article by John Chillibeck, Telegraph Journal FREDERICTON • A huge budget jump in the provincial cabinet office – to $17 million from $5.5 million over a decade – is proof of the concentration of power at the top, says an opposition MLA. David Coon, the Green MLA for Fredericton South, says the transfer of many top-earning civil servants to […]
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un article d’Acadie nouvelle par Mathieu Roy-Comeau Une autre histoire d’aide financière aux entreprises tourne mal au Nouveau-Brunswick. Le gouvernement provincial a perdu près d’une dizaine de millions de dollars dans la faillite d’une entreprise d’élevage du saumon. La faillite de Admiral Fish Farms en juillet 2013 a coûté 9 millions $ à la province du Nouveau-Brunswick, Fredericton a été […]
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Fredericton – David Coon, MLA Fredericton South and Leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick is repeating his call for the government to refer the report of the Auditor General concerning Atcon to the Office of Public Prosecutions, as it has done for the report of the Right to Information Commissioner concerning the Larry’s Gulch Affair. The Right to […]
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Fredericton – Today, Auditor General, Kim MacPherson, presented the second volume of her annual report. In it, she uncovered an apparent bias toward industry in its stewardship of Crown forests. “We have known anecdotally that government after government has prioritized corporate interests in New Brunswick over sustainable management of our forests,” said David Coon, MLA for Fredericton South and Leader […]
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