Negative charge

From a Peter Walsh piece in Saturday's Telegram, in which Michael Temelini comments on the astonishing parachute-candidate phenomenon in this year's federal election:

"That, to me, is why Lacey Lewis is there. Why would you put a Newfoundlander in the Labrador riding? It plays into all the negative (political) attitudes that Labradorians have toward Newfoundlanders."

It's an article of faith among the PWG-waving set that Labradorians have "negative attitudes" towards Newfoundlanders.

Of course, it's also an article of faith that Canada traded fish quotas for... well, fill in the following blank; the iterations of that myth are too many to count now:

Canada traded fish quotas for ____________________