Methinks Blaine Higgs, David Coon and their blogging butt buddy Chucky Leblanc wish to forget many things as they stroll down Memory Lane before the Confidence Vote on Nov 2nd N'esy Pas?
Methinks Trump don't know where the Maritimes are as I serve my October
Surprise on my foes before the confidence vote on Nov 2nd 4 days before
the Yankee Mid Term Elections N'esy Pas?
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date:
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 06:38:18 -0400
Subject: YO Blaine Higgs Methinks even the
Green Meanies bragging or mindless computer
responses from corporate media
and your nasty buddy Duncan Matheson are far more
Methinks
Cardy and Lamrock know that I would put the entire email at
the bottom of
this blog N'esy Pas?
Need I say that what the nasty conservative Spin
Doctor Duncan
Matheson said out of the gate about Gallant freezing NB Power
rates
did not surprise me but it pissed me off anyway?
Shift's
Political Panel: Winning the confidence of the House
On Tuesday, PC
Leader Blaine Higgs delivered what sounded like a
throne speech for a Higgs
government. Meanwhile, one area where each
party is staking out a position is
in solving the paramedic shortage
issue.
Download Shift's
Political Panel: Winning the confidence of the House
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re Federal Court File No
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Date:
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Subject: Automatic reply: YO Blaine Higgs
Methinks Dominic Cardy and
Kelly Lamrock are clever enough to check out
missing CBC comments in
my blog but your French Leutenant Gauvin and the Song
and Dance man
Stewart are as dumb as posts just like YOU N'esy Pas?
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still Kim.MacPherson and her fellow Chartered
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From: "David Coon, Megan Mitton, Kevin Arseneau"
<david.coon@gnb.ca>
Date:
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 11:15:16 +0000
Subject: Legislative week in review, 27
October 2018 - La revue de la
semaine législative, 27 octobre 2018
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date:
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 04:59:31 -0400
Subject: YO Blaine Higgs Methinks Dominic
Cardy and Kelly Lamrock are clever enough to
check out missing CBC comments
in my blog but your French Leutenant Gauvin and the
Methinks Premier Gallant put his greedy liberal buddies
over the pork
barrel just before the Speech from the Throne so he could
remain their
leader N'esy Pas?
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From: Dominic Cardy <dcardy@gmail.com>
Date:
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:23:13 -0300
Subject: Re: Whereas Chucky Leblanc is going
down memory lane with Blaine Higgs tonight
Methinks Dominic Cardy and his
buddy Kelly Lamrock should remind their boss of a few things
N'esy
Pas?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
David,
Would
you like another butter tart?
Best wishes,
Dominic
Dominic
Cardy, Country Director
National Democratic Institute
Villa Pradhan,
Lazimpat
Kathmandu, Nepal
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From: Brian Gallant <briangallant10@gmail.com>
Date:
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 06:43:45 -0700
Subject: Merci / Thank you Re: Fwd: Whereas
Chucky Leblanc is going down memory lane
with Blaine Higgs tonight Methinks
Dominic Cardy and his buddy Kelly Lamrock should
remind their boss of a few
things N'esy Pas?
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
(Français
à suivre)
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please
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Thank
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From: "Coon, David (LEG)" <David.Coon@gnb.ca>
Date:
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:51:47 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Whereas Chucky
Leblanc is going down memory lane with
Blaine Higgs tonight Methinks Dominic
Cardy and his buddy Kelly Lamrock should
remind their boss of a few things
N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank
you for your email./ Merci pour votre courriel.
During the election
period, I can be contacted at
david.coon@greenpartynb.ca./ Pendant la
campagne électorale, vous
pouvez me contacter à david.coon@greenpartynb.ca
Best
Regards,/Meilleures salutations,
David Coon
MLA Fredericton South
& Leader of the Green Party/
Député de Fredericton Sud et chef du Parti
Vert
I met Ann McAllister breifly in 2015 in Saint John when I was stress testing everybody's ethics in front of Irving security and their cop pals when she asked if I ran for a seat in parliament. Then this year I noticed that she plays politcs as well
Ann McAllister at 35 minutes
Member, Provincial Council
Green Party of
New Brunswick
72 Elizabeth Parkway
Rothesay, NB
E2H 1E9
Phone:
506-847-4251
Email: amcallis@nb.sympatico.ca
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From: Carmen Budilean <carmen.budilean@greenpartynb.ca>
Date:
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 09:57:39 -0700
Subject: Notice Re: Chucky Leblanc and
everybody else knows the
Wannabe King Makers David Coon and Kris Austin
FAILED my ethics tests
of their character way too many times by Aug 24h. So
who are they to
pick Gallant or Higgs to be Premeir N'esy Pas?
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
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Merci
beaucoup pour votre courriel. Veuillez noter que je ne suis plus
au Parti
vert du NB. Ce compte sera suspendu sous peu. Si vous avez
besoin d'aide,
veuillez envoyer un courriel à Cathey Lyons à l'adresse
suivante : cathey.lyons@greenpartynb.ca
--
CARMEN BUDILEAN, Executive director |
Directrice exécutive Phone : (506) 447-8499 | Fax (506) 447-8489 Green
Party of New-Brunswick | Parti vert du Nouveau-Brunswick
What
other people say and do in the fat dumb ad happy welfare bum's
YouTube's
speak volumes sometimes even though Chucky and his "IT Guy"
Andre Faust are
the biggest bullshitter in Fat Fred City You both must
remember him N'esy Pas
Johnny N'ever Been Good" Bosnitch and Philip
Bryden ?
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From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)" <Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
Date:
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 02:47:44 +0000
Subject: RE: On Sept 20, 2018 I appeared
first on Rogers TV and spoke
of fixing the provincial debt and honouring the
contract with the
pensioners Correct?
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From: Carmen Budilean <carmen.budilean@greenpartynb.ca>
Date:
Thu, 4 Oct 2018 18:17:01 -0700
Subject: Notice Re: Attn Anastacia Merrigan I
had a conversation with
your client Megan Mitton's husband in May after she
spoke on CBC Now
she and her lawyer knows what everbody else knows
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
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Merci
beaucoup pour votre courriel. Veuillez noter que je ne suis plus
au Parti
vert du NB. Ce compte sera suspendu sous peu. Si vous avez
besoin d'aide,
veuillez envoyer un courriel à Cathey Lyons à l'adresse
suivante : cathey.lyons@greenpartynb.ca
CARMEN
BUDILEAN,
Executive director | Directrice exécutive
Phone : (506) 447-8499
| Fax (506) 447-8489
Green Party of New-Brunswick | Parti vert du
Nouveau-Brunswick
BTW did anybody but mean old me notice
that the Tory Pirate whimped
out of running in Fundy Royal in 2015 but he ran
in this provincial
election as an Independent?
Please Note: I am currently campaigning for the up-coming
New
Brunswick provincial election. This is NOT my campaign page. That
can
be found here. All views expressed here reflect a specific time
and
place. They may, or may not, reflect my current thoughts on a
given
subject.
My name is James Wilson and this is my political views
website where I
talk about the policies and parties I support as well as my
views on
current events.
I was born and raised in Albert County, New
Brunswick (best place in
the world if you haven't heard). I graduated from
Mount Allison
University and then set out on a cross-country adventure.
After
spending two years in Alberta I returned to New Brunswick. Currently
I
work in Moncton.
If I had to sum up my politics in three words they
would be:
Efficiency, Accountability, Prosperity. Efficiency because
taxpayers'
money should be treated with respect and not wasted.
Accountability
because it is the only sure way to protect our freedoms and
expose
corruption. Prosperity because the long-term betterment of the
lives
of Canadians should be the government's primary concern. Head over
to
Where I Stand to find out more.
I don't shy away from issues that I
support. I'm a big proponent of
government accountability and weakening
intellectual property laws. I
am also a firm supporter of Canada's
constitutional monarchy. I
welcome informed discussion and particularly like
smart people who
disagree with me.
Federal Politics
At the federal
level I support the Conservative Party of Canada and
the Pirate Party of
Canada.
I joined the Conservative Party after the 2015 Federal Election as
the
party began the process of examining it future and what it stands
for.
I am a small-c conservative from within the tory tradition. As such
I
consider the Conservative Party to be my
natural home. However, under
the leadership of Stephen Harper I grew
increasingly disenchanted with the
direction the party was taking.
With his departure I look forward to helping
build a strong,
principled alternative to the Liberals.
I joined the
Pirate Party shortly after the 2011 Federal Election due
to being completely
fed up with the options presented by the
mainstream parties. The party's main
focus is protecting privacy,
weakening intellectual property laws,
increasing
government accountability, and protecting net neutrality. I
have
served in a variety of leadership positions within the party which
has
been educational as well as a lot of fun. In 2015 I resigned
my
position and membership in the party to more effectively join in
the
conversation on the future direction of the Conservative
Party.
2012-2015 Political Council Member
2012-2013 Deputy
Leader
2013 Party Leader (Interim)
2014 Party Leader
Provincial
Politics
At the provincial level I support the People's Alliance of New
Brunswick.
I joined the People's Alliance in 2012 after reading about
their
policies on their website. As I mentioned above
government
accountability is very important to me and the People's Alliance
has
made it one of their core issues.
I served briefly on the PANB
riding association board for Albert
before I moved out west. I accepted an
invitation to serve on the
riding association board again in 2017 as its
secretary.
James
Wilson for the Albert Riding
September 25 at 12:28 AM ·
Well, the
election is over. Its been quite the ride. And with it
looking like a
minority government for New Brunswick the next few
years will be interesting.
I would like to congratulate Mike Holland
on his victory. You have been
handed a great responsibility and you'll
have the chance to show what you can
do. And the people of Albert
County will be watching to see if you can
deliver. So, no pressure or
anything. ;)
I would like to thanks my
fellow candidates Sharon Buchanan, Catherine
Black for Albert, Betty Weir NDP
for Albert County, and Moranda van
Geest for taking the time to run in this
election. It takes a great
deal of commitment to decide to run and I'm sure
you have mixed
emotions about tonight. Relief that its all over, maybe a
little
disappointment, or perhaps a bit of second guessing of decisions
made
on the campaign trail. From my vantage point you all ran
solid
positive campaigns. That is something to be proud of. I will leave
you
with the words of Star Trek's Jean Luc Picard:
As for myself, I was
offered the position of Chairman of the New
Brunswick branch of the
Monarchist League of Canada during the
election. In this position I will work
to educate New Brunswickers
about the role the monarchy plays in society and
increase appreciation
of said role. That any other projects should keep me
busy for a while.
Cap-Pele
council resolution against Peoples Alliance ignores democracy
October 3,
2018
The Communications Director of the Peoples Alliance is
calling
Cap-Pele councils latest attempt to interfere in the
provincial
political process as undemocratic and not the mandate of a
municipal
council to dictate which political party can represent
its
constituents.
Councillor Hector Doiron presented a resolution to
“warn” the other
parties not to work with the Peoples Alliance in the
Legislative
Assembly or face a court challenge. Hector, who is a well
known
Liberal, accuses the party of “wanting to attack the
fundamental
rights of francophones recognized by the Canadian Charter of
Rights
and Freedoms.” (Read the article here: https://www.acadienouvelle.com/actualites/2018/10/02/cap-pele-pret-a-combattre-en-cour-tout-pacte-avec-lalliance-des-gens/)
However,
in a statement communications director Wes Gullison says the
party has been
very clear that it is not revoking rights required by
law .
“The
People's Alliance from day one has said we respect bilingualism
and the
rights of both official language groups to receive service in
their language
of choice anywhere in the province. The party supports
the fact that
francophones and anglophones have the legal right to
educate their children
in their respective language and culture. In
instances where it makes sense,
we have called for sharing resources
such as transportation to school. As
most are aware, transportation
based on language has not been legally
designated as an acquired
right. The case was put to the New Brunswick Court
of Appeals, which
was withdrawn by government.
Secondly we have put
forward the idea of merging our two health
authorities into one bilingual
health administration which will serve
our hospitals and clinics in both
official languages. Some say
separate health administrations is a right and
will point to 16.2 of
the constitution, however, when this section was added
in the early
1990s it was made clear by the government at the time it was to
only
entrench our dual educational systems. No legal declaration has
been
sought or rendered in New Brunswick on whether the scope of
16.2
extends into administrating health care. The People's Alliance wish
to
make clear, one health administration would serve communities in
both
official languages. It is only common sense that community make
up
would dictate whether a hospital or clinic operates in french
or
english, while at the same time legally being required to
provide
service to the public in both languages.
Lastly, the paramedic
crisis has resulted in lack of ambulance
coverage in all areas of the
province due to a major shortage in
bilingual staffing. This is having
serious effects on all New
Brunswickers, in all regions regardless of which
language we speak. To
combat this serious gap in vital service, the party has
raised the
idea of utilizing language translation lines on all ambulances
to
assist our unilingual francophone and anglophone paramedics in order
to
fairly comply with “equality of service” required by our official
language
act.
Unfortunately, I believe the current misunderstanding of the
party's
policies has its roots by those who choose to not understand for
their
own political or personal gain. Be noted, the party has never
been
asked to sit for discussion by any of these groups raising concerns
as
of late, nor have we even been contacted via email or over the phone
to
talk about our policies. The party is open to everyone who wishes
to discuss
and work together.”
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From:
May Atkinson <carletonpcriding@gmail.com>
Date:
Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: RE the NB by election in Carleton
Here is my latest complaint
about the SEC, Banksters and Taxmen
To: David
Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
From:
David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date:
Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 12:09 PM
Subject: Fwd: RE the NB by election in Carleton
Here is my latest complaint
about the SEC, Banksters and Taxmen
To: carletonpcriding@gmail.com
No
more Old Harry extensions for Corridor Resources
Enough is enough,
coalition tells Petroleum Board
by Robert Devet
Oilspills and
other risks to the ecologically diverse but fragile Gulf
of St Lawrence worry
activists. They welcome a recently announced
public consultation. But they do
not want to see Corridor Resources
license to explore for oil at Old Harry
extended once again.
Oilspills and other risks to the ecologically
diverse but fragile Gulf
of St Lawrence worry activists. They welcome a
recently announced
public consultation. But they do not want to see Corridor
Resources
license to explore for oil at Old Harry extended once
again.
Simulations establish that an Old Harry oil spill could well
affect
Cape Breton's shores. Graphic by Corridor
Resources.
K'JIPUKTUK (Halifax) - Corridor Resources, the company
that holds the
rights to offshore oil exploration in the Newfoundland parts
of the
Gulf of St. Lawrence, is not having much luck lately.
The
regulatory Canada - Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum
Board
(C-NLOPB) has told the company that more consultations will
occur before
Corridor Resources gets to drill its exploratory well at
Old
Harry.
The timing is bad for the junior oil and gas company.
Corridor's
exploration license is about to expire. And to make things worse,
it
has been unable to find a partner to financially support its
venture.
So it's stalling for time, observers believe. Hidden in a
press
release announcing Corridor's second quarter financial results is
a
one-sentence statement that it is requesting more time to execute on
its
license given the requirement to complete additional consultation.
For
Sylvain Archambault, spokesperson for the St Lawrence Coalition,
enough is
enough. Corridor already received two such extensions,
adding three years to
the lifespan of its license.
The inter-provincial St Lawrence Coalition
wants a moratorium on any
oil and gas activities until risks to the rich but
fragile ecology of
the Gulf are fully understood.
"These are the rules
of the game," Archambault told the Halifax Media
Co-op. "Other companies play
by the rules and sometimes they win and
sometimes they lose. That is how it
works, that is life."
Archambault points to Shoal Point Energy, a company
that late last
year lost its license to frack for oil in western Newfoundland
because
it ran out of time. It also lost its $1-million deposit.
He
believes that Corridor itself is to blame for many of the delays
in
establishing a regulatory regime for drilling in the Newfoundland
parts
of the Gulf.
Corridor was very slow coming out of the gates. Later on, a
planned
independent review was cancelled when Corridor asked for yet
another
extension in 2011, Archambault explained.
In a letter to the
C-NLOPB the St Lawrence Coalition welcomes the
additional consultations, but
it urges the Board to reject Corridor's
request for an extension.
The
letter points out that Corridor has the option of filing a
$1-million
guarantee to obtain an extension until early 2017. So why
not go that route,
the Coalition asks.
"I think Corridor wants more time because they need a
major partner,
but they can't find a partner. So any time they can buy is
good for
them," said Archambault.
"They are trying to find money, they
were very clear in their recent
financial report that they need a partner in
order to drill," he said.
Corridor is working with "acquisition and
divestiture experts" at
Macquarie Tristone to find such a partner.
The
C-NLOPB has not yet received the Corridor request for an
extension,
spokesperson Sean Kelly told the Halifax Media Co-op.
Kelly confirmed
that further consultations are indeed being planned
for by the C-NLOPB.
"
"The board is committed to doing an extensive public consultation
on
the Old Harry environmental assessment. This goes back to a request
by
the former [federal] minister [Kent, of Environment Canada] to
our
former Chair," Kelly said.
"That includes consultation with
aboriginal groups as well," Kelly
added. Last month a coalition of Innu,
Maliseet and Mi'gmaq Nations
bordering the Gulf of St. Lawrence demanded a
12-year moratorium on
oil exploration and development.
Archambault
called the announcement of a public consultation excellent news.
But he
would like to see more details.
"We have no idea what the consultations
will look like. We want a
truly independent and credible consultation, an
extensive public
consultation across all affected provinces," he
said.
Corridor Resources did not respond to our request for
information.
See also:
Blue whale, black oil and the race for the
Gulf
Newfoundland Petroleum Board gives go ahead to oil and gas
exploration
in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Hunt for oil in the Gulf of
St. Lawrence intensifies
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David
Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 12:59:59 -0300
> Subject: I called you all and tried
to explain how I can help with
> your concerns I repeat just say my
name
> To: action@ecologyaction.ca,
gretchenf@sierraclub.ca,
tracy
> <tracy@jatam.org>, dgiroux@tlb.sympatico.ca,
mjgorman@ns.sympatico.ca
>
Cc: nmiller <nmiller@corridor.ca>,
"wally.stiles@gnb.ca"
>
<wally.stiles@gnb.ca>
>
>
If nothing else listen to this and get pissed off lIke mean old me. At
>
least that emotion is honest.
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/Corridor1
>
>
Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
>
> http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/in-the-news
>
>
http://atlantic.sierraclub.ca/en/media/release/coalition-calls-leaders-act-immediately-stop-oil-and-gas-exploration-gulf-st-lawrence
>
>
COALITION CALLS ON LEADERS TO ACT IMMEDIATELY TO STOP OIL AND GAS
>
EXPLORATION IN GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE
> For Immediate Release - October 4,
2010
> PICTOU, NS – Today’s decision by the Canada Newfoundland and
Labrador
> Offshore Petroleum Board (CNLOPB) to allow seismic blasting in
the
> Gulf of St. Lawrence was met with shock and concern by a
coalition
> calling for a moratorium on oil and gas development in the
Gulf of St.
> Lawrence. The coalition - made of aboriginal, fishing,
and
> environmental organizations - is calling on municipal,
provincial,
> federal, and aboriginal leaders to act swiftly to halt the
testing.
>
> “With this decision, the CNLOPB has approved an
activity that could
> damage this entire precious ecosystem,” according to
Mary Gorman of
> the Save Our Seas and Shores, “We want this decision
reversed
> immediately, and action taken to allow jurisdictions bordering
on the
> Gulf to have a say in its future.”
>
> “Seismic
testing could start in the next 48 hours, potentially
> damaging marine
mammals like blue whales, and disrupting fish and
> fisheries. This
approval has given oil and gas as a toehold in the
> Gulf that could lead
to full scale drilling,” according to Danielle
> Giroux of the. “Fishermen
I work for need more say over protecting the
> Gulf. We want the CNLOPB’s
decision reversed immediately.”
>
> “An oil spill in the Gulf of St.
Lawrence would impact fish stocks and
> coastal communities in Quebec,
PEI, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and
> Newfoundland. Moreover, the
national importance of this ecosystem must
> be upheld.” says Gretchen
Fitzgerald, of the Sierra Club Canada. “
> Federal laws to protect
endangered species and fish habitat recognize
> the importance of
protecting our shared biodiversity and resources.
> This decision is not
reflecting this shared responsibility or concerns
> expressed by groups
around the Gulf.”
>
> -30-
>
> For more information,
please contact:
>
> Mary Gorman, Save our Seas and Shores,
>
902-926-2128/mjgorman@ns.sympatico.ca
>
>
Danielle Giroux (Francais), Attention Fragile (Magdalen Islands)
>
418-969-9440/dgiroux@tlb.sympatico.ca
>
>
Gretchen Fitzgerald, Director, Sierra Club Atlantic, 902-444-3113/
> gretchenf@sierraclub.ca
>
>
Mark Butler, Policy Director, Ecology Action Centre,
> 902-429-5287/action@ecologyaction.ca
>
Participating in the Sussex-Fundy-St. Martins meet the candidates
event, hosted by the Chamber of Commerce, are Progressive Conservative candidate
Bruce Northrup; Fred Harrison of the Green party; Liberal Ian Smyth; Peoples
Alliance candidate Jim Bedford and David Amos running as an Independent. Photo: Tammy Scott-Wallace/Telegraph-Journal
SUSSEX • The rate in which families are leaving the province and the pain
that causes the economy needs to be a primary focus in the Sussex-Fundy-St.
Martins riding this election, said Progressive Conservative candidate Bruce
Northrup.
And to him, closing the door to the development of the province’s natural
resources is the main contributor to the problem of out-migration.
Differing political positions were represented during a meet the candidates
event in the riding Wednesday night.
“Why are they going west?” Northrup asked, answering his own question. “To
work in oil fields, to work in natural gas.”
Those who move away for work are often lost forever as they settle down and
make their family there, he added. Northrup has been staunchly opposed to the
moratorium on hydraulic fracturing Brian Gallant’s Liberal put in place
following the last provincial election.
“We have to develop our natural gas and natural resources to keep them here.
They’re exiting by the hundreds,” Northrup said.
Liberal candidate Ian Smyth, however, sees it differently.
He believes there’s lots of work, but not the right “attitudes.”
He talked about recent job interviews he was conducting on his farm where he
was offering a $13 an hour job. The person he was supposed to interview didn’t
bother to show up or call, and that happened five times, Smyth said.
“There’s not a shortage of work. There’s all kinds of work,” he said, “but
attitudes have to change.”
People have the right to leave the province for better work opportunities, he
added.
“It’s all about choices – it’s a free country,” said the father of four young
children.
As someone who left his community of St. Martins where he was fire chief for
22 years to go to Alberta, Peoples Alliance candidate Bedford said, he knows how
difficult it is to uproot. The low wages he was earning picking rocks, however
wasn’t near enough. He sent six resumes to Alberta companies, and he received
calls for work from all six of them.
He lived there with his family for 10 years.
“People are payments away from losing their homes,” Bedford said. “We’re
fooling ourselves when we say how great we are. Look around your neighbourhood,
look around this room.”
Dollar figures on what the sweet spot should be for an adequate provincial
minimum wage fluctuated among parties when the question came up.
Independent candidate David Amos, who ran federally the last time around,
says people are not earning what they need to survive. He believes $18 an hour
is a fair paycheque.
“Why can’t the working man earn what the old man gets?” he said, referring to
his old age pension. He said often the working person still has a family to
raise at home.
But an appropriate minimum wage is not only about another couple bucks for
the worker, Bedford pointed out.
“It’s a fine balancing act,” the Sussex businessman said. A $15 minimum wage,
he said, pushes closer to $35 an hour for the employer who has to contribute
more for employment insurance and Canada Pension Plan for the worker.
A small crowd of voters attended the Sussex and District
Chamber of Commerce event to meet the candidates of Sussex-Fundy-St. Martins on
Wednesday night in Sussex Corner.
Photo: Tammy Scott-Wallace/Telegraph-Journal
That could mean fewer businesses, and in turn fewer jobs.
“You have to look at what the full impact will be,” Bedford said.
Minimum wage in New Brunswick is currently $11.25 an hour, which is similar
to the other Maritime provinces.
But the Liberals are committing as part of their election platform to
increasing it to $14 an hour gradually, Smyth said.
“People need $14 to survive,” he said.
The Green party wants to do even better than that, said candidate Fred
Harrison, by raising the amount $1 a year until it reaches $15.25.
Northrup said the Tories are not committing to an increase.
Amos, Bedford and Northrup all took aim at the controversial carbon tax the
Liberals have committed to.
“There’s no disputing climate change,” Amos said. “Mother Nature is going to
do what she wants to do. New taxation isn’t going to fix it.”
Bedford also believes it should be eliminated, as should taxes on used
vehicles. There should also be a major drop in small business tax, he said.
The Progressive Conservative platform has a sharp focus on reducing taxes,
Northrup said.
“My favourite three words in our platform is ‘no more taxes’,” he said. “We
want to put more money in your pockets.
“At the end of the day we’re totally, totally taxed out.”
It was a mild, small crowd of about 25 people that gathered to meet the
candidates hosted by the Sussex and District Chamber of Commerce in Sussex
Corner.
The Chamber held a similar event in early August, before the writ was
dropped.
Wednesday evening’s event took place at the same time a televised debate
among the provincial party leaders was happening.
Fracking, which is often a hot topic in the Sussex region with the business
community supporting it, received varying opinions during the panel
discussion.
Amos is against fracking.
“If there’s nothing in it for all of us, why bother?” he said, referring to
the companies that have more to benefit than New Brunswickers with its
inadequate royalty structure.
But Northup believes there’s a lot of benefit for New Brunswickers to use its
own natural resources, from salt mined in Picadilly, to natural gas.
In his opinion, too much is being brought into the province from outside.
“We need to develop our own resources to benefit ourselves,” he said. People
in the riding need to work, especially since the potash mine in the riding
closed in 2016, taking hundreds of jobs with it.
Bedford cannot reasonably expect there not to be hiccups along the way with
any new developments, but feels “the benefits are going to outweigh the
risks.”
He too believes “we need to depend on ourselves. We need to get people
working.”
Harrison said potential risks need to be fully understood, but generally
speaking he doesn’t oppose natural resource development.
“I would still want to err on the side of the environment and encourage and
develop more natural resources that are sustainable,” the artist said.
Mr Higgs and Dominic Cardy are trying to learn how to
herd cats and
even the clowns are laughing at the
nonsense
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Gallant,
Premier Brian (PO/CPM)" <Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
Date:
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 05:35:32 +0000
Subject: RE: Mr Higgs and Dominic Cardy are
trying to learn how to
herd cats and even the clowns are laughing at the
nonsense
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank
you for writing to the Premier of New Brunswick. Please be
assured that
your email will be reviewed.
If this is a media request, please forward
your email to
media-medias@gnb.camedia-medias@gnb.ca
>. Thank
you!
*************************************
Nous vous
remercions d’avoir communiqué avec le premier ministre du
Nouveau-Brunswick.
Soyez assuré(e) que votre courriel sera examiné.
Si ceci est une demande
médiatique, prière de la transmettre
à
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Tuesday, 28
August 2018
For people who haven't seen the interview I made with P.C.
Leader
Blaine Higgs....
“I have to remind MLA Kenny that it was the former Liberal that cut the
hourly pay for home support care workers by $2.” Tony Huntjens in a
letter to editor in the Gleaner.
When will these idiots stop living in 90s and realize that 21st century is upon us. What kind of drug he is on?
John Hamm a man of great integrity resigned as a Premier of Nova Scotia.
We have unscrupulous Bernard Lord who is still Premier. There is
something wrong with us NBers to tolerate this man as our Premier
Here is the real reason Hamm quit it is at the very bottom of this
particular blog. This email is also why the dudes in Fredericton are so
nervous these days. Simply put I'm back. I can only wonder how long this
Blog will remain before Chucky Leblanc deletes it in order to cover up
the public corruption he secretly supports.
I had to respond to this. Brian Gaudet should have read my last
email before bouncing it back to me with his insults. I was already
gone. At least this Frenchman, sounds more like a proper Maritimer. Yet
if he was going to spout off to me he should have been man enough to say
it front of the rest of you too. Let us all see if he has truly Billy
Gates blocking me after trying to pick a fight with me. Yahoo will tell
the tale on that. That said, I do admire that he defends his wife's name
and is willing to fight about it even if he does not understand the
issues. That is honourable but dumb. I was confused that the email
address said two mech so I suspect that he may be a mechanic just like
me and not any sort of lawyer or newsman either. I like that as well.
It seems he has been raised on the four F's just like me. Only
thing is I ain't hiding behind an electronic mask like he said. If he
had bothered to read I had even inserted my phone number. I will be
coming to Sackville very soon but by then your protests will likely be
over and I would be met with the indifference that I was faced with last
year. So I will bother you all no more even though I will be forwarding
and blogging this email in many other places. It is the same methods
that the locked out people employed to bring CBC to the table. they have
no right to put down my actions against them. I do not wish to speak to
the CBC or the employees about a lawsuit I am filing against the Crown
because of their actions against me. That would be kinda dumb even for a
Maritimer don't you think? I would rather have spoken to pissed off
people CBC had locked out of work. It made far more sense to me.
I have many friends in the Sackville area. Perhaps Frenchy should ask
around about me to some mechanics he may know to see if most folks who
know me well think me to be a liar. He should not rely on CBC to find
out the truth about me. To offset any confrontations from people he did
not know, Frenchy should have told his wife not to use his email
address. If he did not want to be bothered by people she and her other
CBC buddies had ignored last year during the last federal election he
should have told me out of the gate that he was not his wife. She could
have gotten her own hotmail account like my eleven year old in Amherst
just did. Instead she used her husband's email to tell the world on the
internet that she was actively protesting being out of work? She was
soliticiting our support for her plight but in the next electronic
breath her husband proves that they care about nobody else? CBC and all
of its reporters are the bullshitters in this matter not me. They are
self centered greedy bastards also.
CBC does have a mandate to
give all people running for a seat in Parliament equal time not just the
people the reporters want to win. That is the law and their mandate as a
Crown Corp. In case you are reading this Brian Gaudet talk tough all
you wish. I don't scare easy because I am too dumb to know fear. Ask the
Secret Service who tried to take me away to Cuba over two years ago or
the jailers who threw me in the hole last year because I was pretty
pissed off if I am a chickenshit or not. Because I display no fear
people label me as crazy in order to make themselves feel better about
their own cowardice. I have walked the walk for far too long to be
frightened by anyone now. I live each day as my last. Only integrity
surprises me now. It is a rare thing to find combined with age and
power.
If you don't believe me or think I am harrassing you in
any way why not call the RCMP or sue me French?. Bring along this email
to prove how I have offended you. I will love to argue the Crown about
it in court. I will bring along what I served upon the CBC in Saint John
while I was running for Parliament last year. It should make for an
interesting argument that CBC will not report. Their lawyers have not
answered me yet but many others have and know tha CBC got my material
too. It appears that i must sue to get an answer as to why the CBC
ignored its mandate.
Frenchy I would prefer to meet your
lawyer face to face in court in a civil lawsuit rather than duke it out
on the street with you and inspire another criminal matter. Besides I
have too much to lose even if I won such a senseless thing in court or
in the street. You are another ordinary asshole like me. There is no
need to battle with you. I am getting too old for such nonsense now but I
will certainly defend myself from anyone. If you wish to pursue the
matter be forewarned that I don't fight fair anymore. If perchance I
lose I am very big on getting even. My battles are never over until that
happens. What I teach my son also holds true for me. I tell him to
never back down from anyone because it is too expensivee to one's own
pride and you will have to run from bullies your whole life. In truth a
brawl proves nothing at all except how dumb we can be. Nevertheless like
hockey fighting can be a great sport sometimes. Confused? Me too. what
do you teach your son Frenchy?
Like you Frenchy I prefer face to
face confrontations but only in front of many witnesses these days so
that nobody can accuse me of saying or doing anything wrong. If you wish
to fight, call the cops first and announce your intentions then all
that I ask of you is that you throw the first swing so that my actions
will be in defence. Is that OK with you Frenchy??????
You are
right about one thing though. Nobody cares. However it is not stupid of
me to piss people off. It is merely one of those things I do that nobody
seems to appreciate. It works like a charm to get others to prove to me
that they are assholes. The big difference between an asshole like me
and an asshole like you is that I care about what happens to others. You
don't. If you disagree why not help another Maritimer by the name of
Byron Prior. He needs all the help he can get. I don't. You don't even
have to Google him. Read the portion of his his web site that was at the
bottom of the second email I sent to you today. If you have any heart
in you at all pick up the phone and call him to see if he is for real
for yourself. I did the best I could to help him with his litigation
against Billy Matthews and all his Newfy buddies while your wife's buddy
Ian Hannamansing who is from Sackville only called Byron a liar while
he was doing his big special in Newfoundland about justice last year.
If my memory of what Byron said about the show that night is
correct, your wife's fellow CBC workers carefully edited Byron from any
of their tapes shown on TV while the Attorney General Tommy Marshall's
son sat right by his side and made it on TV. In my opinion the CBC dudes
in Newfoundland should all be fired ASAP for that reason alone. That
fact has nothing to do with me and my concerns whatsoever. All Canadians
were denied the opportunity to hear what Byron Prior had to say about
how justice is being served in the Maritimes. It should make no
difference at all whether or not Hannamansing thought of Byron a lair.
We all had the right to hear what he had to say after CBC had invited
the public they work for to speak on TV. How else can we decide the
truth about anything if we do not hear from all sides? This is a
Democracy isn't it is free speech a myth on public TV? CBC does not have
the right to to be judge and jury simply because they have the ability
to edit tapes.
Get it Frenchy???????????
Here is my
phone number again Frenchy 506 434 1379 if you wish to ask me any
questions. I will not bother to look up yours. I do not care about you
think anymore if you don't wish to speak man to man. I will do as you
requested and merely leave you all alone just like I said in the last
email I ever intended to send to any of the CBC crowd. Now that they are
comfortably back at work editing the truth for Paul Martin's benefit
not ours, I know it would be fruitless to approach them anymore.
Before you give me a call Frenchy, perhaps you should review email
that you bounced back to me. For your education here is my face as well
and an article about me in a local paper then ask yourself why the CBC
reporters ignored an interesting little circus.
I ain't hiding
and I ain't a lair. I am just another Maritime asshole just like you
Frenchy. You should understand me as being a simple, sincere and serious
asshole even if you do not believe that I am a man with some pretty
serious beefs against the corrupt justice system and the CBC that helps
it in its malice towards us all. It is late and my rambling rant is
over. As I wrote this I kept remmbering my encounters with the Frenchy
from the far side of my hometown of Dorchester last year. His name is
Charles LeBlanc. Man that bastard is full of hot air. I had to get this
off my chest. I will sleep better with you dismissed from my mind too.
Good luck with your own conscience from now on. Say Hey to Chucky
Leblanc for me will ya> Like you he is blocking my emails after
sending me a flood of them last year. I will lay odds your wife knows of
him. The Maritimes ain't that big a place and he is quite a bragger.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "McKnight, Gisele" McKnight.Gisele@kingscorecord.com
> > > > To: lcampenella@ledger.com
> > > > Cc:motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:53 PM
> > > > Subject: David Amos
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Hello Lisa,
> > > > > David Amos asked me to contact you. I met him last June after he
> > became
> > > an
> > > > > independent (not representing any political party) candidate in our
> > > > federal
> > > > > election that was held June 28.
> > > > >
> > > > > He was a candidate in our constituency of Fundy (now called
> > > Fundy-Royal).
> > > > I
> > > > > wrote a profile story about him, as I did all other candidates. That
> > > story
> > > > > appeared in the Kings County Record June 22. A second story, written
> > by
> > > > one
> > > > > of my reporters, appeared on the same date, which was a report on
> the
> > > > > candidates' debate held June 18.
> > > > >
> > > > > As I recall David Amos came last of four candidates in the election.
> > The
> > > > > winner got 14,997 votes, while Amos got 358.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have attached the two stories that appeared, as well as a photo
> > taken
> > > by
> > > > > reporter Erin Hatfield during the debate. I couldn't find the photo
> > that
> > > > > ran, but this one is very similar.
> > > > >
> > > > > Gisele McKnight
> > > > > editor A1-debate A1-amos,David for MP 24.doc debate
2.JPG
> > > > > Kings County Record
> > > > > Sussex, New Brunswick
> > > > > Canada
> > > > > 506-433-1070
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd
By Erin Hatfield
"If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it."
The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers
at the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to
watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if
unofficial, theme song for the debate.
The crowd of over
200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as they chose their
seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn. Supporters of
Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue chairs on the
right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent left. There
were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty, mixed
throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards the
back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat.
The debate was moderated by Leo Melanson of CJCW Radio and was
organized by the Sussex Valley Jaycees. Candidates wereasked a barrage
of questions bypanelists Gisele McKnight of the Kings County Record and
Lisa Spencer of CJCW.
Staying true to party platforms for
the most part, candidates responded to questions about the gun registry,
same sex marriage, the exodus of young people from the Maritimes and
regulated gas prices. Herron and Moore were clear competitors,constantly
challenging each other on their answers and criticizing eachothers’
party leaders. Hanratty flew under the radar, giving short, concise
responses to the questions while Amos provided some food for thought and
a bit of comic relief with quirky answers. "I was raised with a gun,"
Amos said in response to the question of thenational gun registry.
"Nobody's getting mine and I'm not paying 10 cents for it."
Herron, a Progressive Conservative MP turned Liberal, veered from his
party'splatform with regard to gun control. "It was ill advised but well
intentioned," Herron said. "No matter what side of the house I am on,
I'm voting against it." Pat Hanratty agreed there were better places for
the gun registry dollars to be spent.Recreational hunters shouldn't
have been penalized by this gun registry," he said.
The
gun registry issues provoked the tempers of Herron and Moore. At one
point Herron got out of his seat and threw a piece of paper in front of
Moore. "Read that," Herron said to Moore, referring to the voting record
of Conservative Party leader Steven Harper. According to Herron, Harper
voted in favour of the registry on the first and second readings of the
bill in 1995. "He voted against it when it counted, at final count,"
Moore said. "We needa government with courage to register sex offenders
rather than register the property of law abiding citizens."
The crowd was vocal throughout the evening, with white haired men and
women heckling from the Conservative side. "Shut up John," one woman
yelled. "How can you talk about selling out?" a man yelled whenHerron
spoke about his fear that the Conservatives are selling farmers out.
Although the Liberal side was less vocal, Kings East MLA Leroy
Armstrong weighed in at one point. "You’re out of touch," Armstrong
yelled to Moore from the crowd when the debate turned to the cost of
post-secondary education. Later in the evening Amos challenged Armstrong
to a public debate of their own. "Talk is cheap. Any time, anyplace,"
Armstrong responded.
As the crowd made its way out of the
building following the debate, candidates worked the room. They shook
hands with well-wishers and fielded questions from spectators-all part
of the decision-making process for the June 28 vote.
Cutline – David Amos, independent candidate in Fundy, with some of his favourite possessions—motorcycles.
McKnight/KCR
The Unconventional Candidate
David Amos Isn’t Campaigning For Your Vote, But….
By Gisele McKnight
FUNDY—He
has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his wallet, a
beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone that rings
to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos.
The
independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife and
two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from running
for office in Canada.
One has only to be at least 18, a Canadian citizen and not be in jail to meet Elections Canada requirements.
When it came time to launch his political crusade, Amos chose his favourite place to do so—Fundy.
Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his dissatisfaction with politicians.
"I’ve
become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he said.
"The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
The
journey that eventually led Amos to politics began in Sussex in 1987. He
woke up one morning disillusioned with life and decided he needed to
change his life.
"I lost my faith in mankind," he said. "People go through that sometimes in midlife."
So
Amos, who’d lived in Sussex since 1973, closed his Four Corners
motorcycle shop, paid his bills and hit the road with Annie, his 1952
Panhead motorcycle.
"Annie and I rode around for awhile (three
years, to be exact) experiencing the milk of human kindness," he said.
"This is how you renew your faith in mankind – you help anyone you can,
you never ask for anything, but you take what they offer."
For those three years, they offered food, a place to sleep, odd jobs and conversation all over North America.
Since
he and Annie stopped wandering, he has married, fathered a son and a
daughter and become a house-husband – Mr. Mom, as he calls himself.
He
also describes himself in far more colourful terms—a motorcyclist
rather than a biker, a "fun-loving, free-thinking, pig-headed
individual," a "pissed-off Maritimer" rather than an activist, a proud
Canadian and a "wild colonial boy."
Ironically, the man who is running for office has never voted in his life.
"But
I have no right to criticize unless I offer my name," he said. "It’s
alright to bitch in the kitchen, but can you walk the walk?"
Amos has no intention of actively campaigning.
"I
didn’t appreciate it when they (politicians) pounded on my door
interrupting my dinner," he said. "If people are interested, they can
call me. I’m not going to drive my opinions down their throats."
And he has no campaign budget, nor does he want one.
"I
won’t take any donations," he said. "Just try to give me some. It’s not
about money. It goes against what I’m fighting about."
What he’s
fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood, the
exploitation of the Maritimes’ gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to name a
few.
"The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs
– fishing, farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he
said. "I’m death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say
chuck it (NAFTA) out the window.
NAFTA is the North American Free
Trade Agreement which allows an easier flow of goods between Canada,
the United States and Mexico.
Amos disagrees with the idea that a vote for him is a wasted vote.
"There
are no wasted votes," he said. "I want people like me, especially young
people, to pay attention and exercise their right. Don’t necessarily
vote for me, but vote."
Although…if you’re going to vote anyway, Amos would be happy to have your X by his name.
"I want people to go into that voting booth, see my name, laugh and say, ‘what the hell.’"
Brian Gaudet twomech@nb.sympatico.ca wrote:
From: "Brian Gaudet" twomech@nb.sympatico.ca
To: "David Amos" motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: This is who I am Bobby Baby. Read it and weep.
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 21:41:47 -0300
Listen,
asshole.......This is not Suzanne's email it is her husband. I
certainly don't care for the remarks that you are making about her.
Having said that, I asked you once politely to remove us from your list.
I will have blocked you by now, so I will not have to put up with your
e-mails or bullshit any longer...................But I am not one for
emails anyway.........I prefer to talk face to face............So you
can't hide behind this electronic mask.............Do You get
it???????????? I would not hide from a pathetic waste of oxygen such as
you antway. People just don't
care............Understand............No body cares about you and your
stupidity..................Go AWAY...........
To put it simply in answer to your dumb request Mr. Sharpe. My
answer is HELL NO. That is a nice as I can put it. I just called Katie
Nicholson and introduced myself. I will it leave you to wonder whom I
will call next. Your clue is that you sent them greetings as a
Locked-Out brother in sunny St. Johns.
To elaborate, I must
say that I definitely will not go away. Look how you people act since
you have been locked out of your jobs. You behave far worse tha I. In
fact I may be coming to Newfoundland very soon to copy the material in
the dockets of Newfoundland Supreme Court in the Billy Matthews versus
Byron Prior matter as it pertains to me me. I need hard copy before I
sue the CBC and the Crown. My question right now is hey Bobby Baby why
don't I sue you too? Maybe I will come around and watch your people do
their song and dance for their job.
Perhaps you should try meeting me
toe to toe and looking me in the eye if you want to meet a simple
sincere and very serious man and then dare me to. I will be real easy to
pick out. I am the hairy bastard in the Kilt once worn by a good friend
of mine Ol Tom. He is one of the last of the Ladies from Hell. I wear
it with his blessings. too many of his friends fought and died many
years ago so that shit like this should not happen in our own
nativeland. Even the Yankee bastard I call Deputy dog has met Ol Tom
long before I dated the Yankee's sister. You bear the same first name as
Deputy Dog Bobby Baby and you just forwarded all them your dumb little
email that jerked this mangey old dog's chain bigtime. Need I say that
my wife did not like receiving your response? She has warned me not to
send out her email address anymore. Like her I do not listen real good
sometimes but I did accomadate her on her birthday at least.
Bobby Baby if you want someone's shoulder to cry on give the lady
Liza Frulla a call. She is a former sister of yours correct? I think she
may have some job security issues when there is finally a federal
election called. The sooner the better for me and the NDP. Frulla did
not answer me so I must remain a man of my word and pass this email on
as I promised her I would. Quite honestly I did not expect her to answer
me. Everybody knows that she does whatever Paul Martin and the warroom
dudes within PCO/PMO offices tell her to do. I needed the proof of
contact thats all because I was banking on the fact the warroom will
tell her to ignore me. I was just playing her like a fiddlewhile fishing
for response from yo sos like you and hopefully an ehtical person or
two. Paul Dugas who likes to play the fiddle in the town where I was
born should certainly get my joke. On the one year anniversary of
Ashcroft visiting Canada and Wayne Easter's office talking to me, he
joined a forum to yap about violins. I found the coincidence strangely
comical. If Paul Dugas or anyone within the CBC had elected to report my
doings on that day instead of talking about fiddlin etc, we would all
be better off right now. The CBC recived received my material July 16th
2002, the very same day Argeo P. Cellucci did. That was long before the
War on Iraq had started. Have your conscience dwell on that sad fact for
a minute or two before you answer a lot of ghosts in your Heaven or
Hell someday. As you can see I study people a bit and I already have a
pretty good idea who will be naughty and who may be nice. I learned long
ago cops, lawyers, bankers, priests and newsmen never are. So I attack
them out of the gate but only in an ethical fashion byway of the written
word and carefully worded phone calls. Newsmen should know that the
word is mightier than the sword. You make your living by it you should
die by it as well. Please fall on it ASAP or use it to hang the rest of
the corrupt bastards. How is that for a challenge?
Furthermore I like to do everything in threes just like they purportly
do in Heaven and Hell. Now that Suzanne Gaudet, Paul Dugas from the town
where I was born and you the Newfy Bobby Baby have responded to me you
have sealed the fate of the Crown Corp of CBC for me. I need no more
responses from the likes of you. Why spoil my own fun? I will likely not
tell you anymore about what I am up to after I send the next email and
print both of them as evidence to use in Federal Court. I will sue the
Minister who oversees your conduct and none of you can ever say that you
did not know the truth of my concerns before I did. The CRTC can go to
Hell for all I care. Starting with their crooked little Minister many of
the public servants under her supervision need to be replaced if the
public trust in your profession is ever going to be upheld.
Even though the unethical people at CBC, CTV and all other media
pretend to have no understanding of what I mean, a lot of Maritimers
understand me quite well already. Blogging is truly the only way to go
these days. Watch out. Ordinary folks will replace you in a New York
minute. Why else has CBC locked you out I might ask? It appears to me
that only the Frenchmen has job security EH? Why do you think that is?
Better yet look how quick Bloggers embarrassed Dan Rather before you
call me a dreamer. That said look to find the text of this email in many
Blogs in the near future and you can study the work of a very fierce
political animal. All you should have to do is Google your own name or
email address. Turn about is fair play. EH? If you don't like please sue
me just like Billy Matthews did with Byron Prior. Google that name some
time then tell me all is well in Newfoundland.
It is my
fellow Maritimers that I want pissed off at the CBC etc. and all the
corrupt politicians they have chosen to support. I do not give two hoots
about you as a man Bobby Baby. To me you are just a dumb little pawn in
a big big game. I am taking on the Masters of War alone despite the
laughter from the likes of you. IF you want some insight in to my
character have Rudyard Kipling explain my nature to you within his
wonderful poem called IF. I take his advice not your. thus you have the
reason behind my simple answer of NO. What I would prefer though Newfy
is for you to call me a liar in a public forum. I dare ya. You do not
seem all that sharp to me so I will warn you I was raised to the F's of
the Maritimes that your former Premier explained to the Yankees years
ago. I found it funny the chickenshit named only three. So much for
being politically correct EH? He came close but no cigar. Castro will
get my joke someday soon. Here is me phone number 506 434-1379. Use it
Newfy if you dare to use a phone with a caller ID. Otherwise do not
bother at all. just find me in the Blogs.
On a personal
note Bill, I liked your voicemail to me. You and I should have a long
talk sometime. I think it would be best to do in public in front of many
witnesses who have no idea what we are talking about. I am up against
some pretty bad acting Feds right now. I am sorry to say that I cannot
afford to trust anyone. A very busy Bar or Diner where ordinary folk
like me hang out are my favorite haunts. I know of a few down your way.
Maybe I will give ya call when I am heading to your town. Better yet for
the benefit of your party why not come see me ASAP? I ain't hard to
find ask the RCMP. They have been watching me like a hawk.
Blaine Higgs greets Sussex-Fundy-St.Martins voters at PC candidate
Bruce Northrup's headquarters in Sussex on Monday. Photo: Tammy Scott-Wallace/Telegraph-Journal
SUSSEX • In the region where residents and business leaders have been most
vocal in their ask for a green light for natural gas development, Blaine Higgs
says their wish could be granted this fall.
The Progressive Conservative leader not only renewed his pledge to lift the
moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in communities that want it, but during his
campaign stop to Sussex on Monday, he said he will not waste time in making the
move if he’s elected.
“How fast would we see the natural gas industry get back to work in this
area? As fast as Steve Moran can get here,” Higgs responded, referring to the
president and CEO of Corridor Resources who says he has a $70-million, potential
program to drill new wells sitting in limbo because of the ban.
Regions that don’t want fracking activity won’t be forced to accept it, Higgs
said, but an area like Sussex that’s been home to Corridor Resources and it’s
natural gas activity for over 30 years should not miss out on the economic
opportunity it foresees.
Corridor has about 30 wells producing gas in the Sussex area.
In late April, Higgs – for the first time – voiced his commitment to business
leaders in Sussex to lift the moratorium if elected premier. He was responding
to a nearly year-long rally by business owners in the Sussex area who felt
restoring natural gas development was essential to allowing businesses impacted
by the January 2016 mine closure to regain economic strength.
“Let people be masters of their own destiny,” Higgs said of a regional
approach to lifting the ban. “There is experience in this region.”
Bruce Northrup is the Tory MLA for the Sussex-Fundy-St.Martins riding and
said the community that has had a long, comfortable relationship with Corridor,
has been stunted by the moratorium.
“Business people here have become very vocal about it,” he said. “Sept. 24
cannot come quick enough to lift the moratorium in this region.”
Higgs said if the Progressive Conservatives form government, there would be
discussions with the municipality of Sussex, and local businesses and residents
to ensure a move forward was the consensus.
“It wouldn’t be a long and drawn out process because it’s not new here,”
Higgs said.
Even with the moratorium lifted, that is only a first step. The industry is
still faced with adjusting to rules and regulations, said to be the most strict
in North America, set out by David Alward’s PC government prior to Gallant’s
Liberal win four years ago.
While Corridor wouldn’t be positioned to start drilling after next month’s
election, Moran said, the public company would be anxious to start planning for
the capital project that, if all factors line up, could begin in 2020.
“With the unequivocal support of the provincial government going forward,
Corridor will roll up our sleeves on day one, seeking to unlock the potential of
New Brunswick’s natural gas resource,” Moran said in an email.
The Liberal government introduced the moratorium in 2014 following several
anti-fracking protests that were held across the province, including
demonstrations in the Rexton area that turned violent and led to 40 arrests.
That decision halted the industry's work in the province, arguing too many
questions remained about its effects on the environment and human health.
It outlined five conditions must be met before it will lift the ban: a plan
for regulations, wastewater disposal, consultations with First Nations, a
royalty structure and "social licence".
The Liberals have been opposed on any lift until all the conditions are met,
even on a regional basis.
“Corridor Resources itself has indicated gas reserves are drying up in the
Sussex area,” said Greg Byrne, Liberal campaign spokesman, in an email where he
was linking a CBC story from the spring of 2015.
“That’s why we have raised concerns about this regional moratorium when it
appears there is more interest in new development in places like the Turtle
Creek watershed near Moncton.
The People's Alliance candidate for the riding, Jim Bedford, believes a
social license for progress with the natural gas industry has been granted in
the Sussex area.
“The moratorium is basically slamming the door. It basically tells outside
business we’re no longer open for business,” the businessman said. “A moratorium
stops all progress. Let’s get rid of it.”
He said all check marks need to be in place, like ensuring industry is 100
per cent responsible for the property it accesses and costs to remedy any
negative impacts, people need to be consulted and safety set as priority. He
believes, though, that until the moratorium is lifted and government support for
the industry is obvious, there will be no advancement to an industry a lot of
people want.
“We need jobs in this province, not roadblocks.” Bedford added. “With this
moratorium in place we’re shooting ourselves in the foot.”
Liberal Premier Brian Gallant PHOTO: ALAN COCHRANE/TIMES & TRANSCRIPT
Liberal Premier Brian Gallant is dumping on the Tory opposition leader’s
promise to bring fracking back to New Brunswick.
In a conference call with reporters Friday, Gallant said he wasn’t surprised
by Blaine Higgs’ stance, given the former oil executive was the finance minister
in the previous Progressive Conservative government that supported hydraulic
fracturing to release natural gas from shale deposits deep underground.
“Blaine Higgs is very focused on the wealthy and big businesses. He is not
focused on communities, families and ensuring that we grow the economy in a
sustainable way that protects the environment.”
While meeting with Sussex business leaders earlier this week, Higgs said he’d
lift the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in some areas of the
province if his opposition Tories won September’s provincial election.
He received praise from officials in Sussex, where the natural gas industry
was once robust.
Higgs said Friday the premier had no clue how to develop the province’s
economy.
“The premier should look at the reality of us being in last place in economic
growth in the country this year,” he said, referencing predictions made by the
province’s Finance Department and big private banks.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, uses water, sand, chemicals and high
pressure to release natural gas trapped in shale rock.
The Liberal government imposed the moratorium in 2014, halting the industry’s
work in the province, arguing too many questions remained about its effects on
the environment and human health. It states five conditions must be met before
it will lift the moratorium.
Before the ban, several anti-fracking protests were held across the province,
including demonstrations in the Rexton area that turned violent and led to 40
arrests.
The premier, who was on the conference call from Washington, D.C., to discuss
his trade talks with U.S. officials, said there was no proof the people of
Sussex wanted fracking, even if their business leaders and town council do. And
he said it would be difficult to understand how Higgs would permit regional
fracking when most companies have leases that allow them to explore and drill
over vast territories.
Higgs countered that an independent commission Gallant’s government had set
up recommended in 2016 allowing fracking based on region. The Tory leader also
mentioned that former energy minister Donald Arseneault had toyed with the idea
of a regional moratorium early on in the Gallant mandate.
Political observer Geoffrey Martin said it looked like fracking would become
an election issue again, although he doubted it would be as passionate as the
debate in the 2014 vote. Back then, exploration was very active because the
price for natural gas had peaked. The Mount Allison University political science
professor said he doubted all that economic activity would return if the
moratorium were suddenly lifted.
“This might be part of the grand strategy of the PCs and Higgs to dislodge
the Gallant Liberals,” Martin said. “Be positive in some way on this issue,
because the Liberals, Green and NDP are negative about shale gas and
fracking.”
Martin also noted that some ridings the Tories think they can win - such as
those around Sussex and Miramichi - have shown they are more favourable to
fracking than other places, such as Kent County.
Brad Howland gives a tour of his expansion at Easy Kleen in
Sussex to Progressive Conservative leader Blaine Higgs on Monday. Higgs met with
business leaders who got his assurance that he would lift the moratorium on
fracking regionally if the Tories form government.
Photo: Tammy Scott-Wallace/Telegraph-Journal
One day after Conservative leader Blaine Higgs pledged to lift a ban on
natural gas extraction, the reaction shows the issue remains as divisive as it
was leading into the last provincial election four years ago.
While meeting with Sussex business leaders, Higgs said he'll lift the
moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, at least regionally, if the
opposition Tories win September's provincial election.
Some community leaders in greater Miramichi say Higgs' pledge doesn't go far
enough and that the fracking ban should be dropped province-wide.
"If it's safe in Sussex, it's safe everywhere in New Brunswick," said
Doaktown Mayor Bev Gaston, who doubles as the president of the Union of
Municipalities of New Brunswick.
"We certainly need the revenue, and our people need the jobs."
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for natural gas in shale rock underground
involves injecting water, sand and chemicals into the rock using high pressure
to extract gas.
The Liberal government imposed the moratorium in 2014, halting the industry's
work in the province. It was extended indefinitely in 2017.
That followed the previous Tory government saying in 2013 New Brunswick
has 15 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas, enough to meet the
province's demands for 350 years.
Before the moratorium, there were several anti-fracking protests held across
the province, including demonstrations in the Rexton area that turned
violent.
Chief Aaron Sock of the Elsipogtog First Nation, southwest of Rexton,
couldn't be reached for a comment.
Lorne Amos Jr., Miramichi Business Association president, also wants the
moratorium to fall province-wide.
He said gas companies returning to the province,
exploring and producing would help businesses and add billions of dollars to the
economy.
"As it stands, if it's just lifted for the Sussex area, it will inject money
into the economy, but nothing compared to developing it all," said Amos.
Jim Emberger, spokesman for the New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance, said
recent scientific and medical research has weakened the case for fracking.
"The enormous amount of water it uses has gotten worse," said Emberger.
"It's mind-boggling to me that anybody would want to bring this back up,"
said Emberger.
Higgs said there's no need to lift the moratorium in areas that aren't
interested.
“Kent County may not want it and that’s OK, but for regions like Sussex and
Elgin, there’s a real desire to make it happen," he said.
Premier Brian Gallant was unavailable for comment, as he's currently in
Washington, D.C., for meetings.
But Rick Doucet, provincial Energy and Mines Minister, defended the
moratorium.
When Doucet's party announced the moratorium four years ago, conditions
around public approval, health and water impacts, public infrastructure effects
and wastewater were also put in place.
A new royalty structure and consulting with First Nations are required, as
well.
Doucet said those conditions haven't been met.
"We have no intentions of lifting the moratorium without any of these
conditions being met," he said.
"We're not going to revisit this simply because it's an election year
either."
Doucet said Higgs should explain how to determine public support and how
regional boundaries would look.
Tom Bateman Sr., a political science professor at St. Thomas University in
Fredericton, also said it's unclear how regions can veto or support it.
Bateman said public opinion likely remains split on the issue, but it would
likely vary by community.
"That's probably the reason Mr. Higgs has advanced a regional type of policy
on this," said Bateman.
Given the concerns around fracking, Bateman said the Tories must emphasize
responsible development if their platform is energy-themed.
"New Brunswickers need to have an adult conversation on the whole [fracking]
issue," he said.
"They'll have to look at the environmental impacts, of which there are
several, along with the economic and side."
Green Party leader David Coon said there are many reasons not to drop the
moratorium anywhere.
“We can’t be creating new infrastructure that is going to aggravate carbon
pollution in the province,” Coon said.
- With files from Tammy Scott-Wallace and John Chilibeck
Brad Howland gives a tour of his expansion at Easy Kleen in
Sussex to Progressive Conservative leader Blaine Higgs on Monday. Higgs met with
business leaders who got his assurance that he would lift the moratorium on
fracking regionally if the Tories form government.
Photo: Tammy Scott-Wallace/Telegraph-Journal
SUSSEX • Blaine Higgs says he will give Sussex business leaders what they
have been asking for and lift the moratorium on fracking, at least regionally,
if the opposition Tories win September's provincial election.
When the Progressive Conservative leader visited the Sussex region on Monday,
about 15 owners of companies that supported Corridor Resources and its natural
gas activity made their pitch again for an opportunity to grow an economy they
say has been struggling.
Particularly in the Sussex area where the potash mine laid off hundreds of
people in January 2016, they feel a regional exemption should be granted to
allow hydraulic fracturing to further develop the industry the area already
knows well.
“This is an area that’s voiced an interest in natural gas. We don’t have to
lift the moratorium in areas where there is no interest,” Higgs said. “Kent
County may not want it and that’s OK, but for regions like Sussex and Elgin,
there’s a real desire to make it happen. We’re going to develop it where we
can.”
It was the first time Higgs made such a commitment to the contentious issue
in the lead-up to the fall election.
Rick Doucet, minister of Energy and Resource Development, said Higgs is using
the fracking issue as an election platform. New Brunswickers, however, are not
likely to see any shift in the Liberal position when it comes to fracking as the
election approaches, he added.
“We’ve already gone through the process. We put in legislation that we’re
sticking with the moratorium,” he said. “We’re taking the prudent approach on
this. It’s the right approach and right now we have no plans of lifting the
moratorium at all.
“There’s still a lot of New Brunswickers...not convinced over the
fracking.”
Marcus deWinter, president of Alantra Leasing, was among the business leaders
who gathered two years ago in Penobsquis asking for the moratorium to be lifted
in the area. Around the same time the town of Sussex also wrote to the province
stating its hope in seeing the fracking moratorium lifted regionally.
The Gallant government stuck to its guns though.
deWinter thought it was important to hear Higgs’ position.
“A lot of businesses supported that industry,” he said. “It was a big boost
to our economy.”
The $70 million in work Corridor has planned in shale gas exploration and
well drilling in nearby Elgin alone, deWinter pointed out, would mean big money
for local businesses and more work for young people who want to stay in their
home province. That work is sitting in limbo, he pointed out, with the fracking
ban in place.
His business supported natural gas activity with mobile trailers for its well
sites, while local hotels and restaurants fed and provided lodging for workers,
and other businesses sold parts and tools or serviced equipment for the
industry.
“For me government should be about removing roadblocks,” Higgs told the
business owners gathered to hear what he had to say as he toured Easy Kleen
Pressure Systems’ expansion.
“We can’t continue to hold up an opportunity people want.”
And in Sussex’s case, natural gas activity is familiar, and welcomed, said
Stephen Moffett.
He is a pig farmer in Penobsquis where Corridor Resources is located. His
agricultural lands have natural gas pipelines running on them.
Since 1998 Corridor has produced natural gas without incident, said Moffett,
and he believes the company has been a good neighbour.
“They’re right on my property. I don’t do much work for them but they’ve been
here for 20 years and they’ve been great to deal with,” he said, “and we
desperately need the economic growth this industry can bring.”
Corridor had plans to proceed with further fracking to develop more natural
gas wells, but the work was stalled once the Gallant government placed the ban
after its 2014 election win.
The fracking debate was among the hottest issues of that provincial election
and ordering a moratorium was one of Gallant’s election promises.
Gallant’s government set five criteria to lift the moratorium that include
improved relations with First Nations, an acceptable plan to dispose of frack
water, agreeable social licence, a renewed royalty structure, a plan to mitigate
impacts on public infrastructure, and to protect water and the environment.
Moffett believes in the Sussex region, the criteria can be met.
“We are not trying to be political here,” Moffett said. “Our message is the
same as it’s been with the current government. We believe there is no reason why
the moratorium should not be lifted here.”
The Green Party is an opponent of fracking, and if you ask leader David Coon,
he will argue there are plenty of reasons not to lift the moratorium
anywhere.
“Well the problem is we’re in a climate crisis so we can’t be creating new
infrastructure that is going to aggravate carbon pollution in the province,”
Coon said from Fredericton on Wednesday, suggesting until a door-to-door survey
is done, the support of the Sussex region cannot truly be measured.
“We have targets to reduce target pollution so we can’t be taking on this
kind of activity that poses risk to our water and is also going to increase the
carbon pollution of the province.”
The Dennis Report Published on Sep 1, 2018 Mr. Bowser has a great line in our conversation, "It is hard for me to find work in New Brunswick, so I have to travel the world instead. It seems there is no interest in corruption in New Brunswick." It was said with tongue-in-cheek … to a degree. Corruption is a major problem and challenge in New Brunswick, and Mr. Bowser walks us through some key perspectives and shares some stories of his work. At the heart of each is a central theme … we can be doing so much better in New Brunswick. What are your thoughts?
Sussex-Fundy-St. Martins People's Alliance candidate, Conservative
Bruce Northrup, Hampton's Green candidate John Sabine, and Sussex-Fundy-St.
Martins Liberal candidate Ian Smyth represented their parties at a debate in
Sussex Wednesday hosted by the SNB Forest Products Marketing Board.
Photo: Laura MacInnis/Kings County Record
Woodlot owners in southern New Brunswick got a chance to grill provincial
election candidates this week in a debate tailored to issues on the forest
industry.
On Wednesday at the Fairway Inn in Sussex the SNB Forest Products Marketing
Board invited all five parties to send one candidate from any riding to speak on
behalf of their party. From Sussex-Fundy St. Martins Conservative candidate
Bruce Northrup, Liberal Ian Smyth, and People’s Alliance Jim Bedford took
part.
While Hampton’s Green party candidate John Sabine took part in the candidate
debate he also had the unique position of being the secretary of the N.B.
Federation of woodlot owners and has served as chair of the SNB Forest Products
Marketing Board.
The NDP party declined, while some local candidates from southern ridings
came out to observe the debate and talk to constituents including
Sussex-Fundy-St. Martins Green candidate Fred Harrison and Hampton PC candidate
Gary Crossman.
Representing the marketing board, Chris Spencer acted as moderator for the
night.
“We represent a substantial voting block and we own 30 per cent of the land
base in the province,” he said. “There are more than 41,000 woodlot owners in
the province, and of course that doesn’t include children and wives - families
with voting power too.”
The hot topic of the night centred around Crown land.
He asked if each of their parties would support private woodlots receiving a
equitable share of money put toward silviculture, and also whether they would
support putting up a small amount of Crown land forest products put up for
tender for independent harvesting contractors for the purpose of getting a more
accurate market value of crown land stumpage.
“According to Energy and Resource Development analysis for the fiscal period
2015-2016, there was $6.3 million invested in private woodlot silviculture
programs - i.e. tree planting and trimming. During this period, there was $19.1
million invested in Crown land silviculture,” Spencer said.
“Since we’ve been in office we have invested in the future needs of the
industry,” Smyth said. “A liberal government will continue to contribute to the
development of private woodlot silviculture providing funding for the program
and maintaining growth through new opportunities. We will continue to listen
and improve forest management as industry practices evolve.”
The Liberal candidate said his party sees potential for greater use of
private wood and is willing to work with stakeholders. He said while he is still
learning the details of all the ins and outs of the industry he is eager to look
for solutions to the issues at hand.
Northrup said the silviculture program stayed intact with his leadership as
Natural Resources Minister under the former government.
“It isn’t an easy job dealing with bureaucrats and with people who want to
reduce the silviculture program. We want to add to it. Proportionality has to be
looked at in a serious way,” Northrup said.
The Conservative candidate praised the auditor general’s work but said she
needs more support financially to be able to do her job even better and delve
into the numbers.
“Woodlot owners need their fair share,” Bedford said.
While he said the auditor general does the best with what she is given he
believes transparency is an issue.
“It is difficult for the auditor general to do her job if she doesn’t have
all the numbers.”
Sabine agreed.
“I guess I’m not going to make a good politician because I can’t spin.
There’s direct questions and the answers are all over the board.” Sabine said. “
When Bruce was the minister I suggested strongly we take three plots - put out
for tender and see what it is worth. A green government will do that and we will
get a fair price for our taxpayers.''
There was a range of opinions on the use of the weed killing chemical,
glysophate.
“I know Health Canada says it is fine. But there are two sides. I’m not
sitting here today 100 per cent sure it is safe to use,” Northrup said. “It is
something that would have to be looked at in its entirety and I don’t think that
has been done.''
Smyth said he uses the product himself on his farm.
“I have a soy bean crop. 30 acres. If we don’t spray we lose the hole crop
from pigweed. If Health Canada says it is safe, I am satisfied,” he said.
Sabine and Bedford said their parties would both ban it outright.
Liberal minister cheered as he stands up for Irving and big mills
Green MLA David Coon accuses province of failure to defend marketing boards and woodlot owners
Connell Smith ·
Rick
Doucet, the minister of energy and resource development, suggested
Thursday that this isn't a good time to raise issues about the treatment
of woodlot owners in New Brunswick. (CBC)
The
New Brunswick government appeared to come down on the side of the
biggest mill owners Thursday in the dispute with marketing boards
representing woodlot owners.
The issue was raised by Green Party Leader David Coon during question period in the legislature.
"Why
has the minister of energy and resource development abdicated his legal
responsibility to woodlot owners and failed to enforce his own
legislation?" Coon asked.
This was a reference to the practice
of J.D. Irving Ltd. and other companies of bypassing the marketing
boards. Instead, individual woodlot owners must approach a company or
one of its contractors directly if they want to sell wood.
Old days are gone
Minister
Rick Doucet appeared to admonish Coon for raising the issue at a time
when the province is fighting punitive trade tariffs imposed by the U.S.
Commerce Department.
"It's about time we started to stand up for
the mills in this province," Doucet said to loud cheers from members of
the Liberal caucus.
"Things have changed in the last 30 years."
More
than 30 years ago, legislation granted special powers to woodlot
marketing boards as a tradeoff for turning management of Crown forests
over to the biggest mill operators. The system began to change in the
1990s at the request of industry.
"The market has become extremely
competitive," Doucet said. "The mills have got to be very competitive
and out in the forests we've got to be competitive at what we do."
JDI won challenge
Green Party Leader David Coon pressed Doucet on the fate of woodlot marketing boards during question period Thursday (CBC)
Earlier
this week, an attempt by Sussex-based SNB Forest Products Marketing
Board to regain control over wood sales in its region was struck down by
the New Brunswick Forest Products Commission.
The decision
following an appeal to the commission by J.D. Irving Ltd., AV Group and
more than two dozen contractors who do work on behalf of the mill
owners.
The Liberals came to power in 2014 just after New
Brunswick opened up more Crown land to forest companies — a move some
woodlot owners have complained undermined them.
The U.S. Commerce
Department has cited increases in the volume of wood from Crown land
among its reasons for the anti-dumping tariffs imposed on JDI and other
mills, saying private woodlot owners cannot raise prices higher than the
stumpage royalties paid by mills for Crown wood.
Suggests link to tariffs
In
early November, the U.S. imposed tariffs of 9.9 percent on
JDI products, and 21 percent on lumber products from all other New
Brunswick producers.
In question period, Coon suggested a reason.
"And you wonder why New Brunswick's mills lost their softwood tariff exemption while Nova Scotia retained it," he said.
"Why doesn't the minister of energy and resource development fix the private wood market so it's fair to woodlot owners?"
In
his response, Doucet said the province's forestry sector needs to
"dialogue" rather than fight, but he did not speak to any government
initiatives to bring woodlot groups, mill owners and government
officials together.
JDI victorious over wood marketing board, but new rules coming
Ruling by commission leaves forest company free to bypass marketing boards for wood purchases
Connell Smith · CBC News ·
New
Brunswick's Forest Products Commission is proposing to allow marking
boards to license anyone buying, cutting or selling wood within their
territories. (CBC)
Forestry
giant J.D. Irving Ltd. has won its challenge against a Sussex-based
marketing board that tried to regain control over how wood is bought and
sold in southern New Brunswick.
The New Brunswick Forest Products
Commission agreed with JDI and other companies that the SNB marketing
board overstepped its authority when it issued an order saying all wood
had to be sold to the board and bought from the board.
But
in a surprise move the commission also drafted proposed new rules to be
used by wood sellers, contractors and purchasers operating
in SNB's territory, including JDI.
The commission, which heard the
case in the summer, threw out the SNB order that declared sales and
purchases could only be made through the board.
An attempt to force negotiations
The commission described the order as an improper attempt by SNB to use its regulatory powers to force Irving to negotiate.
The
decision is unlikely to change much for the province's seven forest
product marketing boards, several of which are no longer able to
negotiate price or other contract terms on behalf of their members in
areas where Irving and a few other companies are involved.
Irving
buys much of its wood by direct contracts with private landowners and
skips the SNB board altogether, except for paying it a required
commission.
Although the commission ruling did not deal with the
controversial direct contracts, the rejection of SNB's order essentially
allows JDI and the other companies to carry on with their preferred
purchase practices.
Bypassing board since 2012
JDI and the
SNB board have been locked in a dispute for eight years since the
company began bypassing the marketing board and requiring landowners
to negotiate wood sales on an individual basis.
In 2012, JDI stopped buying wood from the board entirely.
Irving,
AV Group and contractors have since expanded the individual or direct
contract model to other parts of the province, threatening the future of
the entire marketing board system.
The board's written decision
likened the dispute to something "between a party who is empowered and
is desperately attempting to exercise its legislated powers and parties
who desire that the exercise of those powers be done fairly,
consistently and within the intent of the Natural Products Act."
Chance to comment
Although
the commission rejected the SNB board's attempt to regain control of
wood sales, the proposed new rules would require anyone selling, buying
or processing forest products to be licensed by the marketing board.
Records would have to be kept from all harvesting and wood sales and forwarded to the board.
The
draft rules will be cemented in place April 1, after all sides in the
dispute have an opportunity to make written submissions.
"It
doesn't really do what the SNB board was looking for them to do,"
Susannah Banks, executive director of the New Brunswick Federation of
Woodlot Owners, said of the commission's ruling.
Nonetheless the
licensing of buyers and sellers is a positive step, said Banks, and the
rules are likely to be adopted by the six other marketing boards.
Helps to know who's who
"It
helps in the sense that you know who is operating in the woods," she
said. "It should give you the ability to know who all the players are in
your area. We'll work our way toward some of the other issues."
Reached Tuesday by CBC News, J.D. Irving Ltd. spokesperson Mary Keith issued a brief statement.
"We
respect the decision of the Forest Products Commission and look forward
to establishing a productive relationship with the SNB board," the
statement said.
A spokesperson for SNB said there would be no comment on the commission decision until after a board meeting Thursday evening.
About the Author
Connell Smith
Reporter
Connell Smith is a reporter with CBC in Saint John. He can be reached at 632-7726 Connell.smith@cbc.ca
J.D. Irving and other forest companies take an axe to the longtime marketing board system
By Connell Smith 07 December 2017
In the kitchen of his Queens County
farmhouse, Jim McCrea flips through photo albums spread across the
table until he comes to the image of an elderly man with a pipe clamped
in his mouth.
“This is my grandfather,” McCrea said. “When he was 90, he had his ankle broken yarding logs with a horse.”
The McCreas go back almost two
centuries in New Brunswick, and over the years since the first tree was
cut, their property in Shannon has grown to more than 2,400 hectares of
farm and forest land.
Every year, thousands of cords of softwood would be hauled out of the
McCrea woods near the Washademoak Lake, enough to employ four men
operating a pair of skidders and two logging trucks.
But no longer.
Forestry giant J.D. Irving Ltd. has changed its way of doing business, bringing logging at McCrea Farms to a complete stop.
Under a new “model” reminiscent of bygone times, JDI now buys its
logs the way it wants from whom it wants — mostly turning its back on
the forest marketing boards created to make the system fair.
“I'm not anti-Irving,” said McCrea, who considers JDI co-CEO Jim Irving, and his father, J.K. Irving, friends of the family.
"I've hauled wood for nigh on 40 years myself. I haven't hauled a
load of softwood for three years. I'm concerned about the future of
private woodlots, especially in southern New Brunswick."
Half the private wood used by JDI comes from southern New Brunswick,
and it’s here JDI has been locked in a fight against the local wood
marketing board, a fight that could decide the future of all seven
boards in the province and tens of thousands of woodlot owners.
A hard-won balance
Jim
McCrea remembers the struggles of the 1960s and '70s to organize
private woodlot owners across New Brunswick so they could all get better
prices from the mills.
His father, Lawrence McCrea, travelled the province with activist
clergyman William Hart, trying to persuade families to join the New
Brunswick Federation of Woodlot Owners.
“We needed organization,” said Jim McCrea , now 70. “We needed to put our wood in one pool and get better money.”
The federation eventually won a system based on marketing boards,
which were formally recognized by the Richard Hatfield government in
1978 and enshrined in the Crown Lands and Forest Act of 1980.
In
a difficult balancing of interests, the act handed control over Crown
forests to the 10 companies that then owned the biggest mills in New
Brunswick.
Today, only four companies control that same area: JDI, Fornebu
Lumber, Twin Rivers Paper and AV Group, which is made up of AV Nackawic
and AV Cell.
The act also said the forestry giants
would have to buy their wood from private sources first, using Crown
wood only as a secondary source.
Marketing boards would negotiate the prices, so that a woodlot-owning family would be spared having to cut individual deals.
Irving resistance
Whether the companies have the
legal authority to bypass the marketing boards is now being weighed by
the New Brunswick Forest Products Commission, an arm’s-length regulatory
panel.
JDI, backed by AV Group and more than two dozen private contractors
who work for the companies, appealed to the commission after the SNB
Forest Products Marketing Board issued an “order” declaring how wood
sales must work in the region.
All wood sold in its territory had to be sold through the board, said
the board based near Sussex, and all wood purchased in its territory
had to be purchased from the board.
Irving also launched a challenge through the Court of Queen’s Bench related to the same order.
When the commission heard the case in August, JDI explained how it does business outside the board system.
Woodlot owners who want to sell wood to JDI simply contact the company, Irving vice-president Jason Limongelli testified.
A “direct contract” is worked out, setting out the price, volume of
wood, delivery schedule, and bonuses for achieving targets, he said.
The marketing board is acknowledged only in that it receives a fee from each, as required by law.
Limongelli said Irving hasn’t bought wood through SNB since 2012. At
the commission’s insistence, JDI did try negotiating with the board, but
the company didn’t get what it wanted.
"We indicated that we weren't interested in a board contract under
the terms of unnamed contracts, whereby all the wood was purchased from
the board and sold to the board," he said.
Crown stakes
The Irving-led fight against the marketing boards has largely gone unnoticed.
But a chorus of voices is now calling for a reset, or at the very
least a public discussion about the future of the marketing board
system.
The voices include Alan Graham, a former natural resources minister
who once relaxed provincial laws at industry’s request, and Green Party
Leader David Coon, who is frustrated by what he sees as the current
Liberal government’s failure to stand up for thousands of small woodlots
owners.
Forests are New Brunswick’s biggest resource, with an industry that
employs 22,000 people full time. Half the wood is on publicly owned
Crown land, which is licensed to the big companies.
With so much Crown wood available to industry, the trick has always
been finding a way to ensure woodlot owners like Jim McCrea can still
find a market and fair price for their logs.
Jim McCrea in the forest near Shannon, N.B.
The law says the price of Crown wood
cannot be lower than private wood, so each year, private wood prices
across the Maritimes are surveyed.
But who really controls the price of private wood? With fewer and
larger companies as potential buyers, woodlot owners are competing
against each other for contracts.
“The biggest challenge, I suppose, is to compete against Crown land
wood,” McCrea said. “It flows freely, it flows freely, and mine
doesn’t.”
Early chips in the law
David Coon blames Frank McKenna’s Liberal government of the 1990s for starting the erosion of the marketing board system.
Green Party Leader David Coon.
Ten years after the landmark Crown
Lands and Forest Act was passed, the government bowed to pressure from
mill owners and relaxed the so-called primary-source rules.
Those rules required companies to make private wood, including their
own, their primary source of supply and Crown wood a source of last
resort.
In a recent interview, Graham said the industry was in trouble in
1992, when he, as minister, supported giving the mill owners a break.
But conditions are different today, said Graham, who believes woodlot owners still need the protection of marketing boards.
“The pendulum has swung,” he said.
The McKenna government also opened the door to JDI’s direct contracts
with woodlot owners, although the move was intended to apply only to
the largest private suppliers.
A marketing board had the right to sign off on such direct contracts,
and the company's initial use of them was not the norm it's become in
southern New Brunswick.
The next big changes happened in April 2014, when David Alward’s
Progressive Conservative government made even more Crown forest
available to forestry companies.
In exchange for 20 per cent more Crown
wood, the companies, chiefly JDI, promised to invest hundreds of
millions of dollars to modernize or expand their mills.
The pact with JDI was billed as an opportunity for woodlot owners to sell more wood.
Those landowners, however, suspected the additional Crown harvest would only hurt their bargaining power.
In fact, as the natural resources minister, Paul Robichaud, was
announcing the Crown deal, JDI had already shifted to its new purchasing
model, away from marketing boards.
Today, said McCrea and others, the biggest players control it all:
Crown wood, their own forests and sales from private woodlots.
It’s not the free market JDI claims, they said.
An independent lot
The marketing board system is not
without its faults. The way it works, in essence, is that boards try to
win the price their members want, then put out a call to woodlot owners
to deliver the logs.
But there have been times when a board has failed to deliver on
contracts with mills. Or a spike in prices has led some woodlot owners
to drive their logs to Maine to sell.
“There is still an element of freedom in the small wood producers'
world, where you can do as you wish,” said Bud Bird, a natural resources
minister under Hatfield and an architect of the wood supply system
created in 1980.
Bud Bird, natural resources minister in the Hatfield government.
“It’s difficult to control all 35, 000
of those woodlot producers into a single cohesive source of supply that
is totally reliable, day after day, year after year, in good prices and
bad prices.”
At the hearings in August, JDI had the support of more than two dozen
harvesters, often woodlot owners themselves, who have each negotiated
direct contracts with the company.
But the testimony of contractor Doug Murray of Sussex was telling.
Murray revealed he had no choice but to go after his own contract with
JDI instead of sticking with the SNB board.
A slice of Doug Murray's testimony before the commission.
Murray defended the direct contract
model, saying it gives him a place to sell his wood, and he’s better
able to plan and schedule the harvesting.
SNB lawyer David Duncan Young told the commission that Irving, its
contractors, AV and others simply refuse to accept regulation of the
industry.
"They want a free market economy, they want control over their destiny," he said.
Later, in response to a request for comment, JDI’s Limongelli returned to that theme.
“JDI believes there is a role for forest products marketing boards in New Brunswick,” he said in an email.
“JDI also believes it is critical to ensure there is a free market in
the province, where willing buyers and willing sellers are free to make
commercially acceptable agreements.”
How free is the market?
David Coon scoffed at the notion of a free market for forestry products in New Brunswick.
With so much Crown land wood available to mill owners, he said, a free market is not possible.
"That's why the province has put in place over time legislation to
kind of create fair-market access for the woodlot owners.,” Coon said.
Jim McCrea believes there’s a correlation between the 2014 deal to
give JDI greater Crown access and the loss of negotiating power for
private woodlot owners.
In 2012, his pulpwood fetched $14 a tonne. In 2014, after the Crown land deal, similar trees sold to JDI for $8 a tonne.
“It may be a bit of an exaggeration,” McCrea said, "but I maintained
the day Paul Robichaud signed that contract with Crown land, private
wood went down $6 a tonne. And I have the paperwork to prove it.”
Last month, McCrea showed visitors around the rolling expanse of farmland and forest the family owns in Shannon.
A few kilometres south of his home,
next to a forest of spruce and fir, he got out of his pickup truck and
and walked into the woods, pointing to some larger trees that are now
dead.
"There's probably 25 to 40 acres where we're standing of over-mature forest," McCrea said.
He estimated another 250 acres, or more than 100 hectares, in other pockets are also ready for cutting.
By remaining loyal to the marketing board, and therefore unable to
sell his wood, he is being punished, McCrea said. Even if he tries to
sell wood, unsolicited, at the gates of an Irving mill, he'll make
considerably less than landowners who choose to sign contracts with the
company.
A government standing back
The
unpopularity of the Alward government’s Crown land deal with JDI in
2014 helped Brian Gallant’s election prospects the following year.
Yet both McCrea and Coon see an unwillingness by Gallant and his
government to get involved at all in the dispute over marketing boards.
SNB has spent well over $100,000 on legal fees in 2016 and 2017
defending the marketing board system against JDI before the Forest
Products Commission and in the courts.
The Federation of Woodlot Owners had to launch a GoFundMe campaign to continue the fight.
"What is upsetting is the province is not standing by the woodlot owners and defending their own legislation," Coon said.
"The governments don't have the courage, whether they're Liberal or
Conservative, to stand with the woodlot owners in this case, to stand
with the people."
Graham, the former natural resources minister, has called for formal discussions about the future of private wood sales.
“I'm not calling for a royal commission or anything like that, but I
think there should be, really, an overall look at access to wood and the
marketing of wood going into the 2020s and beyond."
PC natural resources critic Ross Wetmore also called for talks, preferably with fresh faces.
"I believe today that there's so much
bad blood between both groups, or all groups, I'm going to say, that
we're just at an impasse," Wetmore said.
He would not commit, however, to the marketing board system as it was originally set up.
Rick Doucet, the Liberal minister of energy and resource development,
said department staff regularly meet with all sides and he’ll talk
anytime.
“We really should have some good conversations,” said Doucet, who
wouldn’t discuss the SNB case because it’s before the commission.
To the U.S., an ‘oligopsony’
Looming
over the entire debate is the U.S. Commerce Department’s recent
decision to slap anti-dumping duties on New Brunswick softwood lumber
products, suggesting it leans more to McCrea and Coon’s analysis.
In a preliminary decision last April, the department described the
New Brunswick market as an “oligopsony,” where a few companies dominate
and have considerable power to control prices.
A department memo pointed to the 2014 decision that allowed more
harvesting of Crown trees as a problem for the private wood market,
saying the big mills were using private wood merely as a secondary
option.
“Since the mills had access to additional Crown origin standing
timber, private woodlot owners could not expect to charge more than
Crown stumpage prices because the private woodlot owners were only a
supplemental source of supply to the large mills.”
J.D. Irving has been steadfast in the claim that its private wood purchases are unaffected by the harvesting of Crown timber.
“We’ve had a vibrant market with the private woodlot owners in New
Brunswick,” said another JDI vice-president, Jerome Pelletier.
“There’s a very large volume being harvested every year. It’s a free market.”
JDI recently approached the York-Sunbury-Charlotte Marketing Board,
offering to go through the board to buy “ancillary” wood, or 15 per cent
of the company’s total wood purchases in that area.
The contract proposed by JDI included language legitimizing its
practice of using direct contracts for the rest of its wood purchases in
the territory,
The board agreed, believing, as one board official put it, that 15 per cent is better than nothing.
Similar offers have been made to boards in Victoria, Carleton and
Madawaska but negotiations there are not going as well. The company has
not approached SNB.
Back to the beginning
The
changes the big companies are wresting from marketing boards and
landowners have undone much of what Jim McCrea ’s father fought for
decades ago.
Any notion of a free market is not possible in southern New
Brunswick, where distance makes it uneconomical to sell to mills that
aren’t owned by Irving, McCrea said.
For years, McCrea acted as negotiator for the SNB, a role that brought him face to face with Jim Irving of JDI.
“We've chatted many times over many years,” McCrea said. “J.K.
Irving was a friend of Lawrence McCrea. When my dad passed away there
was three generations of Irvings attended the funeral.
On the left is Lawrence McCrea, photographed in 1992. (Submitted
by Jim McCrea) On the right is J.K. Irving, photographed in 1987.
(Scott Perry/Canadian Press)
“I don't feel it should be a personal
issue. I think it is a business. The Irvings are good business people, I
don't have any problem with that.
“To demand direct contracts from everyone — I have a problem with that.”
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Final blow? Historian fears for future of woodlot marketing boards
Legal costs mount for non-profit SNB board as Irving and others challenge authority
connell smith · CBC News ·
J.D.
Irving Ltd. bypasses the marketing board in southern New Brunswick to
make most of its private wood purchases directly from woodlot owners or
industry contractors. (CBC)
A
University of New Brunswick historian says the province could be
witnessing the collapse of its marketing board system for private
woodlots.
William Parenteau, who has long watched New Brunswick
forest policy, says any control marketing boards had in their industry
is being lost.
Much
is at stake, he said, in the parallel challenges J.D. Irving Ltd. and
other industry players have launched in court and through the province's
Forest Products Commission against the SNB Co-operative, based in the
Sussex area, and its marketing board.
"The system's been diminished over the last 20 years," Parenteau said. "So this would be, maybe a final blow."
There will be a few winners and a lot of losers in that process.- William Parenteau , UNB historian
"The
marketing board may be there in name, but if [forestry companies] are
able to do an end-run around it, and then favour certain larger
contractors, what you'll probably see is a consolidation of smaller
woodlots. There will be a few winners and a lot of losers in that
process."
Parenteau said the issue is about wood prices and who controls those prices.
Toll on rural communities
And it is already contributing to the "emptying out" of rural communities, he said.
Forest
product sales are regulated in New Brunswick, and woodlot marketing
boards were granted authority over sales in their respective geographic
territories in 1982.
The system was intended to give individual woodlot owners more collective clout in negotiating sales to mills.
J.D.
Irving stopped buying wood from the southern New Brunswick board in
2012 and has been contracting wood purchases directly from private
woodlot owners or from a group of contractors who cut wood on private
land.
University
of New Brunswick historian William Parenteau says the province's forest
products marketing boards could soon exist 'in name only.' (University of New Brunswick)
Those
relationships are already developing roots. In an affidavit filed with
the court, Irving vice-president Jason Limongelli said 55 percent of the
company's total private wood purchases in the province (326,000 cubic
metres in 2015) were made "in the SNB board area."
A group of contractors and woodlot owners from SNB's territory have joined JDI in the Forest Products Commission challenge.
Two
woodlot owners managed to get elected to SNB's 36-member board with the
express purpose of reversing attempts by the board to regain control
over wood sales.
The continuing legal battles are putting a
financial strain on the non-profit board, which lacks J. D. Irving's
legal and financial resources.
Ruling a setback
On Monday,
a judge in Saint John dismissed an application by the board and its
co-operative that attempted to convert a lawsuit launched against the
groups by J.D. Irving into a judicial review, a less costly process more
akin to an appeal than a trial.
Financial statements issued to
marketing board members after the year ending April 1 show the
non-profit spent $92,000 fighting the Irving legal action through the
courts and JDI, AV Nackawic and others before the Forest Products
Commission.
While the commission hearing took place Aug. 9 and 10, the Court of Queen's Bench trial has yet to take place.
Appeals are a strong possibility in the case of both the coming commission ruling and the eventual court trial.
A
spokesperson for J.D. Irving did not respond to two CBC requests for
the company's position on the role of forest products marketing boards.
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I do not want anyone to be under any illusions about my spells and its numerous rituals. Real and effective Voodoo is no child's play, it is expensive because, after the rituals, I will have to destroy all the materials involved by fire and the ashes scattered over a flowing stream or river.
You will get what you seek.But please understand this might take a lot of time and that individual results may vary. contact +27663492930, greatogudugu@gmail.com
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