A political analyst is unsure whether the current debate in the House of Assembly will shed further light on the agreement reached between this province and Quebec on the Upper Churchill and future hydro developments in Labrador.

Author of political blog The Bond Papers Ed Hollett says what’s happening this week is in stark contrast to the process undertaken during the Atlantic Accord negotiations.

At that time, in 1984-85, “the negotiating team had a clear set of directions as to what they were going to do. Even in 2010 we had a Memorandum of Understanding between the parties to the Muskrat Falls deal that told all of us outside enough that we could make sense of what was going on” says Hollett.

“In this case, the parties to the agreement are giving completely different numbers, and no reasonable explanation as to why those numbers are different.”

Hollett, who has been hired by the two Independent members to advise them on the discussions, says in this case, the process lacks time and detail.

He says all the expert guests are part of the negotiating team, “there’s no separate oversight, there’s no questioning, there’s no actual subjecting anything to scrutiny. So this is not a debate.”