Danny Williams thinks that Newfoundland MPs who vote against the budget are actually voting against the Atalntic Accord
and should be punished:
Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams wants all of the province's MPs to vote for the federal budget.That will put pressure on the province's two Conservative MPs, Loyola Hearn and Norm Doyle, chairman of the Tory caucus. The rest of the province's four MPs are Liberals and the riding of Labrador has been vacant since the death of Liberal MP Lawrence O'Brien in December.
The premier says that voting against the federal budget will be a conscious decision to vote against the revamped Atlantic Accord, signed last February, which is expected to bring an additional $2.6 billion to provincial coffers over the next eight years.
What he really means is that his government is under massive pressure over the crab fishery and he needs to create a distraction. Or at least he must mean this because it seems unlikely that the Premier would be supporting election fraud. He had ample opportunity to take down the flags until Paul Martin seperated the Atlantic Accord provisions from the budget bill. hear my podcast at BlogMatrix