VOCM reports today:
Little inconvenient problem: the new government never promised any such thing.HNL Holds AGM
February 9, 2006Tour operators in the province hope to see the federal government come through with lower rates on the ferry service between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador begins its annual convention in Gander today and president Nick McGrath says the ferry service is one area that needs attention.
Danny Williams wrote:
Immediate action is required of the Federal Government to:Stephen Harper responded:
Require MAI to implement a one – time rate reduction of 15% in 2006.
Both of these actions are consistent with recommendations of the Minister of Transport’s Advisory Committee on Marine Atlantic contained in the Committee’s Strategy for the Future of MAI.
Does your party support these actions?
A Conservative government would live up to and respect its constitutional responsibilies to the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and would give serious consideration to implementing your stated recommendations, however we would have to review the financial implications of the rate reduction.In other words: a long-winded way of saying "No."
It seems as if Danny Williams isn't the only one who's been reading into Harper's letter that which he wants to read into it.
And when is Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador going to address the Labrador ferry situation, anyway?
posted by WJM @ 2:36 AM
3 Comments:
Nope! Government read in what they wanted to read in, and also to help mis-direct the public. There's no way Chairman Dan could stir up hysteria, down the road, about what was actually in the letters, but he can easily stir up an existential crisis or two about what he has led people to believe was in them.
The media's reporting of the letters, especially Harper's, and the blatant parroting of Danny's interpretation, instead of the actual content, of the letters, has been abyssmal.
A bunch of guys who've never been called to the bar can parse them, but the Rhodes Scholar can't. Or won't.
I'm probably using the ferry next week. Walk on for about 20 bucks. I have no complaints.
Mile-per-mile, Marine Atlantic runs the cheapest ferries in Canada with the possible exception of the Lewisporte-Goose Bay and Chandler-Cap-aux-Meules routes.
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