A living document

In their preamble to the Labrador Northern Strategic Plan, or the Strategic Labrador Northern Plan, or the Planning Northern Strategic Labrador, or whatever it's called, Ministers Hickey and Rideout make the following pronouncement:

This document should be viewed as a living document and we encourage you to read it and submit any thoughts that you would like to share with us. It will be updated regularly to adjust to changes in demography, technology, society and the economy.

In a backgrounder to the Northern Plan Labrador Strategic, appears this curious little promiselet:

The Provincial Government will continue to:

Secure funding to hard surface the remainder of the Trans-Labrador Highway upon completion of hard surfacing of Phase I

Setting aside the question of how you can "continue to secure" something you haven't yet begun to secure at all* — and this statement is also followed by the promise to "continue to ... finalize the decision on central airport for Southern Labrador", something most governments would not just do once, not continuously, but would also have long since done by now — this raises a couple of other interesting questions.

First: "secure" from whom? Why can't the province fund this on its own? Isn't Labrador part of a province? If so, which one?

Second: if this part of the plan, "continuing to secure funding for the remainder of the Trans-Labrador Highway", is so important, why didn't it make it into the published version of the mother document?

"Living document", alright.

Yet another subtle indication that the Labrador Strategic Plan Northern has been concocted on the fly, not with any Labrador plan or Labrador strategy in mind, other than re-electing the two incumbent PC members, and possibly adding to the PC seat total north of the Strait of Belle Isle. And to further that goal, if you have to make up things that aren't even in it, in order to broaden its appeal or neutralize potential criticism, all the better, if it meets the strategic objectives that strategic plan is meant to strategize: those of the Danny Williams cult.


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* The Tobin/Grimes provincial Liberals were frequently guilty of the same thing, promising to "continue" doing things, in Labrador and elsewhere, which they hadn't actually commenced doing.