Blue blood is thicker than water

If there were any doubts that the Provincial Communist party of Danny Williams wasn't willing to bend over backwards to make the Harper Conservatives look good, Tom Rideout puts them to rest. VOCM reports today:

Federal Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn says a shrimp quota is not the solution to the woes facing Harbour Breton. Hearn says the shrimp industry is already dealing with low prices and stiff competition. He says his department had 22 requests for shrimp quotas and he won't be allocating any new quotas this year. He says government shouldn't address the concerns of communities like Harbour Breton by giving them shrimp because he questions where the giving stops. Hearn says it was a bad precedent to start in the beginning and with an industry in trouble, giving everybody shrimp is not the answer.

Fisheries Minister Tom Rideout says the provincial government supported in writing an allocation of 15 hundred tonnes of shrimp for Harbour Breton. Rideout says he's disappointed but it's the federal minister's call.

Does anyone remember Rideout or his party ever being this deferential to Geoff Regan or Herb Dhaliwal or their "call"?