A Conspiracy Unmasked

In the House of Assembly on Wednesday, Dear Leader revealed a deep, dark secret that has long been kept from the general public, and, indeed, probably from all but a very few of the personnel at both Hydro-Québec and CTVglobemedia Publishing Inc.:

PREMIER WILLIAMS: Mr. Speaker, due to the discriminatory practices that Quebec has exhibited over the years – not only in recent years, in past years – and what they have done to try and prevent us from developing the Lower Churchill and what they have done by not even considering any redress under the Upper Churchill, a long time ago we looked at alternate routes and we felt that in order to have any leverage with Quebec in any future negotiations or any leverage on the Lower Churchill, we had to look at an alternate route. That route has been known as the Maritime route – possibly, I guess, it probably should be known more correctly as the Atlantic route – but it has been known as the Maritime route.

When we first tabled that route and we put it forward, there was criticism, for example, in The Globe and Mail, there were columnists in The Globe and Mail who obviously were following direction from Hydro-Quebec that indicated that this was not possible, that this was not feasible, that underwater cables had not happened anywhere else in the world when there was ample present, but despite that controversy and despite that opposition, we proceeded and we have developed a Maritime route. We are looking at that very, very seriously. That will proceed, that will proceed on time. It will not be inhibited in any manner whatsoever by what has happened during this Régie ruling.