It’s time for Canada to show it believes in Newfoundland and Labrador

The times are thin, paper thin, these days in Newfoundland and Labrador. Joey Smallwood, worts and all, believed in Canada. It is time for Canada to show it believes in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey. The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador last week announced serious austerity measures to put the brakes on decades of bad habits, most of them stemming from over-borrowing.

HALIFAX—I remember the day I visited Joey Smallwood in his ramshackle bungalow on the Roaches Line, off the Trans-Canada Highway west of Conception Bay.

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