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The construction site of the hydroelectric facility at Muskrat Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador. About a quarter of Newfoundland's 545,000 residents are older than 65.

Voters in Newfoundland and Labrador are about to exercise their democratic franchise in the most important election their province has faced since it joined Canada in 1949.

Indeed, the whole country has a big stake in the Oct. 14 election that will determine the fate of a proposed massive energy deal with Quebec , a deal that would go a long way toward addressing Newfoundland’s dire fiscal straits and avert a federal bailout of the province.

The financial reality facing Canada’s most indebted province (relative to the size of its economy) is stark.

Newfoundland has Canada’s oldest population ; about a quar

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