Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey (right) and Quebec Premier François Legault look on at the start of a first ministers meeting in Ottawa on Wednesday, Jan.15, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
N.L. premier leaves office on waves of praise, worry about legacy Quebec energy deal
ST. JOHN’S - Emails to Newfoundland and Labrador’s outgoing premier show that many in the province will remember him for ending a lopsided energy deal with Quebec.
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey (right) and Quebec Premier François Legault look on at the start of a first ministers meeting in Ottawa on Wednesday, Jan.15, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
ST. JOHN’S - Emails to Newfoundland and Labrador’s outgoing premier show that many in the province will remember him for ending a lopsided energy deal with Quebec.
The emails to Furey, who is leaving office today, were obtained through an access to information request and show a hopeful public deeply engaged in energy issues, in a province still scarred from past missteps.
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About half of the messages were effusive and congratulatory — some came from people who said they were alive when the 1969 deal was signed and they were proud to finally see it end.
Others wrote with questions, advice or pleas for Furey to have the draft agreement between the two province’s public hydro utilities reviewed by independent experts.
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