Waxing poetical

Speaking of personality cults, here's an oldie-but-goodie.

See if you can identify the speaker, without resorting to Google or any other search engine. One detail, which would spoil the fun, is redacted, and the whole shebang is now in a more suitable format for poetry; otherwise it's as the speaker originally uttered it:

We Share a vision
Of a bright-more secure fate
From our lands its depths and oceans
A new wealth we will create

In partnership we stand together
All supportive of our plan
Realizing that the future
Is entrust to all our hands

Benefits from Resource Projects
We feel certain will ensure
Opportunities and promise
For Newfoundland and Labrador

Exploration on our island
Could well lead some future day
To another such discovery
As the famous Voisey's Bay

Benefits from offshore oil fields
We will maximize with pride
Develop skills, products and service
That we can market worldwide

A facility for oil transshipment
I feel certain would go best
Located near an ice free harbour
In Mortier Bay-Burin Placentia West!

Our fishery has been the backbone
That sustained us through the years
And if hindsight had been foresight
We may well have avoided tears

So until the day of plenty
Conservation must remain
So present and future generations
A healthy harvest can obtain

Tourism and aquaculture
Small Business-Education Reform
Quality Health Care and Silviculture
Are all part of our Platform

Information Highway-Gas conversion
A strategic Social Plan
A cabinet and a team with purpose
Yet hearts that feel and understand

This to the Marystown Shipyard workers
I shall not forget the day
When I toured with Premier [REDACTED]
How you welcomed us that way

Bless the vessels built for Norway
With such quality and pride
With God's help and these my colleagues
Future work we will provide.

Yes, our vision for our nation
Is progress, growth and unity
And we swear our true allegiance
To Her Most Royal Majesty.

And Sir, how I support the purpose
One to my heart so very dear
Creation of a recognition
For our outstanding volunteers.

God's Blessing on our Honourable Premier
Inspire him in his leadership
Guide the actions of his Cabinet
And all who in this Assembly sit.

Through combined talents and endurance
Divine powers to beseech
We will stand to meet each challenge
A better tomorrow is within reach!