Significance

Scrummed outside his State of the Province address – you would think such an important speech would be published on-line, but you’d be wrong – Our Dear Premier says:

Thierry Vandal, the president of Hydro-Quebec, says that they’re going to have unlimited, guaranteed access to transmission in New Brunswick. That’s a significant statement for the head of Hydro-Quebec to make.

Indeed.

About as significant, one imagines, as when Premiers of provinces which are neither New Brunswick nor Quebec asks for, um, guaranteed access to transmission in New Brunswick:

That is why we are asking the New Brunswick government to:

1) finalize an agreement, by February 2010, prior to signing of the definitive agreements between New Brunswick and Hydro Quebec, subject to normal environmental assessment and permitting, to construct a new interprovincial transmission line through New Brunswick to the Maine/NB border, separate from the existing NB grid […]