Not his department

The crack provincial finmin Jerome Kennedy is pledging multilateral help for the Grand Falls-Windsor region. As CBC reports:

"The issue of all the displaced workers, the bridging to retirement, the issues of training and retraining — these are issues that we will have to look at, but there are other departments that will play a significant role," said Kennedy, whose meeting with people in the area ran two hours longer than expected.

"Other departments," indeed. As the good Minister explained on the airwaves of that other radio station, and as his cabinet colleague laid out the other day, other, federal, departments.

If The Provincial Government gets its way, soon there'll be more than enough money coming in from the federal government that they'll be able to declare financial autonomy once and for all.