Bizarronomics

From an NTV news story:

The union also wants the new corporation to develop the Lower Churchill Hydro Project on its own, with financing from Ottawa

It is a wierd, twisted, world of high finance and economics, in which, after getting someone else to invest billions of dollars in your enterprise, you can boast that you have done it on your own. But in a province where Premier Gollum has called on the federal government to "transfer" its equity stake in another project to the province, based on no more of a legal or philosophical basis than "I wants it, my preccccciouuuussssssssss", it's not at all surprising.

But it gets bizarre-er:

payback, the union says, for past federal governments not helping the province in negotiations with Quebec...

Question: if the proponents of the re-opening of the Schefferville-area iron ore mines want to drive a slurry line across Labrador to Sept-Iles... whose side should Ottawa be on?

Further question: what payback does Newfoundland then owe Labrador?