Author Archives: David Coon

Hire more nurses to end ER bottleneck: N.B. critics – Telegraph Journal – 7 March 2018

“This government loves setting up committees and creating plans and strategies that it never implements. What we need is action.”- David Coon Article by: JOHN CHILIBECK Legislature Bureau Staff shortages that have caused bottlenecks at hospital emergency rooms and nursing homes in New Brunswick could be solved if the government started hiring more nurses, say opposition critics.Both Progressive Conservative and […]

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Climate Change Fund Mostly Funding Existing Government Expenditures

Fredericton – According to Green Party Leader David Coon, most of the government’s Climate Change Fund is a re-allocation of expenditures the government was already making. “This government’s Climate Change Fund is empty,” said Coon. “I discovered, from questioning cabinet ministers at Estimates Committee, this is merely an accounting exercise, re-branding existing spending.” Seventy percent of the money branded as […]

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Fixing the Economy, Starts Here at Home

In my last commentary, I wrote about the priority the Green Party places on increasing the local production of goods and services to replace imports, as a means to create work and lasting prosperity right here at home. This Monday, two important studies were released which illustrate the potential of import replacement as an effectives strategy for economic development. New […]

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Federal Home Care Dollars Funding Transfer of the Extra Mural Program to Private Management

Fredericton – According to Green Party Leader David Coon, the majority of the $12.4 million New Brunswick has received from the Canada-New Brunswick Home and Community Care Funding Agreement will pay for transferring the Province’s extra mural program from the regional health authorities to the management of Medavie. “The federal home care money could have helped seniors with the daily […]

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