Verbatim

Himself calls off the fatwah against the CBC long enough to put on a Fureyesque three-piece and go live with Chris O’Neill-Yates, vent Our Dear Spleen at Quebec, and in the process say some really bizarre and even hilarious things.

Like this, about Quebec and its position on climate change:

They’re internationally in Copenhagen advocating climate change… they’re anti climate change.

Or this, on supposed obstruction of the imaginary Lower Churchill project:

We anticipated this, this has been their practice over the course of the last several years.

“The last several years”, of course, overlap quite significantly with the five years during which, Kathy Dunderdale revealed last fall, We had been trying to get Quebec involved in the imaginary Lower Churchill project.

Or this:

So we have the alternate route and we have the Maritime route and that’s a route that we have been diligently proceeding with and we’re in discussions of course with Nova Scotia and Emera and of course now New Brunswick is back on the table and Prince Edward Island.

Don’t know what anyone else is thinking, but wouldn’t it be better to have New Brunswick at the table, rather than on it? That is, shouldn’t We be talking with New Brunswick, not about New Brunswick?

Or this, in which it is revealed that in Dan Cosmology, time runs in both directions at once:

So, as recently as next week we’ll be having a discussion with the Atlantic Premiers and of course that had been set up prior to this Régie hearing.

Or this:

Well, y’know, we’ve done everything we can there. [i.e. in Quebec]

If by “everything” you mean “one procedural thing to get access, for cheap, to existing lines”.

Not once have “we” tried the other option, which would be pay for new, dedicated transmission capacity. The operative words there, of course, are “pay for”, two words which We must avoid at all costs, as We – snicker – “go it alone”.

Or this:

We would talk to Quebec under ordinary circumstances

Cf. the still-unreported Dunderdale Admission.

Or the following sequence of contradictions, in which it is revealed that Quebec is simultaneously off and on the rhetorical table:

Quebec is certainly off the table… We would probably proceed with the appeal [of the Régie decision]…. we would likely exhaust those recourses.

And finally this, in which we learn, a year after the initial imaginary project sanction year of 2009, that We still haven’t decided whether or not Muskrat Falls is part of the imaginary project along with the generally more economically favourable Gull Island Rapids site:

We will proceed and look at the alternate route and then look at our various options, whether that happens to be Gull or Muskrat or both.

The talkier he gets, the richer the target environment for traitors and bloggers and such.

Hopefully he won’t soon remember what the anti-CBC fatwah was all about in the first place.