Steve MacLellan

Newfoundland and Labrador Justice Minister Andrew Parsons is sending the 1,200-page report, released Tuesday, over to the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary to investigate whether any of the Crown corporation’s executives or top bureaucrats committed crimes in the planning and construction of the bungled $12.7-billion hydroelectric dam.

Parsons has mixed emotions about asking the provincial police force to look into Muskrat Falls. As an elected Liberal opposed to the Tory-led project, he has a strong disdain for the dam, but said he cannot jump to conclusions as attorney general.

“I’m pissed off,” Parsons told The St. John’s Morning Show. “I’m pissed off because we were all told we weren’t smart enough to debate this with government, we were told we didn’t know anything and right now my kids are going to have the pay the bills for what these people did. And I’m frustrated.

"But at the same time, [I am] the attorney general, where we have to make non-partisan, impartial decisions that are not based on emotion.”