Doin' the cabinet shuffle shuffle

What would be the political result at the federal level if Newfoundland and Labrador were to elect six opposition MPs, and the Prime Minister, of whichever stripe, didn't appoint the lone government MP to cabinet?

Neither the overtures to Randy Collins, nor the remarkable show of... loyalty... on the part of the MHA for Lake Melville, seem to have paid off. Labrador, the "insignificant region" as Danny Williams called it after his first cabinet was sworn in, is still not sitting at the table that will make important decisions about important Labrador issues.

Or are they insignificant ones? It's so hard to remember these days.

Whatever the merits or demerits of putting John Hickey at the provincial cabinet table, it's extremely difficult for Chairman Dan to justify inflating the size of his much-vaunted smaller cabinet, in order, he said, to give voice to the Burin Peninsula and the many issues it supposedly faces, and yet not do the same, in the fifth configuration of his cabinet in less than three years, in respect of Labrador.

Especially considering that Burin is the region that both Chairman Dan and Mini-Me Byrne have rhetorically cited as another good example of a sub-provincial region which, like Labrador, does not merit any extra special consideration.