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Methinks folks should tune in to CBC right now N'esy Pas?

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/10/tories-continue-tough-medavie-talk-with.html

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/political-panel-podcast-ambulance-tories-liberals-medavie-1.4879144

Tories continue tough Medavie talk with threat of cancelling ambulance contract

Liberal throne speech was the topic for this edition of the Political Panel Podcast

CBC News · Posted: Oct 26, 2018 6:14 AM AT

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Scott McLaughlin

I agree with Kris Austin's comments. No more "studies" are needed. It's time to actually DO SOMETHING, like Higgs is suggesting.
Can't get Gallant's Liberals out of power soon enough. They are running the province into the ground.

David Amos

@Scott McLaughlin "They are running the province into the ground."

Methinks it appears to be the case but everybody knows the Conservatives are no better just as their NDP, Green Party and PANB cohorts explained during the election. Its a small wonder why my friend Dr Roger Richard and I ran against them all as Independent Candidates N'esy Pas?

 

Rosco holt

@Scott McLaughlin
"They" did you include the Conservatives?

Marguerite Deschamps

@David Amos, you are NO Dr Roger Richard, He got 194 votes (more than the NDP) to your measly 54.

David Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks you have no clue about what my friend Dr Richard and I have been up to for years N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks you have no clue about what my friend Dr Richard and I have been up to for years N'esy Pas?

Marguerite Deschamps

@David Amos, you're right; I have no clue what you're up to. They're could be some good coming out of it, hopefully...

David Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps Remember smart meters?

Marguerite Deschamps

@David Amos, sure; let's keep those stu pid meters, like all the rest.

David Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks that you forgot that NB Power lost the argument N'esy Pas?

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David Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps you are NO Dr Roger Richard, He got 194 votes (more than the NDP) to your measly 54.

My friend Roger can speak for himself if he wishes to do so but no doubt much to your chagrin your friend has been silenced

Methinks that the regular posters in here don't miss your buddy Marc Martin after he exited stage left and all his nasty comments were erased N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/brian-gallant-throne-speech-1.4874729

 
Michael G. L. Geraldson

Haven't we heard this all before?

David Amos

@Michael G. L. Geraldson I heard it all again just now

  
Fred Brewer

Oh for heaven's sake. Why give Medavie 6 months to improve services? That's worse than Brian's plan which is also terrible. Kris Austin is on the right track here and I think he would make a fine Premier.

David Amos

@Fred Brewer Did you listen to CBC just now?

Roland Godin

@Fred Brewer
He may have the potential, however he is anchored by some language bashers...eh!/voilà.

Fred Brewer

@Roland Godin
Roland could you please identify who the "language bashers" are and how exactly are they bashing language?

David Amos

@Fred Brewer "Kris Austin is on the right track here and I think he would make a fine Premier"

Methinks everybody in the know knows why i strongly disagree N'esy Pas?

Tim Raworth

What a bunch of propaganda from ****. When you have the president of the paramedics union on record stating " that 150 bilingual paramedics are not just going to fall out of the sky anytime soon" then that tells the story. The way this province works is, language over costs and lives. Time for us to wake up.

Nicolas Krinis

@Tim Raworth So do the down-voters agree that language ought to be over and above lives? Pathetic.

Jim Moore

@Nicolas Krinis only the french ones

David Amos

@Tim Raworth YUP

Clive Gibbons

@Nicolas Krinis

In that case, let's just bring 150 unilingual francophone medics in from Quebec. Y'all would be ok with that, right?

David Amos

@Clive Gibbons Nay Not I

  

David Amos

Methinks folks should tune in to CBC right now N'esy Pas?

Mario Doucet

Language is a barrier in NB for the government to deliver health care.

Roland Godin

@Mario Doucet
Of course there is confusion between the now mostly used basic, good to order a hamburger, U$ian dialect and the cognitive intellectual English language...et voilà.

David Amos 

@Mario Doucet Methinks it is the government itself that is the barrier for proper health care. Everybody knows I have been refused a Health Care card for many years. The funniest thing that happened in that regard had to bee when the RCMP had me falsely imprisoned in the Looney Bin of the DECH in 2008 while my sister was a patient advocate and a friend of mine was the Assistant Deputy Minister of Mental Health. I doubt that the greedy immigrant shrinks could bill our Health Care System for their assaults against me because i had no Health Care Card Too Too Funny N'esy Pas?

Jim Moore

@David Amos Have you ever heard the terms the "Squeaky wheel gets the grease" or like the Japanese like to say "The nail that sticks up get's pounded down" you kind of bring it on yourself by aggravating government agencies and employees, and its human nature to use the resources available to retaliate, i am not saying its right, but its certainly reality.

David Amos

@Jim Moore Have you ever heard of the legal term called libel?

 

Nicolas Krinis

The most flagrant lack of transparency I have ever seen. Why did MBC ever get the contract without a bidding process? Why did they get it at all? Why, with all the technology that we have, do we need bilingual medics? The only phrase an anglophone medic ought to know in French is "where does it hurt?" When you are taken to a hospital via ambulance, there's not much talking going on, just the reading and interpretation of vital signs.
It's not enough that highway 11 around Belledune has seen close to 10 deaths in a decade, perhaps more, with the worst roads and the most 18 wheelers you have ever seen destroying the asphalt, moose by the dozens to boot, now we have to contend with a lack of medics because they are not bilingual.
This taking over of EM and the ambulance services by MBC does not pass the smell test.

Rosco holt

@Nicolas Krinis
When you look back on how Medavie got the contract. It was done under the Bernie Lord government and guess who sits on their board now.

Bernie Lord himself, big coincidence.

Nicolas Krinis

@Rosco holt There you have it.

Nicolas Krinis

@Nicolas Krinis My spouses cousin died because it took 40 min. for the ambulance to get there, with 2 elderly octogenarians doing the CPR all that time. I don't know if most people know that this is very demanding physically, even for a young person, imagine for an elderly individual. So to all the down-voters, please reconsider your priorities.

Dan Armitage

@Nicolas Krinis It's ok Nick thier gonna have a study then they'll have a review of the study then back to reviewing the study. They look so stupid your concerns are well warranted.

Shawn McShane

@Rosco holt It is worse than that, Bernard Lord is Chief Executive Officer of Medavie.

David Amos

@Shawn McShane Methinks everybody knows that by now N'esy Pas?

Shawn McShane

@David Amos If everybody knew then why are they still voting LibCon???

David Amos 

 @Shawn McShane Methinks even you must understand that when i refer to everybody.I am talking about my political foes not the electorate I am diligently trying to inform of the awful truth of it all. However to my own self I must be true and I confess that the awful truth is nobody gives a damn. That is why so any folks don't bother to vote. I suspect if you were to ask many ellow Maritimers who their MP or MLA was it is truly amazing how many won't know. Even though they may have votes it was usually only for the colour of the coat like their Forefathers did. That is why we are in the fix were are N'esy Pas?

 

Jeff Smith

Good for the PCs. Liberals seem to give our money away with both hands.

Dan Armitage

@Jeff Smith There's none left to give away. Thier now using the brinks trucks for cannabis since the money isn't there anymore. Funny how the Graham team spent it like we had multi billions then four years later the province brought in the gallant team and what they keep spending too. Nice job Gallant step aside you had your chance and lost

David Amos

@Jeff Smith "Liberals seem to give our money away with both hands."

After the PCs gave our forest away EH?

Marguerite Deschamps

@David Amos, The CONs sure did give our forest away. I still see That Paul Robichaud with his usual smirk sitting next to the oligarch who runs the province.

David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks you should try telling me something I did know N'esy Pas?

Everybody knows this story appeared in the Kings County Record on June 22, 2004 two days before Premier Lord had me illegally barred from legislative properties.

Everybody knows that I have run for public office 5 more times since
then including this election. Clearly nothing has changed N'esy Pas?

The Unconventional Candidate
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."

"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."

"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."

David Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps "The CONs sure did give our forest away"

Methinks is kinda sad and comical that the wealthy sheople in Saint John are complaining of the wild life coming to their fancy neigbourhoods after their favourite oligarch sprayed our forests so much that there is simply nothing left for bambi to eat N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/saint-john-nuisance-deer-survey-1.4879444

Shawn McShane

@David Amos And when the flooding gets worse because of all the clear-cutting they embrace climate change when it suits them...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/forests-and-floods-clear-cutting-new-brunswick-floods-1.4703225

David Amos

@Shawn McShane Methinks if you are ethical you should just pick up the phone and call me N'esy Pas?

 
David Amos

Methinks if nothing else folks concerned about the French versus English issue should read this Senate Report N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/senate-official-languages-report-moncton-1.4877872

Jim Moore

@David Amos David you are so pro french and anti English its not even funny, the same goes for your Pro Liberal anti Conservative stance, the province is sick of giving the french population (less than 30%) twice the funding the English receive (more than 70%) why should a minority of the population receive approximately 4 times the funding per person than the majority do. Less than 10% are exclusively french speaking, we don't need two of everything, french and English hospitals, government offices, school systems, school buses. The discriminatory behavior of segregation in NB needs to stop, and it will now that the Liberals are out.

David Amos

@Jim Moore Methinks you have no clue as to who I am N'esy Pas?

Marguerite Deschamps

@Jim Moore, David Amos pro French? Have you been to the Cannabis NB store?

David Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks you should read my lawsuit N'esy Pas?

Marguerite Deschamps

@David Amos, you have to be a lawyer in order to wear a law suit. I

reginald churchill

@David Amos ------looking over the article it would seem one sided for the French as I seen no representatives for the English. I seen only input from sanb.

Roland Godin

@Jim Moore
According to some we have all the jobs therefore pay for all, don't worry if some can't meet their obligations we are, like most in the province, caring and sharing...et voilà.

David Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps "I
Methinks you should say hey to the lawyer Marc Richard for me while you are at it N'esy Pas?

Marguerite Deschamps

@David Amos, you must stop wearing that law suit then.

David Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks you should Google David Amos Federal Court then have your lawyer give me a call N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@reginald churchill "I seen no representatives for the English"

That why I just emailed Senator Cormier and his many cohorts as soon as I read it. Methinks everybody knows I will be calling Ottawa in short order N'esy Pas?

Marguerite Deschamps

@David Amos, why did you not go represent?

David Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks its rather obvious that I Just became aware of the nonsense today N'esy Pas?

Jim Moore @Roland Godin Meanwhile English only government jobs are posted in all french in an attempt to block English speakers from getting them and allowing only the french access to them, or how an English speakers french isn't perfect or have an accent so they can't get a job, yet the French speakers English is so bad you can barely understand them and they qualify as bilingual. The English person has to pass a written and oral exam in a lot of cases, and the french speaker will be asked a couple extremely simple questions in english and if they can answer them, even poorly they are considered bilingual, there is most certainly anti english discrimination in NB especially when it comes to government employment

reginald churchill

@Jim Moore ------excellent comment. I wish you would put this on the main comment section as this is what is really going on in New Bunswick

Jim Moore

@reginald churchill Its near impossible to get any comments up that CBC don't agree with in most cases, they will just disable them, it took three tries on this one. Even when they don't violate the rules or terms of service they still disable them constantly.

Roland Godin

@Jim Moore
Easy, insist that the testing be the English language and not the mostly now used basic, good to order a hot dog, U$ian dialect...EH!/Voilà.

David Amos

@reginald churchill "I seen only input from sanb."

Well I just got off the phone with Senator Cormier's office. His nice assistant and I discussed the email I just sent her bos. She informed me that their is nothing they can do in New Brunswick right now because their hearing in Moncton is done today but she promised that they would get back to me ASAP.

Methinks everybody knows why I won't hold y breath waiting for a call that quite likely will never come N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@Jim Moore "Its near impossible to get any comments up that CBC don't agree with in most cases"

Cry me a river

David Amos

@reginald churchill You are more than welcome sir. We are all in the same boat. Methinks its just another one of those things I do that you pal Mr Moore fails to appreciate N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@David Amos "Its near impossible to get any comments up that CBC don't agree with in most cases"

Methinks your lawyer pals should inform you that CBC is doing the right thing blocking you if you are trying to practice libel byway of their domain N'esy Pas?

Marguerite Deschamps

@Jim Moore; total BS !!!

 

Shawn McShane

Ex PC Premier Bernard Lord is Chief Executive Officer of Medavie. Medavie went to court to keep details of the ambulance contracts secret. The Liberals renewed the contract 2017. There is a similar case involving the Green Party of New Brunswick seeking information about the contract between the province and Shannex for privately run nursing homes. Justice Judy Clendening ruled in March that the contract details don't have to be released...in this crony place.

Shawn McShane

Bernard Lord is also another Université de Moncton alumni....

David Amos

@Shawn McShane Methinks you should try telling folks something that they didn't already know N'esy Pas?

Shawn McShane

@David Amos Methinks you could take your own advice N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@Shawn McShane Methinks I should inform you that I crossed paths with Bernie Lord's sister many moons ago when I became aware she was law professor in Moncton while her brother was the Premier I bet that is something you didn't know N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@Shawn McShane Methinks you must know how much I enjoy suing lawyers N'esy Pas?

Shawn McShane

@David Amos And what secret information did she give you about her brother?

David Amos

@Shawn McShane Nothing she just stuttered a lot when I spoke to her personally and refused to answer the emails I sent her in order to proved what I was telling her brother was true.

Jim Moore

@David Amos Did you consider people don't respond to your emails because you are constantly complaining about things that are outside their mandate or realm of authority, and that you are now seen as a professional agitator and from their perspective you are not taken seriously anymore, kind of like sovereign citizens, or the boy who cried wolf, It just seems you are offended or upset by almost everything. I wouldn't respond to you after a certain point either.

David Amos

@Jim Moore Methinks byway of your reply you must be one of the many people who read my emails However it is not my fault you don't understand them or me N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@Jim Moore Methinks you must know by now that I am a whistle blower about financial crimes and that although nobody loves me everybody loves their money. Furthermore you should not deny three things

# 1 Everything is political and its always about the money Ask the guy whose birthday many folks celebrate at Xmass time

# 2 Many people believe that the root of all evil is the love of money

## The Golden Rule for the "The Powers The Be" is "He With the Gold Makes the Rules" N'esy Pas?

  

Roland Godin

More or less 20% use of ambulance services could be life threatening emergencies and 20% are hospital socialisers, maybe it would be less expensive to pay the socialisers taxi fare and whatever the official language of choice...et voilà.

David Amos

@Roland Godin Methinks I said that yesterday N'esy Pas?

Marguerite Deschamps

@David Amos, you have a friend in Dr Richard, now you found another one; Roland.

Shawn McShane

@Roland Godin ANB says it cancels transfers when they are called to emergencies....
3 cancelled ambulance pickups leaves family of 87-year-old worried...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/stuart-lyons-moncton-hospital-ambulance-new-brunswick-transfer-1.4822029

David Amos

@Shawn McShane Methinks you don't know where they have sold our used ambulances and who makes the big score N'esy Pas?

Shawn McShane

@David Amos Malleys?

David Amos

@Shawn McShane Trinidad

 

David Amos

@Shawn McShane Methinks you have no idea who is a BIG stakeholder in the this nonsense N'esy Pas?

Shawn McShane

@David Amos Who?

David Amos

@Shawn McShane Methinks I should give ya clue that an EMT who was running for public office years ago gave me N'esy Pas?

Who owns a lot of numbered companies registered in New Brunswick?

Roland Godin

@Shawn McShane
I have requested from my health services professionals to stretch to it's limits office and hospital rendez-vous, and in the language de mon choix,
we could all make an effort( spells the same in les deux langues officielles)...EH!/Voilà.

Shawn McShane

@David Amos Empire

David Amos

@Shawn McShane BINGO

 

Mario Doucet

The senate report is so far out to lunch it's not even funny. Look at the last election and the clinging on of the liberal party, disgusting. There is absolutely no language harmony in NB.

Shawn McShane

@Mario Doucet New Brunswick can "serve as a model for the provinces and territories."

When in fact the provinces and territories should be looking at NB as a specimen of what not to do. The guy is out to lunch.

David Amos

@Shawn McShane Methinks Senator Cormier and his cohorts wants to forget that i sent him this file out of the gate as soon as he was sworn in.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right

 

Bernard McIntyre

I am tired of hearing this argument of anglophone and francophone. There are more race's of people in N.B than these two race's. Every one is supposed to be equal. This is 2018 not the 18th , 19th ,20th but the 21st century. We have the technology for translation devices for many languages for which N.B has not just anglophone and francophone. Are these race's of people other than anglophone and francophone 2nd class citizen's in N.B? This seems to be the case here. Stop living in the past which seems to be going on and live in the present and for the future and stop all this divisive arguments over who has the rights of languages. Every race of people have rights.

David Amos

@Bernard McIntyre Methinks you should check out my comments before they go "Poof" N'esy Pas?

 cheryl wright

we need a leader not a student. stop the studies and start taking actions. we have had enough studies and reviews on this. we all know what needs to be done. be like nike and just do it

 

David Amos

@cheryl wright I agree

Roland Godin

"I don't think you can put a dollar sign to health-care and emergency services and upset families when ambulances aren't showing up at the door," Wilson said.

Politicians don't, however nowhere to find responsable and accountable legislators, with riqueur, would face all issues with rationality and discernment...et voilà.

David Amos

@Roland Godin C'est Vrai

 
Johnny Horton

There is nothing wrong with the Nb ambulance system. There is no shortage.

What there is a logistic problem enhanced by paramedics delivering and waiting for appointments, and transfers between facilities done by paramedics when they aren’t needed for the transfer.

Simply set up a transport system for those that don’t need medical care while being transferred, leave the paramedics to do their actual job. Transporting and responding to emergency situations,

David Amos

@Johnny Horton Yea Right Methinks that is all we need another bureaucracy overseen by Bernie Lord and his cohorts N'esy Pas?

Johnny Horton

@David Amos

If you sre in a nursing home and need say chemo. An ambulance delivers you, waits and returns you to the home.

If you live in your home, and not on some health program, you get yourself to the appointment and back. Drive, friends taxi waster,

The point is, yes nursing home people need to get there and should be delivered. However it doesn’t require trained paramadeics to do it. It doesn’t require an ambulance.

Yes, there will be nursing home cases thst do require such, on oxygen, bed ridden, and yes those are the ones the ambulances should be used for.

All the others simply need a driver.

David Amos

@Johnny Horton Methinks some folks know that I suggested the use of taxis yesterday for such things for a couple of reasons

# 1 a taxi would be far cheaper than paying Medavie for the service

# 2 I don't know of a taxi that has linguistic issues if you have money for the fare N'esy Pas?

Johnny Horton

@David Amos

Ever tried to get a taxi in rural NB?

David Amos

@Johnny Horton Yes They are called gypsies

Johnny Horton

@David Amos

Can’t get a taxi where I live. Closest taxi is alMost two hours away.

Besides our health care shouldn’t be st the whim of the private sector and wanting to serve someone or not.

Transfers and appointment deliveries deserve reliable controlled service, in the language of choice of the passenger as per the charter of rights.

And I’m English and can’t sprak a word of French.

David Amos 

@Johnny Horton Methinks if you are a true Hillbilly like I am then you should know who your local Gypsy Cab is Nesy Pas?

BTW To settle another dispute with you If you were to ask the former MLA Brian MacDonald he would be quick to agree with me that Canadian troops from this area were involved in the War of 1812 and that Canadians helped the Brits torch the White House and a large part of Washington on August 24, 1814 just like Trump said. That was about 5 months before the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815.

Trust that I don't care what a Yankee with the same name as you claim to have sang about one battle. Nobody has figured out who won the war yet

David Amos

@Johnny Horton "Can’t get a taxi where I live. Closest taxi is alMost two hours away."

PURE D BS

Johnny Horton

@David Amos

Canada didn’t exist until 1867. Canadians didn’t exist until 1867.

As for Mr. Macdonald, I wouldn’t give him the time of day. Despise his ethics on relationships

David Amos

@Johnny Horton Methinks you should ask some Quebecers how long Canada has existed. Even the former Governor General David Johnston named the French man when he took his job as the vice regal Representative for the Queen who is very same the Lady I have been suing since 2015 N'esy Pas?

Johnny Horton

@David Amos

Any quebecers I know would edeny Canada ever existed and want nothin* to do with it.

Yet I’m English only and wel still get along!

David Amos

@Johnny Horton Yea Right

Johnny Horton

@David Amos

Yea... cause it’s completely inconceivable to have friends thst don’t speak English.

NB doesn’t have a language issue problem. It ha s a tolerance issue. On both sides.

David Amos

@Johnny Horton Speak for yourself

Johnny Horton

@David Amos

Thanks for proving my point...

David Amos

@Johnny Horton Nope It s just that you have no idea who my friends are

Methinks you still don't even know who I am because you do not have the presence of mind to research someone before you attack them. This is just a game to you but I am as serious as a heart attack. Trust that many people can't imagine a place in NB that is 2 hours from medical care let alone a Taxi. I bet you don't even live here N'esy Pas?

Johnny Horton

@David Amos

Name the closest official taxi company to
- Miscou Island
-Deer Island
- highway between plaster Rock and Renous,

David Amos

@Johnny Horton No way you live in all 3 places and methinks you never heard of a New Brunswick phone book You must be from Quebec N'esy Pas?

Here ya go and BTW I have no doubt all 3 have Gypsy Cabs

Miscou Island Taxi Cormier Ltée

Deer Island Coastal Taxi

Plaster Rock Dan's Taxi

  

David Amos

Hmmm Yesterday the liberal lawyer McKee said "We're not going to show up here with a unilateral decision on what to do,"

However isn't that his boss Gallant has been doing for the past 4 years? If anyone wishes to recall Gallant and his cop buddies had fun avoiding the paramedic protesters in in a effort not to deal with their concerns during his election campaign.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/paramedics-liberal-campaign-riverview-1.4829661

Methinks lawyers such as Gallant only change their mind when they lose the wicked game they were playing N'esy Pas?

  

David Amos

Methinks all the politicians know that I made certain that Gallant and all there other party leaders were well aware of what I said on Oct 12th during a hearing of Matter 357 in the EUB. The matter began in June of 2017 but it was adjourned until after this election despite my strong opposition.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/eub-hearing-nb-power-rate-design-smart-meters-1.4305685

The 357 and the following 375 were about NB Power's plans for smart meters and billing rates going forward in order to meet a 20% equity target. Whereas the liberals big campaign promise pertained to freezing NB Power rates just like the Conservatives did years ago in order to get elected I was surprised to see that it was not included in the Throne Speech. As the CBC dude said no doubt many people voted for the liberals for that one reason alone.

Methinks nobody should be surprised as to why I shook my head as the liberal lawyer McKee double talked his way around a very direct question about freezing the power rates as we head into winter N'esy Pas?

Anybody can see that the Green Party rules the liberals for a little while at least

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-rate-freeze-gallant-****-1.4859687

Johnny Horton

@David Amos

This has absolutely nothing to do with ambulance e serviced and has been reported.

As well an official complaint has been filed with CBC head office k Sr your discriminatory and insulting use of nesy pas?

David Amos

@Johnny Horton Methinks you should listen to the political panel yapping that is offered in the article N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@Johnny Horton "As well an official complaint has been filed with CBC head office k Sr your discriminatory and insulting use of nesy pas?"

So it was you who made the malicious complaint against me that caused my account to go down for one day this week until I raised hell.

Methinks you should talk to CBC lawyers ASAP I know I have in the past and emailed them as well and received answers in writing. Nobody would tell me what was this week but now I know N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@Johnny Horton "As well an official complaint has been filed with CBC head office k Sr your discriminatory and insulting use of nesy pas?"

Methinks turnabout is fair play now I have every right to make a complaint about you and/or whatever your name truly is N'esy Pas?

Johnny Horton

@David Amos

Wasn’t me,
Glad to know though there are s bunch of us sick of your polluting and needing to respond to every post.

I congratulate shomever it was!

David Amos

@Johnny Horton Methinks you are way past too late N'esy Pas?

David Amos

Methinks in the spirit of full disclosure if I were allowed to vote on Nov 2nd It would be in support of the Throne Speech and all the Party Leaders know why but the electorate does not and they don't care anyway N'esy Pas?

Emery Hyslop-Margison

I may not agree with all of Higgs politics, but rest assured given his lengthy career working for the Irving companies he is a man of action. That element in itself may offer a refreshing change from the Neo-liberals referring everything for study so they can appoint their political friends as consultants.

David Amos

@Emery Hyslop-Margison Methinks you would have a different take on Mr Higgs if you watched he and I argue his actions against the pensioners funds in Hampton NB in 2015 right I debated his lawyer buddy Rob Moore for the Fundy Royal seat in the 42nd Parliament N'esy Pas?

Emery Hyslop-Margison

@David Amos You simply confirm my point with the reference to "his actions". Read more carefully David, I qualified the observation with a political caveat.

David Amos

@Emery Hyslop-Margison "his lengthy career working for the Irving companies he is a man of action"

Methinks the former COR party dude is a man of action for the people who abuse us on a daily basis Clearly I offer no caveat whatsoever He can feel free to try and sue me N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@Emery Hyslop-Margison Furthermore Gallant did offer him a job after the election in 2014 and Higgs considered working for the liberals. Remember the recent debates and his affidavit?

David Amos

@Emery Hyslop-Margison FYI It was beneath Higgs to participate but I spoke out of the gate and talked about the questionable actions of Mr Higgs

2018 New Brunswick Provincial Election Saint John Region Candidate Messages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZqArRNshSM&t=2200s

 

Shawn McShane

@Emery Hyslop-Margison If you worked for Irving you would be a man that takes orders. You park your manhood at the door and say "Yes master."

Rosco holt

@Emery Hyslop-Margison
"That element in itself may offer a refreshing change from the Neo-liberals referring everything for study so they can appoint their political friends as consultants."

You're kidding right, the conservatives did the same things has liberals(hiring political friends) and having worked for Irving only means Irving will get what they want allot faster.

David Amos

@Rosco holt True

David Amos

@Shawn McShane I agree

Mario Doucet

60 years of OB and NB is still having problems even worse than they were then. Dismal failure of social engineering.

David Amos

@Mario Doucet I concur

Johnny Horton

@Mario Doucet

Because government failed in sixty years of kids to make them bilingual, does not mean OB itself is a failure.

It speaks for more of their management of the education system, than anything about language.

Natalie Pugh

@Johnny Horton Official Bilingualism is nothing but a failed experiment. It will never work. There is no close balance in numbers between Francophones and Anglophones in NB and in todays modern world it is absurd to keep up the charade.

Johnny Horton

@Natalie Pugh

Natalie, it’s never going away, ever. There is no way the constitution and charter will ever be changed.

So we can continue to fight, or we can work to exist together and be bilingual. I pick the letter considering OB isn’t going anywhere.

Rosco holt

@Mario Doucet
NB always had problems, this long before OB. It comes down to the politicians running the province and their decisions.

They are all self-serving and those who actually work for NBers get axed swiftly.

David Amos

@Johnny Horton Yea Right

David Amos

@Rosco holt "They are all self-serving and those who actually work for NBers get axed swiftly."

YUP

 
Matt Steele

Our incompetent boy wonder Brian Gallant is about to get dumped out of the Premier's chair in a few days . Hopefully Higg's can clean up Gallants mess . Every thing in N.B. seems to be in crisis now after four years of Gallants mismanagement .

David Amos

@Matt Steele Methinks that is a rather interesting remark to come from a fan of the NDP Perhaps you have turned coat like Mr Cardy N'esy Pas?

 
Paul Bourgoin

Is it the tough Conservatives who voice their aggressive agenda or are their Political Financial Supporters are those who are holding and supporting their hand?

David Amos

@Paul Bourgoin Methinks we all know what Clan is behind Mr Higgs and his cohorts N'esy Pas?

 
Lloyd Joslin

They will dovwhat ever the 120 acadian leaders tell them

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David Amos

@Lloyd Joslin Mais oui, bien sûr

David Amos

@Lloyd Joslin It appears to be so

 
Colin Seeley

It will serve Ex-Premier Lord right if this Medavie Contract is cancelled.

Poetic justic for what he did to remove the “ toll booths “ on the TCH !

David Amos 

@Colin Seeley Methinks you forgot that all the politicians secretly support Bernie's shadow tolls N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/province-rejected-removal-of-shadow-tolls-on-fredericton-moncton-hwy-1.718431

"Last year, Maritime Road Development Corporation, which manages the four-lane, 200-kilometre highway, proposed replacing the current, traffic-based toll system with a lump sum payment, according to documents obtained by CBC News under the provincial Right to Information Act.

Currently, the provincial government, and thereby taxpayers, pays a toll for every vehicle that travels down the highway, based on counts from electronic sensors. The money from the so-called shadow tolls, which were introduced in 2000 under then-premier Bernard Lord to replace tolls for drivers, is funnelled through a government-held company to corporate lenders that hold the debt for the project.

MRDC, which counts and calculate the tolls, estimated the change could save $10 million over 20 years. It said it would split the savings with the province.

Premier Shawn Graham's government disagreed. It felt any savings would be cancelled out by the costs of reopening the complex loan agreements for the highway project."








 
Buford Wilson

Blaine will clear up the Medivie fiasco. Quickly and efficiently.

Be in this place.

David Amos

@Buford Wilson Dream on

David Amos

Whereas the PC MLA Mary Wilson is featured in this article I should inform folks that I met her personally when she walked into my abode without knocking in 2011 or so and definitely long before she and I ran in this election. She was hustling contributions for Canadian Federation of Independent Business . When I tried to discuss the same politics her organization yaps about she could not get away from me fast enough claiming she was busy and had a new vehicle to pay for. Need I say her association never answered my emails or returned my calls either? So much for their integrity eh?

Methinks I have every right to not respect whatever the CFIB president Dan Kelly has had to say to the Power That Be in NB or on CBC when he considers me not worth talking to N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/jobs-nb-business-1.3343304

"The president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says a survey of its membership reveals 5,600 jobs currently vacant. Dan Kelly is in Fredericton to meet with government and industry groups."

The same holds true for whatever the local CFIB dude has to say about what Trudeau and NB Power are up to lately.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/carbon-tax-new-brunswick-1.4874352

"Louis-Philippe Gauthier, director of provincial affairs in New Brunswick for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, said the tax will directly impact small businesses.

"It's going to have an impact, that's for sure," he said, adding the rebate programs likely won't make up the difference.

He also wants to know whether there will be any impact on power rates. "

David Amos 

@David Amos Years later I shook my head when Wilson became the replacement for Keith Ashfield a dude I went to High School with and battled with politically a lot since 2004 after I was illegally barred from parliamentary properties by his cohorts.. However during this election Mary Wilson did answer an email of mine but refused to call me back after her and her old COR pals figured out who I was.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-former-cor-mla-vote-splitting-election-1.4832078

"Max White has seen this movie before — and he says it doesn't have a happy ending for conservative-leaning rural voters fed up with the Liberals.

White, one of eight MLAs elected with the Confederation of Regions, or CoR party, in 1991, is campaigning hard for the Progressive Conservatives, warning voters that supporting the People's Alliance will mean splitting the vote and electing Liberals."

Today I listened to Wilson on this podcast methinks anyone should understand why I chuckled listening to her talk oh so tough to a liberal lawyer and then made so many comments about this article. Need I say that as I reviewed the comments I find it very strange that the only blocked comment of mine contained 4 polite French words in agreement with another person's English words and nothing more N'esy Pas?











David Amos

Why would this news to anyone?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-liberal-caucus-leadership-1.4880817

20 Liberal MLAs put support for Brian Gallant in writing

Caucus members sign letter saying they'll support Gallant's leadership into next election

CBC News · Posted: Oct 26, 2018 7:39 PM AT 

New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant has the signed support of his caucus. (Michel Corriveau/Radio-Canada)

All 20 members of Brian Gallant's Liberal caucus signed a letter in support of his continued leadership after he threatened to resign before the throne speech this week, CBC News has learned.

The letter is addressed to the party's provincial executive and says MLAs want Gallant to lead the party, even into the next election.

• Gallant banks on throne speech gamble to draw opposition support

• Higgs would give Medavie a week to propose fix for ambulance service

MLAs signed the letter after Gallant said he would resign as leader on Monday, Oct. 22, just a day before the speech from the throne.

Gallant said he would continue as leader on the condition the entire caucus promised to support his leadership, regardless of the results of an upcoming confidence vote in the legislature, and into the next election.

Our caucus is united behind our leader as we move forward in the hopes of receiving the confidence of the legislature.- Liberal caucus statement

In the provincial election Sept. 24, no party was a clear winner. The Progressive Conservatives won 22 seats, the Liberals won 21 and the Green Party and the People's Alliance each took three.

Leadership review

According to Article 16.1 of the New Brunswick Liberal Association's constitution, if the party fails to win a majority or form a government, an automatic meeting of the board of directors must take place within three months of the election to decide whether to trigger a leadership review.

The Liberal association issued a written statement Friday on Gallant's leadership.

"Our caucus is united behind our leader as we move forward in the hopes of receiving the confidence of the legislature," the statement said.

The legislature will vote on the government's speech from the throne on Friday, Nov. 2. If it doesn't pass, Lt.-Gov. Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau is expected to ask PC Leader Blaine Higgs to form a government.

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 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/senate-official-languages-report-moncton-1.4877872

Despite flareups, province deemed a model for country in Senate language-law review

Committee looking to modernize federal Official Languages Act points to province as example to follow

Shane Magee · CBC News · Posted: Oct 26, 2018 5:00 AM AT

Sen. René Cormier, left, speaks with Sen. Rose-May Poirier. Both are members of a Senate committee studying the federal Official Languages Act. (CBC)

A Senate committee studying Canada's Official Languages Act released a report Thursday in Moncton that points to New Brunswick as an example for the rest of the country when it comes to language.

The standing committee on official languages is holding a national review of the 50-year-old law that ensures the federal government provides services to English and French-speaking people in the language of their choice. The committee released the report in the middle of three days of hearings that began Wednesday.

René Cormier, the chair of the committee and an Independent senator from New Brunswick, said the province has come up during the hearings since the work began last year.

René Cormier, chair of the Senate's committee studying the federal Official Languages Act, says New Brunswick can serve as an example for the rest of the country in dealing with language issues. (CBC)

"What we've heard from Canadians all over the country is that we should recognize the specificity of New Brunswick as the only officially bilingual province in Canada and the legislative tools that New Brunswick has to help the vitality of the communities," Cormier said.

The committee's report, the second of five as it studies the federal law that applies only to federal institutions, says the province can "serve as a model for the provinces and territories."

That comes after tensions around language flared during the provincial election, mostly because of concerns about ambulance service.

Whether bilingualism requirements for paramedics has affected staffing at Ambulance New Brunswick continues to be debated as the legislature resumed this week.

• Divisive bilingualism debate rears its head in N.B. election campaign

• 'We need to protect diversity,' Acadian leader says

• Departing language watchdog urges MLAs to explode myths that stoke prejudice

But the contrast between seeing New Brunswick as a model and the ongoing tensions in the province wasn't something Cormier wanted to discuss.

"It's the elected people that are responsible for the next steps in New Brunswick," he said. "This report, which deals with issues concerning official languages throughout Canada, is a great tool that can help all Canadians, including New Brunswickers, to think about the importance of official languages in our country and the richness of this reality in New Brunswick."

Éric Dow, a spokesman for the Société de l'Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick, said the province has gone through periods where language tensions have flared up in its past.

Éric Dow, a spokesman for the Société de l'Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick, says the province has gone through periods of language tensions in the past, and both francophones and anglophones want good jobs, schools and health care. (CBC)

"If there's one thing history has taught us, it's that these kinds of flames tend to die out once calmer heads prevail," Dow said.

He said both linguistic communities want similar things: good jobs, schools and health care.

"I think we can say that New Brunswick's history is one that tends towards a greater equality between both linguistic communities, and I can't see why that wouldn't be the case going forward."

The committee's report summarized input from hearings from across the country.

A Senate committee released an interim report in Moncton as part of its review of the federal Official Languages Act. (CBC)

The recommendations include equitable representation of anglophones and francophones in the federal public service, strengthening the powers of the official languages commissioner, making bilingualism a requirement for appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada, and a series of other changes.

The report is one of several the committee is expected to release before a final report in 2019 that will make specific recommendations to the federal government.

Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the Official Languages Act.

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Despite flareups, province deemed a model for country in Senate
language-law review

Committee looking to modernize federal Official Languages Act points
to province as example to follow
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Tories continue tough Medavie talk with threat of cancelling ambulance contract

Liberal throne speech was the topic for this edition of the Political Panel Podcast

CBC News · Posted: Oct 26, 2018 6:14 AM AT 

A PC government says it would give Medavie Health Services six months to improve Ambulance New Brunswick. (Catherine Allard/Radio-Canada)


Listen to the full CBC New Brunswick Political Panel podcast by downloading from the CBC Podcast page or subscribing to the podcast in iTunes.

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A Tory government would give Medavie Health Services six months to improve the provincial ambulance service or cancel its contract with the New Brunswick government, according to a Progressive Conservative MLA.

Newly elected Mary Wilson announced the proposed deadline Thursday, the same day PC Leader Blaine Higgs announced the Ambulance New Brunswick operator would get a week to find a solution for the paramedic shortage and ambulance delays.

The clock would start on both timelines the day Higgs becomes premier, assuming the Liberal throne speech is defeated and the Tories can gain the confidence of the House to form government.

• Higgs would give Medavie a week to fix ambulance service

• Bilingual ambulance service dominates 1st question period of new legislature

• Gallant banks on throne speech gamble to draw opposition support

"They've got to prove to New Brunswickers they've produced better services," Wilson, the MLA for Oromocto-Fredericton-Lincoln, said on the CBC New Brunswick Political Panel Podcast.

Wilson could not say what the measuring stick would be for Medavie to show their services have improved, but she did say the government would take on any financial penalty for breaking the contract as well as the extra costs of absorbing the ambulance service — and perhaps extra-mural care, she said — into the public system.

PC MLA Mary Wilson said the Tories would give Medavie a six-month leash to right the ship. (CBC)

"I don't think you can put a dollar sign to health-care and emergency services and upset families when ambulances aren't showing up at the door," Wilson said.

What began as a broad discussion of Tuesday's Liberal throne speech turned into how government can resolve an underperforming ambulance service and navigate the associated language issue.

The Liberals promised in their speech to send the issue to an all-party committee of MLAs for recommendations and report back by Dec. 15 — a reasonable amount of time to dissect a complex issue in a collaborative manner, said Liberal MLA Robert McKee.

• 'Not all doom and gloom': Health minister defends ambulance service

"We're not going to show up here with a unilateral decision on what to do," McKee said.

People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin said the issue needs to be addressed immediately and another study further delays taking action. He said the throne speech was littered with reviews and studies and committees to examine various issues.

The Political Panel from CBC News New Brunswick

Oct. 25: Parties haggle over Liberal government's throne speech

00:00 47:14

Premier Brian Gallant's minority government unveiled its throne speech this week, packed with commitments intended to win support from other political parties. Liberal MLA Robert McKee, PC MLA Mary Wilson, Green Leader David Coon and People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin joined the weekly panel./ 47:14

"When I see that stuff, I cringe," Austin said. "I was elected to make change, to help drive that change. What I don't want to see is just more paperwork or studies to go in a great warehouse of government studies to collect dust."

Green Party Leader David Coon said Medavie has had years to show improvement and offer appropriate bilingual services, but the company that "profits off our health-care system" has failed to do so.

He said it's time to bring ambulances and extra-mural care back into the public system. He said the regional authorities have shown they can offer health services in both official languages and "they can make this work."

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/higgs-throne-speech-reply-gallant-ambulances-1.4878855

Higgs would give Medavie a week to fix ambulance service

Tory leader talks tough in reply to throne speech

CBC News · Posted: Oct 25, 2018 7:31 PM AT 

Progressive Leader Leader Blaine Higgs delivered his reply to the Liberal throne speech on Thursday. (CBC)

Finding a solution to the paramedics shortage and ambulance delays will be the first priority for a Progressive Conservative government, Blaine Higgs said Thursday while trying to persuade the legislative assembly to kick the Liberals out of power.

In his reply to the speech from the throne, the PC leader outlined the first steps he would take as premier, while also introducing a motion that's effectively a non-confidence vote ahead of next Friday's vote on the Liberal speech.

• Gallant banks on throne speech gamble to draw opposition support

• Bilingual ambulance service dominates 1st question period of new legislature

Higgs spent much of his 25-minute address criticizing how the Brian Gallant Liberals governed over the past four years, how he'd go about it differently and how a Tory throne speech would be a more concise "action list" instead of the far-reaching "shopping list" read to the assembly earlier this week.
"To have 85 priorities is to have none," Higgs said.

Top of list for the Tory leader is the thorny issue of bilingual ambulance services. Higgs pledged, if he were to assume power, to bring in Medavie Health Services, the company that runs Ambulance New Brunswick, on Day 1 and give it a  week to put forth solutions.

Higgs said he will prioritize the paramedics shortage and ambulance delays if he takes power. (CBC)

"Time for talk is done," Higgs said in a media scrum.

"We've got reams of recommendations from paramedics, from the association, from Medavie. So it's time to put those recommendations in the same room with bright people, and that includes political leaders, and hammer this out."

The Liberals promised in their speech to send the issue to an all-party committee of MLAs for recommendations and report back by Dec. 15, but both Higgs and People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin said directing it to a committee will further delay a fix.

We do have solutions from the paramedics' association,  Medavie  has kicked out a few ideas, let's get it done. - People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin

Even Higgs's seven-day timeline appears to be too long for Austin's taste. He doesn't believe more consultation is necessary.

"I think we all know what the problem is here. We do have solutions from the paramedics' association, Medavie has kicked out a few ideas, let's get it done," Austin told reporters.

Liberal Environment Minister Andrew Harvey said Higgss' deadline for Medavie is at odds with the collaborative tone parcelled out through his speech.

Liberal MLA Andrew Harvey said the all-party committee will deliver recommendations on the ambulance delays issue that government can on "immediately" after Dec. 15. (CBC)

"There's no collaboration there," Harvey said. "All four parties need to work together, and that's why we believe these committee structures are the best way."

Harvey said once the committee reports back in six weeks, the government can act "immediately."

Motion of non-confidence

Higgs's reply to the throne speech underscored the precarious tenure of the Liberal government. He finished with a proposed amendment that would tell the lieutenant-governor the "present government does not have the confidence of this House."

A vote on his motion won't happen until late next week. If passed, it would amend the main Liberal motion supporting the throne speech. Passage of the amended main motion would bring down the government.

The Liberals will go back and run this executive branch the same way and the opposition  MLAs  can go study a few of their ideas in committee. - PC Leader Blaine Higgs

The Tory motion is similar to what the NDP in British Columbia introduced to oust the Liberals.

The Liberals, reduced to just 20 votes in the 49-seat legislature after MLA Daniel Guitard was acclaimed Speaker on Tuesday, need at least four opposition MLAs to break ranks and support the speech.

Higgs has already said his 22 MLAs will vote against it, leaving the Liberals' fate in the hands of three Green and three Alliance members.

The Tories would also need help from the other parties to pass a throne speech.

A new way of governing

Higgs attacked the Gallant Liberals for their governing style, saying power was centralized through the premier's office and the legislature sittings were just "an annoyance." He said the throne speech offered no signs that would change.

"The Liberals will go back and run this executive branch the same way and the opposition MLAs can go study a few of their ideas in committee and the Liberals will decide if any of those ideas go forward," Higgs said in his reply.

The PC Leader has sent the other parties a list of proposals to change how the legislature operates. He didn't go into detail about the proposal but hinted in his speech about a new committee structure and new policy that would give MLAs more agency and bring power back to the House.

Green Party Leader David Coon said there was a 'huge gap' in Higgs's speech — action on climate change. (CBC)

Green Leader David Coon was torn on Higgs's speech Thursday, saying he liked the notion of bring democracy and independence back to the legislature.

Higgs's lack of a firm stance on climate change troubled Coon, however. The PC Leader said he was willing to hear ideas to build up the provincial economy, be it through the blue economy or green economy.

Coon said that's "disconcerting."

With files from Catherine Harrop and Jacques Poitras

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