“…if you are looking for some money, why don’t
you delay the monies you are paying out to Muskrat Falls…a significant amount
of money…”
These are
words of Carol Furlong, Head of the Province’s largest public sector union, NAPE,
giving advice to the Davis Government on NTV, Feb. 13th.
Furlong
continued her expostulation: “We have a war chest
now…combined assets… of more than $40 million…I can assure Government, if they
believe they can just lay off workers …they will feel the brunt of NAPE to the
full capacity of our finances.”
These are
heavily laden statements. One would be foolish to think them merely drum
beating in advance of a contested leadership.
Carol
Furlong has done what the Head of no other Union, political party, or business
organization has considered. To her membership and to NTV’s large listener audience, she has telegraphed a stark message, one slow in its evolution, perhaps, but powerful in
its timing and implication: ‘I no longer have faith in the Muskrat Falls
project’.
