article by Jacques Poitras, CBC “It goes from amending legislation dealing with agriculture, to legislation dealing with car salvage, vehicle salvage. So it’s from soup to nuts. It’s nuts.”- David Coon Opposition politicians are threatening to slow down the work of the New Brunswick Legislature to protest a so-called “omnibus” government bill that’s 77 pages and would amend 14 different […]
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Mr. Speaker, last night I read this government’s omnibus bill. It eliminates two Crown Corporations, transfers public property and public employees to a private corporation, it fundamentally alters the arbitration process in the Industrial Relations Act and the Public Service Relations Act to favour the employer. It amends the Highways Act, the Limitations of Actions Act, the NB Liquor Control […]
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Mr. Speaker, it’s good to be back in the House. I wish I could say that the committees of this parliament were busy in the meantime. However, only the Committee on Estimates met. A decade ago, the Committee on Public Accounts had met 14 times by this time since the beginning of January. This year we have not met at […]
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photo taken from CBC Fredericton – On Tuesday March 8th, David Coon, MLA for Fredericton South and Leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick, sent a letter to Francine Landry, Minister for the department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour, to request an independent mediator be appointed to resolve the impasse between the employees and management of Covered Bridge […]
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