We're all stuck waiting to see what new, better deal can be negotiated with Quebec, so let's talk about something else

If I happened to be a pimply-faced, precocious MUN student working on my master’s degree in political science, and having exhausted all original thought on my thesis on the Churchill Falls Memorandum of Understanding, I believe I’d throw myself at the feet of my prof and seek mercy.

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But not without a promise to supply an addendum to my thought-provoking document if, and when, the Newfoundland and Quebec negotiators that are trying to rejig the original MOU find enough common ground to prevent this monumentally significant contract from going belly up.

I could just go off and have a toke and a beer and hope for a decent grade from my sympathetic prof, or deliberately bump into that particular teacher at Ben’s, wait until he or she or they were half in the bag, and take advantage of their inebriated state to once again make my case.

So I was thinking this week that in ways that obviously stretch the imagination, I’m in the same boat, on the same river, as that fictitious student: I’ve written just about all I can about the MOU, have made my opinions strongly and clearly (I hope), and can only twiddle my thumbs, along with the rest of the province, and await the results of the talks between our crowd and their crowd, and see who blinks first.

But I........

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