For Danny and Joan

Joan Forsey, in what may well be her last NewfNat revisionist rant in the pages of the Newfoundland Weekly Separatist, says:

With regard to the fishery, the federal government’s record has been equally — if not more — detrimental to the province. It made major decisions without even consulting the province (e.g., when closing fisheries). And it has ignored the province’s two perennial requests: for a stronger federal stand against overfishing outside the 200-mile limit; and for joint management of the fishery.

As Roger Grimes said when he was premier in 2003: “Some form of joint management has been sought by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and advocated by various independent bodies since the late 1970s. All have been met with rejection, dismissal, inaction, or silence by the federal government, a trend that continues today.”

Perhaps it has been forgotten in the Great Selective Memory Hole that is the Newfoundland Nationalist mindset, but in the 2003 provincial election, Danny Williams' platform promised:

A Progressive Conservative government will pursue a Canada - Newfoundland and Labrador Fisheries Agreement for a decision-making process in which the federal and provincial governments work in partnership for the sustainable management of the fisheries.

During the 2005-06 federal election campaign, the Harper Conservatives promised:

A Conservative Government will adopt, with any interested coastal province or territory, a system of increased provincial management over fisheries through a system of joint management and joint fisheries councils modelled on the system proposed by unanimous resolution of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly in May 2003 and as detailed in the government of Newfoundland and Labrador's white paper on the subject as released in 2003.

Then, all of a sudden, nothing happened. Harper was elected in January 2006, and, other than repeating his 2003 promise, word for word, in his 2007 platform, Danny Williams the man who would be Taoiseach, has not uttered the phrase "joint management" since.

How come, Joan?

How come, Danny?

Isn't this one of those "perennial requests"?

Or is Danny just not a Premier of an "interested coastal province"?