The Challenge

Danny Williams, having spent the last 16 months successfully lying to enough people to convince them that Stephen Harper once promised the mythical "loan guarantee" to "develop" the so-called Lower Churchill:

"I am pleased that we are now in receipt of responses from all three federal party leaders," said Premier Williams. "The Conservative and NDP responses were very encouraging on several fronts, including support for a loan guarantee for the development of the lower Churchill..." — Danny Williams, Press Release, January 17, 2006

Among other things, Harper also promised to provide a loan guarantee to help the province develop hydro power on the lower Churchill River — CBC News, January 9, 2006

has now set his sights on convincing those same people that Harper broke a promise that he never actually made:

From a fiscal perspective, we can say to Steve and company, that we don't need your guarantee on the Lower Churchill. Thanks very much for promising it to us, but your promises aren't worth the paper they're written on." — Danny Williams, CTV News, April 27, 2007

So here's the challenge: $100 bucks to charity to the first person who can furnish proof — in Stephen Harper's own, first-person words, written or spoken; not in paraphrase, not in indirect speech, and not from the mouth of Danny Williams or anyone else — that Stephen Harper ever promised to actually provide this supposed "loan guarantee".

Averill? Danny? Anyone?

Bonus points to anyone who can also explain how it is that Danny Williams is given such a free ride to carry on with such lies for so long.