The circumlocutory portion of the province

Or, the island that dare not speak its name. From the chapter of today's Auditor-General's report concerning ferry services:

Thirteen of these vessels service the Island portion of the Province while the remaining 5 vessels service Labrador.

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Figure 1 shows the 15 passenger ferry routes for the Island portion of the Province and for Labrador.

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Thirteen of these vessels service the Island portion of the Province while the remaining 5 vessels service Labrador.

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In 2005, the Department hired a consultant to evaluate ferry services on the Island portion of the Province “…to conduct an analysis of various aspects of a vessel replacement strategy for the ferry services around the Island of Newfoundland.”

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As Figure 5 indicates, 4 of the 8 Government-owned vessels servicing the island portion of the Province are well over 30 years old.

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As Figure 5 also indicates, all contractor-owned vessels servicing the island portion of the Province are over 30 years of age with 4 of the 5 vessels being 40 years old or older. These vessels are expected to have similar age-related problems to those of the Government-owned fleet.

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Although, these contracts have gone to tender, there is no comprehensive plan in place addressing the replacement of contractor-owned vessels servicing the Island portion of the Province.

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To facilitate vessel replacement planning, we would expect the Department to conduct a long-range traffic forecast for all marine services on both the Island portion of the Province and Labrador to help determine the size of replacement vessels needed.

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It can be seen from the Figure 5 that the majority of the vessels providing Provincial ferry services for the island portion of Newfoundland are old.

Ummmm... is there some portion of Newfoundland that isn't island?