L'état, c'est elle

On September 4th, an official Government of Newfoundland and Labrador twitter account began its tweeting, billing itself as "News and information from the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador."


As of October 3rd, a quarter of that account's tweets consist of breathless live-tweet coverage of this speech-like thing.

So, if you were wondering whether the descent into Dannywilliamsian personality-cult politics was complete?

It is.