Here comes the truth on the ship building contract! What was the excuse again Premier?

Please read the story below from Metro News in Halifax.

I have highlighted the areas of importance.

One thing is for sure - something stinks or somebody is incompetent. Madame Premier - which is it?

Hurry up Premier Dunderdale - if Quebec gets the contract - we will have to giveaway Muskrat to Nova Scotia to help them through the loss. If Irving gets it - MacKay did a great job. Poor old Kiewit - see if you can find them some engineers then go for an extension.

Just last week, all three parties in the Nova Scotia legislature were aligning themselves behind Irving Shipbuilding’s bid to obtain a lucrative national shipbuilding contract.

Yesterday, in another rare display of crossing party lines, the governing NDP and the third-place Progressive Conservatives teamed up to attack the federal Liberal’s position on the issue.

The parties were reacting to news reports that quoted Denis Coderre, a high-profile Liberal MP from Quebec, as saying a Liberal government would extend a key deadline to allow the Davie Shipyard to compete for the $35-billion, 30-year contract.

“In power, the Liberal Party will issue a directive, so that Quebec can also apply for this important contract,” Corderre told Le Journal de Levis.

PC MLA Chuck Porter said the federal Liberal position would threaten Irving’s chances.

“(Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff’s) plan is one that could push the Halifax Shipyard out of contention contract,” said Porter.

Premier Darrell Dexter agreed with Porter, saying he was “very shocked” to read Coderre’s comments.

“I have asked my staff, on my instruction, to draft a letter to the leader of the federal Liberal Party expressing our disappointment in his comments,” said Dexter.

“If this was to be in fact the position of the federal government, it runs the risk of stunting the growth of Atlantic Canada.”