Prime Minister Stephen Harper challenged Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to sue his government in a disagreement over the Atlantic accords. Speaking in Toronto on June 11th, Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald claimed Harper broke his promise to exclude offshore resource revenues from the federal equalization formula. (MacDonald urged the Conservative MPs from his province to vote against the federal budget in protest.)

Date: 2007-06-11
Placeline: TORONTO, Ontario.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 7 seconds

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