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Former Ottawa hired gun serves up insider look at ‘most vicious federal-provincial battle in Newfoundland and Labrador’s history’

Bill Rowe, author of The War With Ottawa: The Inside Story By a Hired Gun, takes a 'warts-and-all' look at former Newfoundland premier Danny Williams' fight with prime minister Paul Martin for $2-billion, what was called the Atlantic Accord Crisis in 2004

On a November afternoon in 2004 in a room off the Prime Minister's Office in Centre Block, John Hamm, then-premier of Nova Scotia, was in a meeting with Danny Williams, premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, and prime minister Paul Martin. The three men were hashing out the details of the Atl...

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