Mr. Coon: Earlier this week, the federal government released the emissions inventory for Canada. New Brunswick’s emissions are included in that. Since 1990, our emissions from electricity generation have been going down in terms of carbon pollution because of the high price of oil that we have been experiencing. We have been phasing out oil to generate electricity, which is […]
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Mr. Coon: The Minister of Health intends to privatize the food and cleaning services in our hospitals. When his department looked at this two years ago, it concluded that having a multinational corporation provide those services would be more expensive than providing them through hospital staff. Yet, according to the Telegraph-Journal, the department has given 30 days’ notice of the […]
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Mr. Speaker, New Brunswickers want to recycle their waste, but our outmoded patchwork recycling system is failing us. The Halifax Regional Municipality is diverting 59% of all waste from homes, apartments, businesses and industry from their landfill through recycling. In Fredericton, that number is under 15 %, and if you live in an apartment you cannot participate at all. Six […]
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Mr. Coon: My question is for the Minister of Health. The minister is aiming to cut 10% of the budget of the Department of Health. This is supposed to be a strategic review, not an exercise in aiming for arbitrarily determined cuts. There are 50 000 New Brunswickers lacking a family doctor right now, yet the number of nurse practitioners […]
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