“With regard to the vote, Mr. Hearn has to be consistent,” Williams told reporters at Confederation Building…."The money in the bank is what I want, and if this budget gets passed, then we will see the money,” the premier said.
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“So, we have no way, then, of forecasting what the outcome of an election is going to be, what the influence of the Bloc (Quebecois) is going to be. … The Bloc might have something to say about Newfoundland and Labrador getting (its) Accord money.”
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“If the budget bill is defeated, the new Atlantic Accord agreement and Newfoundland and Labrador’s rightful share of offshore revenues are at real risk of being lost,” St. John’s Board of Trade president Marilyn Thompson said in her letter.