The gall!

A hilarious blast from the not-so-distant past:

PREMIER GRIMES: Well, there was a premier for forty-one days or so in between who was a Conservative, but the last Conservative one who was here bragging about the fact that: I am a fighter. I went to court on the Upper Churchill. I went to court on the offshore.

Sure he did, and guess what he did both times? Lost. Because he was more interested, Mr. Speaker, in trying to pretend and wanting to pretend and falsely making the people of the Province believe that he would rather fight for them rather than do something to develop the Province. As a matter of fact, the truth in the offshore is this: what we are doing now is celebrating twenty-five years with NOIA and five years of oil, yesterday, is ten years delayed because the Premier wore a black armband and went to court rather than do something about developing the offshore when it could have been done ten years ago.

SOME HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear!

PREMIER GRIMES: That is the reality of it. That is the fact, Mr. Speaker. That is what is happening in Newfoundland and Labrador, and the former premier - former, former, former premier - who sits over there knows it because he was with the group and he is saying nothing today because he knows it is true.

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MR. WILLIAMS: How dare this Premier, of all people, impute the motives of someone like Brian Peckford, a passionate Newfoundlander!