There’s no doubt in the mind of the province’s largest union that hiring a consultant to review the assets of government will result in holdings such as the highly-profitable Newfoundland and Labrador Liquor Corporation being sold to the highest bidder.

The Crown corporation is going to return over $200-million to the provincial coffers this fiscal year, but NAPE President Jerry Earle says it’s time for the government to come clean and be honest with the people.

He says the whole exercise of hiring a consultant is about taking the assets that every Newfoundlander and Labrador owns and turning them over to some large company, likely from the mainland, to stuff their shareholders’ pockets with large profits and leave us high and dry.