Mr. Speaker, I rise today to reply to a most baffling budget. As George W. Bush once said, “it’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.” But as an expression of this government’s vision and priorities for New Brunswick, it is perplexing.
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Written by CANADALAND & NB Media Co-op on March 31, 2015 The Irving family of New Brunswick own more land than anyone in the world except for royalty and the Pope, declared Jesse Brown at opening of the live recording of his show, Canadaland, at St. Thomas University in Fredericton on Feb. 19. “How do they use their media monopoly […]
Read moreMr. Speaker, the Memorandum of Agreement signed with J.D. Irving on February 7th last year guarantees an unsustainable level of clear cutting for the next 25 years. What it does not guarantee is the number of jobs that will be created from J.D. Irving’s planned investments in its business. The Memorandum of Agreement contains an estimate made by David Campbell, […]
Read moreMr. Speaker, it has been decades since any government has had staff dedicated to promoting rural development. In fact rural community development has not been among government priorities since the 1980s. The decline in student numbers in rural schools should be seen as an opportunity to strengthen rural communities by utilizing them to provide child care, senior care, early childhood […]
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