What part of the Atlantic Accord don't you understand?

After all these years, a truly bizarre suggestion today from the Telegram masthead:

At the moment, we have a healthy amount of oil revenue coming into provincial coffers; that money, sadly, is from a non-renewable resource, and will eventually run out.

What if the province decided, instead, to talk to the federal government about diverting a segment of that oil capital away from general revenues, and into an endowment fund to significantly change the financial dynamics of attending the province's post-secondary institutions?

Why would the province have "to talk to the federal government about" anything?

The province, alone, with no intercession in any way, shape, or form, by the federal government, the province, the provincial government, that entity seated in St. John's, not Ottawa, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Telegram masthead, already collects, and always has collected, those "oil revenues", and can do, and does do, whatever it wants with them.

Really.

Seriously.

Honestly.

For the love of Pete.