Always

Dean MacDonald, on the loyalty, subservience, and deference of Dean MacDonald:

CW: So you’re a Liberal, but you support the premier?

DM: Yeah, I think all Newfoundlanders support the premier, you know in terms of whoever is the premier always has my support. You know, I’m trying to help in any way I can as a citizen.

Whoever is the premier always has his support?

That would depend on what your definition of "always" is. (To say nothing of "trying to help".)

Just consider the goings-on barely six short years ago, when Deano, having had the support of the premier of the day — who appointed him to the board of Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro — had a funny way of showing his support in return. As Moira Baird reported for the Telegram on November 26, 2002:

The former chairman of Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro says the proposed Lower Churchill agreement with Quebec is a bad, lop-sided deal for the province.

Dean MacDonald's advice to the government of Premier Roger Grimes is simple: Don't sign it.

MacDonald resigned from Hydro's board of directors Friday — one of three directors who voted against the Lower Churchill development project.

He was also one of two directors who resigned from the Hydro board.

"At the end of the day I approached it as if I owned this company and this deal was presented to me and would I go for it — and I wouldn't," said MacDonald from his office in Ottawa.

"I really think it's one-sided."

Someone should ask Roger Grimes how "supportive" and "helpful" Dean MacDonald always is.