Green Party leader says non-partisan civil servants, not MLAs, should decide what groups earn summer job funds. The leader of the Green Party has blown the whistle on a system of awarding provincially-funded summer jobs that he says the Liberals and the Progressive Conservatives have used for years. Green Party Leader David Coon said it’s time for the government to […]
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Mr. Speaker, Today is International Workers’ Day, a commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago when police fired on workers during a general strike for the eight hour workday. Today the people of New Brunswick benefit from the sacrifice of these early labour protestors, but not all benefit equally. Non-unionized staff, particularly in the service sector, have no protection […]
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Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General’s report on ATCON contained some remarkable evidence about the failure of government financial assistance to business to create jobs. The Office of the Comptroller evaluated $300M provided to 130 companies. Of the 13 companies that received more than $5M, 10,358 net jobs were targeted to be created, but only 2 were actually created. Of the […]
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