The Lash

Danny Williams lashes out at N.L. doctors [Headline, CBC News, March 17, 2010]

“This is my heart, it’s my health, it’s my choice.” On Monday, Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams lashed out against critics, who say that his decision to travel to Florida for heart surgery is a sign of his lack of faith in the Canadian health care system. [Globe and Mail, via Maclean's, February 23, 2010]

Williams lashes out at Quebec-N.B. power deal [Headline, CBC News, October 30, 2009]

The premier not only slammed Eastern Health, but lashed out at Michael, saying her political opportunism has disgraced the work of NDP leaders such as Jack Layton and Ed Broadbent. [Barb Sweet, The Telegram, June 5, 2009]

Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams lashed out Monday at the province's largest health authority, accusing Eastern Health of downplaying revelations that it had missed dozens of breast cancer patients in a massive retesting exercise. [CBC News, April 6, 2009]

Williams' relationship with the inquiry, which he called in early 2007, has been testy. Last May, he harshly criticized the questioning of government witnesses by inquiry counsel as inquisitorial. He lashed out again a month later at commissioner Justice Margaret Cameron, saying her questioning of his chief of staff Brian Crawley showed "disdain." [Ken Meaney, Southam News, October 27, 2008]

Premier lashes out against accusations [Headline on CP copy, Kamloops Daily News, May 12, 2008]

Premier Danny Williams denied accusations Monday that his government sat on information three years ago about problems with breast cancer testing in Newfoundland and lashed out at the opposition and media for rushing to assign blame in the affair. [Tara Brautigam, CP, April 8, 2008]

Building upon past nationalist rhetoric, Premier Danny Williams lashed out at the Prime Minister in his Throne Speech yesterday, saying Newfoundland and Labrador will become one of Canada's most prosperous provinces - in spite of Ottawa. [Tara Brautigam, CP, March 11, 2008]

Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams lashed out at the prime minister yesterday, telling reporters Stephen Harper told him last year he doesn't need to win seats in Newfoundland to win a federal election. Williams says the comment was made when the two met last November. [Barb Sweet, The Telegram, January 15, 2008]

Newfoundland premier lashes out at PM [Headline on wire copy, Edmonton Journal, August 12, 2007]

Premier Danny Williams accused federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty of perpetrating a "fraud" on Newfoundland over equalization and demanded Wednesday that he resign immediately. At a scathing news conference where he lashed out at Flaherty and three Newfoundland Conservatives MPs, Williams alleged the minister kept quiet for a week about misleading economic statements to deflate Newfoundland's push for more money under equalization. [CP, April 19, 2007]

Nfld. premier lashes out at Harper, Lord over equalization [Headline, Moncton Times-Transcript, December 2, 2006]

Last week, Premier Danny Williams lashed out at ExxonMobil, blaming the oil giant for scuttling a potential deal to develop the Hebron-Ben Nevis field. [Rob Antle, The Telegram, April 3, 2006]

Joyce Hancock was in her hometown of Stephenville on the weekend when Premier Danny Williams lashed out at her in a speech he delivered to the Progressive Conservative party's annual convention in St. John's. [Deana Stokes-Sullivan, The Telegram, October 19, 2005]

Prior to Martin's speech, Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams lashed out at existing treaties that are designed to govern the fishing of North Atlantic stocks in international waters, calling them weak and ineffectual. [Richard Foot, Canwest, May 2, 2005]

Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams lashed out at Ottawa on Thursday, suggesting the federal government was orchestrating negative publicity about his decision to remove Maple Leaf flags from all provincial buildings. "We've seen a barrage of letters that are coming to our local papers ... and this is all part of the communications machine that's been put together by the federal government," he told VOCM radio. "They're basically trying to embarrass Newfoundland and Labrador, and we're not going to succumb." Canadian flags started coming down last Thursday after talks broke down with Ottawa over offshore energy revenues. [CP, December 31, 2004]

Last Thursday, Williams lashed out at his critics in the midst of tense contract negotiations.
"Let me just serve notice right now on anybody out there who's in a union – don't go near my family or my home or the homes of our ministers or anybody else in our caucus because I can tell you right now, they will be out 'til the cows come home if they go near any members of our families," he said. [CP, April 6, 2004]