Lost in the mail? No response to N.L. Premier's letter to federal party leaders

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· Posted: Apr 23, 2025 11:45 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

It's been much than 2 weeks since outgoing Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey outlined a agelong database of priorities successful a missive to national governmental leaders, but truthful acold determination has not been a written response, his bureau confirmed connected Wednesday.

Furey wrote a missive to enactment leaders Mark Carney, Pierre Poilievre, Jagmeet Singh and Yves-François Blanchet connected April 8, stressing the request for enactment successful the look of a commercialized warfare with the United States, and the request to fortify and diversify the provincial system arsenic caller markets extracurricular of the U.S. are explored, and inter-provincial commercialized barriers are removed.

In his letter, helium asked for a committedness to destruct what helium called "costly" Marine Atlantic fees, which helium says is simply a commercialized obstruction for the question of passengers and goods to and from the province.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney promised this week to chopped the outgo of question successful Atlantic Canada, including a simplification successful the fees for the Marine Atlantic ferry work betwixt Newfoundland and Nova Scotia "by astatine slightest half."

At a run halt successful Newfoundland and Labrador successful aboriginal April, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he'd consider a complaint simplification for the ferry service.

Arctic information and Labrador

Furey called upon the parties to disregard a connection by the erstwhile Liberal authorities to enforce c emissions caps connected the lipid and state industry, found associated federal-provincial absorption of the sportfishing industry, and to overhaul the equalization look to amended bespeak the higher outgo of delivering services successful the province.

Furey wants a nationalist programme to assistance money infrastructure projects specified arsenic marine larboard upgrades to enactment trade, caller transmission lines to enactment the request for renewable energy, and improved roads to amended link communities and industries to nationalist commercialized corridors.

He besides requested investments successful the subject basal successful Happy Valley-Goose Bay successful bid to heighten Arctic security, and asked for a committedness to proceed enactment of affordable kid attraction programs.

"We besides necessitate the flexibility to money societal infrastructure to enactment our increasing population," Furey wrote. 

After the April 28 vote, it's expected that either Carney oregon Poilievre volition beryllium premier minister. Carney has said helium volition support and fortify the $10-a-day aboriginal learning and kid attraction system. Poilievre has said helium supports affordable kid care, but has said helium wants changes to the existent model.

Both the Liberals and Conservatives person made promises to fast-track approvals for ample infrastructure projects, portion the Conservatives person besides promised to repeal each c pricing, including connected concern emitters.

Furey, meanwhile, was not disposable for an interrogation connected Wednesday. 

But helium wrote successful his missive that the state has an abundance of captious minerals, low-emissions lipid production, seafood and upwind vigor potential, and a national concern is indispensable to "unlock the afloat worth of these resources."

"This requires investing successful strategical infrastructure development, reducing regulatory uncertainty, and expediting approvals," helium added.

The crumbling narration betwixt Canada and the United States has dominated statement successful the national campaign, with U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and threats to Canada's sovereignty overshadowing issues specified arsenic clime change.

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