The political panel talks about David Coon’s complaints about the way MLAs hand out summer jobs to students, plus the francophone teachers association’s plan to sue the government over funding. This includes a review of David Coon’s first session starting at 6:10. You can listen here.
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Mr. Speaker, this government, like governments before it has tabled a blizzard of bills at the end of the session. The difference is this government committed to creating a more effective Legislature. Standing committees were created specifically so they can receive more thorough and specialized examination by private members. First, this government broke its election promise to provide non-partisan research […]
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Fredericton – The Standing Committee on Economic Policy met for the first time on May 21, leaving member David Coon, MLA Fredericton South and Leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick, questioning its capacity to carry out its mandate. The Standing Committee on Economic Policy was established under the new standing rules of the legislature. The rules were amended […]
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Mr. Coon: The Minister of Finance keeps saying that he wants everyone to pay just a little more to balance the books and that he wants to be fair about it. Yet, New Brunswick has one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the country. Instead of the government asking corporations to pay a little bit more, they remain untouched, so we have […]
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