Political Panel: Changes to Nursing Home Care Fees (CBC Terry Seguin May 7)
CBC Political Panel with Terry Seguin the Panel discusses changes to nursing home fees.
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Question Period: Corporate Tax – May 5, 2015
Mr. Coon: The Minister of Finance and his colleagues keep repeating that they are simply asking those with a little more to pay a little extra to increase revenues and to cut expenses. He is particularly asking women to do so, yet he is giving some of the biggest and wealthiest enterprises in our province a free pass. They are […]
Read morePressure increases on province to rein in payday loans: (JOHN CHILIBECK LEGISLATURE BUREAU – April 10, 2015)
Critics say working poor become trapped in debt cycle because of high interest rates When times were tough, Andrew Mc-Namara had to resort to using a payday loan company to make ends meet. The Fredericton man has a better job now and no longer uses the loan-of-last-resort, but the memory of borrowing $200 and having to pay back more than […]
Read moreQuestion Period: Payday Loans – April 9, 2015
Mr. Coon: There was a commentary by Randy Hatfield in yesterday’s Telegraph-Journal. He is with the Saint John Human Development Council, and he described how payday lenders set up shop around poor neighbourhoods such as Ward 3 in Saint John, where one out of two children lives in poverty now. The Financial and Consumer Services Commission has now completed its […]
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