Enemies, domestic and foreign

Dear Premier doesn’t like threats:

I don’t respond very well to threats. I don’t listen to threats. Nor will We honour those threats. So its up to nurses to do what they wanna do there… We’ll deal with it. We’ll just deal with it. ButIgottatellya, threats of mass resignation in order to extort benefits or extra salaries or extra leave from government, it’s not on for Us.

No, He really doesn’t like threats:

This Government does not respond favourably to threats or misleading information.

Well, he doesn’t like receiving threats, anyway.

Making them – that’s sumpin’ else, as we learn, again, today. This time, the target is one Sam Synard:

If only the Mayor would watch what he’s sayin’ down there, We’d be a lot happier.

He added, minutes later:

That’s Sam, he doesn’t count.

It’s pretty well inevitable: when, for a variety of reasons, internal and external, you can no longer go to war against Ottawa every ten days, you have to find your enemies somewhere else.

Quebec, the Burin Peninsula. Whatever. They’re both near St. Pierre, aren’t they?