The guarantee still eludes.
The Premier is on tender hooks. She can’t schedule the debate in the House of
Assembly and MHI can’t complete its final report unless the guarantee arrives.
Is this why the Premier was recently heard in the media voicing the possibility
that the debate could take place without the guarantee?
To those who say that the Feds made a commitment,
I’d say what about the “conditions” attached to the offer.
On Sept.
12, 2012 the CBC recorded federal Finance Minister,
following a speech in St. John's, saying:
“We have a commitment…to provide the loan guarantee, and we have to work
on the details, of course…we will
honour the commitment”.
Two weeks later, on September 27, 2012, concerned
that the guarantee (and hence, the project) was falling off the rails, Dunderdale
raced off to Ottawa to meet with PM Harper but came up empty handed.
Now the end of October is upon us. Still, there
is no loan guarantee, notwithstanding the new impetus ostensibly given federal
bureaucrats by the Prime Minister. 