Earlier this month, Premier Paul Davis said the Harper government should honour its promise to put $280 million into the $400-million federal-provincial fund. However, the Prime Minister's Office has said an unspecified amount is available for direct losses in the fisheries sector but no "blank cheque" was ever offered. In a letter to Davis, released Monday, Trudeau says while the Liberal party supports free trade with the European Union, it also believes that the Conservative government has failed to adequately address the concerns of the province's fish processors. "The abolition of minimum processing requirements is clearly of great concern to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador and your government's support of the (free trade deal) was earned, in part, by a promise from the government of Canada to help the industry adjust to the new reality," the letter says. "That promise should be honoured."