Once again Danny Williams shows that he cannot only be counted on to represent the fine people of Newfoundland and Labrador, he is also good for a few laughs along the way. It's well known in this part of Canada that there is no love lost between "Steve Harper" (as Danny likes to refer to our Prime Minister) and the Premier. It all stems from yet another broken promise from our current government. While running for office in 2006 Stephen Harper and his Conservatives vowed to uphold Newfoundland and Nova Scotia's Atlantic Accords which allowed the two provinces to keep their share of equalization payments along with the royalties from offshore oil and gas drilling. However in the 2008 budget the Conservatives broke this promise saying that it was impossible to maintain these side deals and fix equalization at the same time. Our Conservative premier in Nova Scotia, after waffling about whether he should do anything at all, eventually bargained a side deal which may or may not be as beneficial as the original accord. Not so with Danny Williams. His province has far more at stake, having larger offshore oil and gas reserves, and he has vowed to accept nothing less than the original accord. At the time he promised that should the issue not be resolved he would campaign against the federal Conservatives during the next election. Now unfortunately all this didn't exactly have Mr Harper shaking in his cowboy boots. I mean, Danny Williams is just a premier and surely couldn't leverage the amount of PR as the Conservative election team. Last Sunday our Prime Minster broke another promise and a law that he brought into the house and plunged our country into an election. Before this election call which will send Canadians to the polls on October 14th, Danny Williams participated in the popular Canadian satire "This Hour has 22 Minutes" where he compared "the treasonous Steve Harper" with Judas and other notorious villains of the past. Today he made his first speech during the federal campaign proclaiming that for Canadians this election should be as easy as "ABC". "Anybody But the Conservatives. He also mentioned that he was not very happy that the Conservatives showed a Puffin (the official bird of Newfoundland) defecating on a picture of Liberal Leader Stephane Dion in a campaign add. To me Danny Williams is what you want a politician to be. He stands up for his constituents and when he has been wronged he won't let go. Danny, I like the idea of ABC, but better yet why not put your name on the ballot. Now that would have "Steve Harper" shaking in his Cowboy boots.
-Son
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