The official Liberal opposition is changing its position on the Churchill Falls agreement with Newfoundland and Labrador, as the deal comes under fire in the neighbouring province, which is immersed in an election campaign.

When Premier François Legault signed a memorandum of understanding with his then Newfoundland counterpart Andrew Furey last December, interim PLQ leader Marc Tanguay argued that “it doesn’t seem like a good deal at all” and, according to him, the CAQ leader was a “bad negotiator.”

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But the new Liberal leader, Pablo Rodriguez, i

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