Labrador Highway Then and Now (episode 3)

Then:

I rise to inform this House that government is today prepared to pledge an additional $50 million over five years for the Trans-Labrador Highway to reach a cost-sharing agreement that would see the federal government match this contribution.

The total cost of surfacing the Trans-Labrador Highway from Happy Valley-Goose Bay to Labrador City is estimated at about $100 million. We have written the federal government requesting a commitment for a 50/50 cost-sharing agreement to have this work completed over five years. [Trevor Taylor, Ministerial Statement, December 12, 2005]

Transportation Minister John Hickey is confident the federal and provincial governments will each contribute $10 million next year as part of the five-year, $100-million hard-topping contract for the Trans-Labrador Highway. [The Telegram, November 29, 2006]

Now:

$17 million for construction of Phase III of the Trans Labrador Highway and $15 million (cost-shared with federal government) to provide a sealed surface on Phase I of the Trans Labrador Highway. [2007 budget highlights]

Point of information: two times $10-million is $20-million, not $15-million. $100-million, divided by five years, divided by two governments, is $10-million per government per year. Or, alternatively, half of $15-million is $7.5-million, not $10-million. What the province (conditionally) "committed", and what the province (conditionally) budgetted, do not synch up.