A Triple Header of Mr Higgs in CBC after Mindless Minister Cardy spoke first thing in the morning

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David Raymond Amos‏ @DavidRayAmos 

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Methinks all politicians thinks they can have our cake and eat it too N'esy Pas?

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/david-coon-green-party-fracking-higgs-carbon-plan-1.4934761

Fracking and a carbon plan: You can't do both, says Green leader

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David Amos

Methinks all politicians thinks they can have our cake and eat it too N'esy Pas?







 
Cory Kamermans

**** is a flip flopper, He rails against the liberals for four year and then votes in confidence of them, that shows his true colour and it is not Green. I am no fan of Higgs either but at least give him a chance to attempt to pull this province out of the quagmire it's in. I doubt he will succeed but he might as well give it a go.

Robert Brannen 

@Cory Kamermans

Quite likely he won't succeed.

"Even so, he warned that his first capital budget next week will mark a departure from four years of what he called 'haphazard' Liberal spending on infrastructure." -- CBC reporting on Finance Minister Ernie Steeves's up-date to the Liberal budget.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/budget-cuts-threaten-infrastructure-repair-plan-1.1197569

What is it that you say of someone who tries the same thing over and over while expecting a different outcome?







  

Harold Benson

Mr **** is will be premier some day, if he doesn't quit out of frustration, but he seems pretty level headed.

Jake Devries

@Harold Benson no he won't. Never

Marguerite Deschamps

@Harold Benson, Mr "whose name cannot be printed here" is the best leader of them all in Fredericton right now. He would make a great Premier.

Matt Steele

@Harold Benson .....It will NEVER HAPPEN . Just last week a member of the Green Party was comparing Anglophones to N_zis . The Green Party will be completely eliminated in the next election .

Colin Seeley

@Marguerite Deschamps

DC would make a great Premier only if you are are rich enough like a Margelite to afford him and his lofty ideals .

Marc Martin

@Marguerite Deschamps

I agree with you on this.

Marc Martin

@Matt Steele

Nah he wasn't, he was making a comparison of quotes not the same, but we wouldn't expect an uneducated person to understand this...

David Raymond Amos‏ @DavidRayAmos 

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Surprise Surprise Surprise

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/federal-government-rejects-nb-request-1.4935106

Ottawa rejects Higgs's request to delay carbon plan for industry

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David Amos

Surprise Surprise Surprise

Mark (Junkman) George

@David Amos

From last weekend:
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/banana-republic

Kind of sounds like NB?

  






Matt Steele

Trudeau is a lot like Brian Gallant......tax , tax , tax , and more tax . Maybe the same thing will happen to Trudeau as as happened to Gallant ; and it will be BYE BYE Justin in next year's Federal election .

Marc Martin

@Matt Steele

You didn't comment on the other article that said that Gallant left Higgs with 57 million less on the debt...

David Amos

@Marc Martin Who cares?

Jeff LeBlanc

@Matt Steele except that Trudeau said "vote for me and I will tax and run up the debt" and people voted for him and he is living up to his promise. A lot of people forget the platform he ran on, he never once said he would not raise taxes, in fact he said get ready for higher ones. #shortmemories

Marc Martin

@David Amos

Your right who cares...

Paul Bourgoin

@David Amos
New Brunswick Residents and their Families!!

Lewis Taylor

@Matt Steele
Why not just state that you are a die hard PC instead of spreading fake stuff.

Marguerite Deschamps

@David Amos, if only we had Charlie Van Horne. He cared!

David Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks you should ask yourself why your SANB buddy Mr Martin posted the same two words here all day long and nobody cared N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/policy-711-changes-pc-government-1.4933975

Marc Martin

@David Amos

Says the blogger with 2 followers....

  

Ian Scott

And then we have PQ Legault already saying there is no "social license" for oil but wants to sell hydro like it screwed NFLD in past . And since Labrador now has a large hydro project it must be feeling a bit pinched perhaps. Meanwhile the OPEC tankers arrive in Levis and MTL.

Lewis Taylor

@Ian Scott
Quebec did not screw NFLD in the past. It was a deal accepted by both govts. NFLD signed willfully. The courts have ruled that is a fair and binding agreement. You can't sign an agreement and change your mind afterwards. People should stick to real facts and leave the alternative ones to the White house.

Roland Godin

@Ian Scott
Best we prepare to buy electricity from Churchill Fall predicted at 0,23 KW, that will show Québec...EH!

Marguerite Deschamps

@Lewis Taylor, Ian is taking sides just because he does not like Quebeckers, just like hockey fans either hate the Leafs or the Habs. His mind's already made up, don't confuse him with the facts.

David Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks you would be hard pressed to find many folks who like Quebeckers N'esy Pas?

Marc Martin

@David Amos

In need of attention again Davis ?

 

Mario Doucet

The federal government and the NB provincial government is a french make work project.

Marguerite Deschamps

@Mario Doucet, with a French name like yours, you should be happy eh?

David Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks just because he has a French name it does not follow that he should agree with your SANB agenda N'esy Pas?

Marc Martin

@Marguerite Deschamps

Its a fake French name...

Marc Martin

@David Amos

Who cares Davis....

David Raymond Amos‏ @DavidRayAmos 

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A Triple Header of Mr Higgs in CBC after Mindless Minister Cardy spoke first thing in the morning

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-triple-header-of-mr-higgs-in-cbc.html

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-deficit-spending-budget-1.4934813

Projected provincial deficit drops by $57M

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Alex Butt

I can not for the life of me understand how this province thinks! We have some of the worst roads, infrastructure etc, and they want to cut even more funding for that, yet still want to waste millions on the francophone games? Wake up New Brunswick before it is too late!

Marguerite Deschamps

@Alex Butt, the games must go on in order to entertain the mass.

Bob Smith

Given the news about the Francophone Games just released, I'd say the finances might turn back towards deficit once again. That'll be a thorn for anyone to deal with in the near future....

Marguerite Deschamps

@Bob Smith, yup, blame the Francophones. It's ok, we have wide shoulders.

Bob Smith

@Marguerite Deschamps Sorry, but when an event goes from 17 to 130 million dollars to stage, I'd blame whoever is in charge...English, French, doesn't matter.

Marguerite Deschamps

@Bob Smith, the games must go on in order to entertain the mass.

  
Marc Martin

There ya go now Higgs and the CoRservatives will give themselves credit for the Liberal governments doing...

Pierre LaRoches

@Marc Martin It's literally in the article that the new finance minister gave credit to the past government. You are getting worse.

David Amos

@Pierre LaRoches Methinks a lot of folks are wondering just how bad this dude will get N'esy Pas?

Marguerite Deschamps

@David Amos, nothing to worry about, David! You're still the all-time great No way he'll ever catch up to you

Lou Bell

@Marc Martin Comprehension problems ? Have someone to read it to you and then explain it !

Marc Martin

@Lou Bell

Who rang your *Bell* ?

  
Emilen Forest

How many civil servants are their reading these comments when they should be working.

Pierre LaRoches

@Emilen Forest most based on my experience as consultant. The offices are full of Internet browsing, slow rolling dead weight.

John O'Brien

@Pierre LaRoches You forgot "chronic complaining". Civil servants are as entitled as it gets. Medical personnel are the glowing exception.But nurses , lab techs, orderlies etc are professionals- they know their job is patient care and they don't quit. Most of the rest would rather complain than work- weak minded politicians keep civil service job offers for people they owe favors to; these people don't expect they will have to work as well.

Marc Martin

@Emilen Forest

At least they are working.....

David Amos

@Marc Martin Methinks you are working all day unless you are paid to produce spin N'esy Pas?

Lou Bell

@Marc Martin You claimed you were a civil servant, and yet you're here most all day ! That may change with Gallants SANB defeat.

Marc Martin

@David Amos

Cry me a river...

FlMarc Martin

@Lou Bell

Who rang your *Bell* again ?

  
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Alex Forbes

Still too high. Slash spending, pay off the deficit, then eliminate (or at least practically eliminate) taxes.

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Jake Devries

@Alex Forbes NB needs to get rid of hundreds of silly servants..we are the highest ration of PS to citizens in the country...

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Lewis Taylor

@Jake Devries
Agreed

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David Amos

@Alex Forbes Methinks I have explained another way many times and nobody cared N'esy Pas?

  
John O'Brien

I am convinced that Cathy Rogers doesn't know enough finance to balance her cheque book. She was just a mouthpiece for Gallant and Dominic Leblanc

Jeff LeBlanc

@Jake Devries this is the internet, back it up with proof please.

David Amos

@Jeff LeBlanc "this is the internet, back it up with proof please."

Trust that i know a thing or two about money and politicking

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

Marc Martin

@David Amos

Who cares...

  
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David Peters

It's petty how cbc obviously chooses unflattering images of non liberals...so one-sided.

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David Amos

@David Peters Its easy to understand why it ain't rocket science

  
Dave white

What a shame that the government will cut back on the capital budget so much.I saw so many roads bridges and buildings that have been fixed the last four years that were run down to the point of collapse .It is not a cost saving when the government will not do maintenance in a timely manner ,it always costs more in the future than doing it now just due to inflation alone .The longer they put maintenance off the more it costs.

David Amos

@Dave white Methinks the fact they want to cut back on the road repair will insure their loss in the next election N'esy Pas?

Marc Martin

@David Amos

But ..hum..who cares..

 
Scott McLaughlin

I hope the liberals don't get back in power any time soon

David Amos

@Scott McLaughlin Methinks many folks would agree that they will be back in power as soon as the PANB and PC Party honeymoon is over N'esy Pas?

Marc Martin

@David Amos

Ah..ok..eh...who cares...cry more pls....

  
Robert Brannen

"Even so, he warned that his first capital budget next week will mark a departure from four years of what he called 'haphazard' Liberal spending on infrastructure." -- CBC reporting on Finance Minister Ernie Steeves's up-date to the Liberal budget.

Hmmm, deja vu all over again! Just a different person as Finance Minister this time.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/budget-cuts-threaten-infrastructure-repair-plan-1.1197569

David Amos

@Robert Brannen Good Point

  
Emilen Forest

In April of 2017 Gallant was bragging how the Liberal government increased minimum wage from $11.00 per hour to $11.25. If an employee worked 40 hours in a week their their net pay went from $380.60 to $387.91 a 1.9% increase. After entering this information on the CRA Payroll website I noticed the government coffers increased at a much higher rate. The income tax grab from low income earners increased 4.1% for provincial taxes and 5.4% for federal taxes.

Emilen Forest

@Emilen Forest

Remarkable that even with faced with fact some people cannot see any further than their own nose.

David Amos

@Emilen Forest Methinks the awful truth is most folks quite imply don't care the truth as they drink whatever kool aid their favourite politcal party serves and supporting media upon them N'esy Pas?

  
Mack Leigh

Could Jacques Poitras be anymore obvious as to his allegiance to the Liberals in all of his supposedly " unbiased " reporting ?? Wow, so much for journalistic integrity and neutrality ....

David Amos

@Mack Leigh Methinks this is no surprise to many folks N'esy Pas?

Emilen Forest

Perhaps New Brunswick taxpayers should stop footing the bill for feeding civil servants. I know first hand, every time a few of them get together for a meeting they have to eat and it's catered at our expense. Here in Fredericton, a minimum of $1000 per week, per department...per week!!! And that does not include Fredericton municipal employees.

For the life of me, it's bad enough they're overpaid for not working, end up with a gold plated pension and now we have to feed them. Ridiculous!!!

John Jude

@Emilen Forest

You must be talking about Ministers. There's no catering for the bottom of the barrel civil servants, even middle of the road civil servants. I too know "first hand".

Emilen Forest

@John Jude

Nope even the minions were at the trough.

Fracking and a carbon plan: You can't do both, says Green leader

Premier Blaine Higgs has said he's adopting the Liberals' 2016 carbon action plan

Elizabeth Fraser · CBC News · Posted: Dec 06, 2018 3:13 PM AT

Green Party Leader David Coon supports the 2016 carbon plan, but he's also leery that Premier Blaine Higgs won't meet the plan's target by 2030. (James West/Canadian Press)


The new Progressive Conservative government says it wants to lift the moratorium on fracking in the Sussex-area and stick to the Liberal government's 2016 plan of transitioning to a lower carbon economy.

But it can't do both, says Green Party Leader David Coon.

"That's going to add a considerable amount of greenhouse gas into the system and, of course, go into the other direction of fossil fuels, making us more dependant than ever," Coon said in an interview with Information Morning Moncton.

"We need to remember that the ultimate target is to get off of fossil fuels."

At a news conference on Wednesday, Premier Blaine Higgs said he would be asking the federal government to put on hold plans to impose emissions regulations on industrial emitters in the province on Jan. 1.

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He also unveiled what he considers a "made-in-New Brunswick" plan to address climate change.

Higgs said the plan regulates large industrial emitters, without unfairly targeting businesses. At the same time, he vowed to meet New Brunswick's emissions-reductions goal for 2030. The premier did not, however, provides specifics on how the government would regulate industry.

Ottawa has since rejected Higgs's request to delay imposing a carbon pricing plan on industry.

'We've got work to do'

Higgs also claimed he would be adopting the Liberal government's 2016 plan, Transitioning To A Low Carbon Economy and has "no intention to re-invent the wheel."

Coon said fully implementing the plan that was developed under the previous government — based on recommendations from a select committee that Coon sat on — should enable New Brunswick to reach the target, which is 10.7 megatons of annual emissions by 2030.

PC Premier Blaine Higgs announced plans to ask the federal government to hold off on emissions regulations for the province. Ottawa has since rejected the request. 

The plan calls for a greater emphasis on renewable energy and a co-ordinated approach to energy efficiency in businesses and homes across the province.

Although Coon supports the plan if fully implemented, he's also worried that Higgs made no mention to the 2030 target at Wednesday's news conference.

The premier did mention the other emissions-reduction goal for 2030 of 14.1 megatons of carbon dioxide. That target is based on applying Canada's national reductions target under the Paris climate agreement.

The Liberals, however, adopted the more ambitious goal of 10.7 megatons.

The province has almost reached its 30 per cent reduction target — the 14.1-megatons goal — from 2005 levels.

Information Morning - Moncton

NB's climate change plan

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David Coon is the leader of the New Brunswick Green Party. He says the PC government's plan to adopt the Liberal government's plan would take the province in the right direction. 11:40

"It makes it seem like we don't have to do very much to achieve our objectives," Coon said.

"We need to get off fossil fuels and that means significant movement toward expanding our use of renewable energy."

Coon said the plan has also achieved very little since it was implemented two years ago but he's hopeful the Higgs government will implement the plan with a sense of urgency.

"We've got to get to work."

With files from Information Morning Moncton, Jacques Poitras

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Ottawa rejects Higgs's request to delay carbon plan for industry

The federal government carbon pricing plan for industry will kick in Jan. 1

Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Dec 06, 2018 2:36 PM AT

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs's request to delay the federal carbon pricing plan for industry that will go into effect in January has been rejected by Ottawa. (James West/Canadian Press)

 

The federal government is rejecting New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs's request that it delay imposing its carbon-pricing system on large industrial emitters next month.

Ottawa says New Brunswick missed a key deadline for filing an acceptable climate plan and that means its industrial levy will kick in on Jan. 1.

"New Brunswick's proposed system does not meet the federal benchmark stringency requirements," said Vincent Hughes, a spokesperson for federal Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc. 

"Therefore, the federal carbon pollution pricing system will apply in the province. For larger industrial facilities, an output-based pricing system will start applying in January 2019."

• Higgs asks feds to back off regulations for industrial emitters

• Projected provincial deficit drops by $57M

The rejection comes just as Higgs prepares for his first first ministers' meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other provincial and territorial premiers.

On Wednesday, Higgs unveiled what he called his new government's climate plan, though the three-page document had no details on how the Progressive Conservatives will regulate industrial emissions.

The previous Liberal government of Brian Gallant planned to allow Ottawa to apply its pricing system on industry in the province.

Premier Blaine Higgs announces the province's new climate change plan on Wednesday in Fredericton. (CBC)

That regime will measure industrial emissions sector-by-sector and will require plants that emit carbon dioxide above the average to pay a levy.

Higgs asked for Ottawa to postpone application of the levy to give him time to come up with an alternate model. He didn't say how he'd regulate emissions, but he did promise to meet reduction targets that match Canada's commitments under the Paris climate agreement.

The provinces had until Sept. 1 to submit plans that comply with the federal requirement for a higher cost on emissions for both consumers and industry.

Liberal plan rejected

New Brunswick's submission was filed by the Liberals and included adoption of the federal levy for industry.

But Ottawa officially rejected it Oct. 23 because the consumer part of the plan was a shift of existing gas tax revenue into a climate fund with no higher cost at the pump.

The federal carbon tax on consumers will be applied in New Brunswick next April. Federal estimates say it will cost an average New Brunswick family $207 more in 2019.

But Ottawa has pledged to rebate 90 per cent of what it collects in the recalcitrant provinces. It estimates an average New Brunswick family will get a rebate of $256.

Higgs said his government will challenge the federal government's jurisdiction, arguing it doesn't have the legal authority to impose a carbon tax on the province.

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Projected provincial deficit drops by $57M

Lower deficit would have 'happened regardless' of PC government taking power

Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Dec 06, 2018 12:46 PM AT

On Thursday, Finance Minister Ernie Steeves released a second-quarter update to the Liberal budget released in January. (Michel Corriveau/Radio-Canada)

The New Brunswick government is on track for a lower-than-projected deficit in the current fiscal year, Finance Minister Ernie Steeves revealed Thursday.

The new Progressive Conservative finance minister released a second-quarter update to the Liberal budget released in January.

It projects a deficit of $131.4 million for the current 2018-19 fiscal year, down from the $188.7 million originally forecast by then-Liberal finance minister Cathy Rogers.

That's mainly due to higher-than-expected revenue eclipsing a higher-than-forecast spending and isn't the result of any major policy changes by the four-week-old PC government, Steeves said.

"That's what would have happened regardless," he said.

Premier Blaine Higgs promised to balance the budget by 2020. (James West/Canadian Press)

Even so, he warned that his first capital budget next week will mark a departure from four years of what he called "haphazard" Liberal spending on infrastructure.

"We are serious about making decisions based on what we can afford and what's best for future generations," he said.

"We're very aware of New Brunswickers' priorities, supporting health care and education, but you will see a definite shift in focus with respect to our capital budget," Steeves added.

• PCs pledge to erase deficit in 2 years — without cuts to health or education

The capital budget is the province's spending plan for items such as roads, bridges and schools.

"I will not be delivering shopping list as we've seen in the past," Steeves said. "Instead there will be a definite focus on maintaining the infrastructure that we already have."

Balanced by 2020

The PCs have promised their second budget, due in 2020, will be balanced. Steeves said Thursday he could guarantee that will happen but he also said he'll try to get there even earlier, in his 2019-2020 budget expected in March.

Steeves said he's been meeting with departments to find savings and that will involve "hard choices … but you know, there are also great things coming from it. We're finding all sorts of new ideas and that outside-the-box thinking is awesome."

The 2018-19 update shows no major change in direction. The amount budgeted by the Liberals for the provincial rollout of early learning centres hasn't been reduced, even though Premier Blaine Higgs has said the program is under review.

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Spending is $94.4 million higher than budgeted, with most of that — $67.2 million — due to spring flooding. A large amount of that will be covered by the federal government.

Spending on disability services, child welfare, housing and seniors by the Department of Social Development is $36.6 million higher than expected.

On the revenue side, corporate and personal income taxes are bringing in more money than expected, as are federal transfer payments. But return on investments is down $45.6 million, mainly because NB Power profits are turning out to be lower than expected.

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