David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Methinks everybody knows why I am looking forward to being enlightened
as to who will run under Max's banner in Fundy Royal N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/maxime-bernier-applauds-higgss-call-for.html
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/maxime-bernier-applauds-higgss-call-for.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/maxime-bernier-saint-john-blaine-higgs-equalization-payments-1.4982399
Maxime Bernier applauds Higgs's call for cuts to equalization
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David R. Amos
Methinks everybody knows why I
am looking forward to being enlightened as to who will run under Max's
banner in Fundy Royal N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell
@David R. Amos You have some
good ideas, yet everything is about you . Not sure if this is how you
ATTEMPTED to run as a politician , but NO ONE cares for anyone RUNNING
FOR THERMSELVES . Not sure who you are, where you ran , how long ago it
was, or really even care . Time to get over oneself and just move on .
David R. Amos
@Lou Bell Methinks it should
be a small wonder to your political pals why I often think that we get
the governments we deserve N'esy Pas?
Bernard McIntyre
Politician's must really
think people are stupid. They always say great things to get into power
then seem to forget every thing they said when they get the power.
Lou Bell
@Bernard McIntyre Some
people seem to really have a problem with getting up off their rearends
and just working . Time to end handouts and do what the rest of the
country is doing . Develop our resources, create jobs , and quit being a
welafare province !!
Rosco holt
@Lou Bell
You believe the BS of politicians about shale gas?
We get nothing from royalties of our resources, we subsidize these businesses to extract/ harvest.
How many jobs are created, really?
Use your head, it isn't thousands of jobs that will be created, just a handful and it will not be NBers doing them.
And if an environmental disaster happen like contaminated well water crop up, who will be held responsible and pay?
Higgs, the business extracting shale or the people in that area.
Higgs will deny his responsibility and the same goes for the business.
You believe the BS of politicians about shale gas?
We get nothing from royalties of our resources, we subsidize these businesses to extract/ harvest.
How many jobs are created, really?
Use your head, it isn't thousands of jobs that will be created, just a handful and it will not be NBers doing them.
And if an environmental disaster happen like contaminated well water crop up, who will be held responsible and pay?
Higgs, the business extracting shale or the people in that area.
Higgs will deny his responsibility and the same goes for the business.
David R. Amos
@Bernard McIntyre "Politician's must really think people are stupid"
Methinks they are always betting on our apathy but every now and then their political plans fail and the elections do not yield the results they were hoping for N'esy Pas?
Methinks they are always betting on our apathy but every now and then their political plans fail and the elections do not yield the results they were hoping for N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
@Rosco holt Do you know how many times I ran in the Sussex area?
Rosco holt
@David R. Amos
No, I don't how many times you ran.
No, I don't how many times you ran.
David Stairs
no one should listen to this
arrogant politician...he got caught leaving government documents at his
so called girlfriends....this tells tons about his personality and what
he will do to get what he wants..I can't believe he is even allowed to
be a politician with his track record..
David R. Amos
@David Stairs Welcome back to the Circus
Toby Tolly
Did you have to pay to listen to him?
David R. Amos
@Toby Tolly Mais Oui
Fred Brewer
Vote for me and I will cut your transfer payments!
Wow. Great strategy there Maxime.
Wow. Great strategy there Maxime.
Tom Simmons
@Fred Brewer You give a poor
man a fish and you feed him for a day. You teach him to fish and you
give him an occupation that will feed him for a lifetime.
David R. Amos
@Tom Simmons Methinks the
fish are all but gone perhaps the west will sent us some beef that we
are not supposed to eat N'esy Pas?
Fred Brewer
@Tom Simmons
Yes until the cod industry collapsed along with salmon and other species.
Yes until the cod industry collapsed along with salmon and other species.
Marc Goudreau
Comparing Quebec's transfer
payments with NB's right to have an oil pipeline snake through La Belle
Province for the sake of "progress" is ludicrous. Energy East is another
oily, dirty, CO2 heavy investment in an industry largely responsible
for a coming ecological catastrophe, Higg's and Bernier, like Trump,
have no time for the future when greed and personal wealth are in
sight... shame.
Lou Bell
@Marc Goudreau Don't think
these guys are gonna make millions at their jobs, although McKenna bled
the system dry for his personal use. Better to have development than
continue being a welfare state , although you apparently disagree !
David R. Amos
@Lou Bell Cry me a river about your buddy McKenna Google his name and mine sometime
Marc LeBlanc
If you think you're appealing to peoples intelligence,you've come to the wrong place!
David R. Amos
@Marc LeBlanc Methinks you
should check out who he was appealing to The rich folks in the Fundy
area ain't dumb Even Wayne Long, would have to admit that fact N'esy
Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
What a dufus!
Rosco holt
@Marguerite Deschamps
That's the impression I get too.
That's the impression I get too.
David R. Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks he is a French lawyer as well N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
@David R. Amos, there are
good and bad lawyers as in any walk of life, be they French, English or
whatever. He's no J. J. Robinette, that's for sure! - Robinette, how
more French can one be!
Brian Dufoe
nobodys voting for mad Max,
his party exists for one reason only,
tax write offs.
his party exists for one reason only,
tax write offs.
David R. Amos
@Brian Dufoe Methinks many think Maxime is more popular than you think N'esy Pas?
Dr John Smythe
@Brian Dufoe Brian, you sound just like a Liberal party "agent provocateur"...
Douglas James
Simplistic is too simple a word for this politician's bizarre views.
Marguerite Deschamps
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Claude DeRoche
@Marguerite Deschamps
Higgs too :-)
Higgs too :-)
David R. Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps "I'm appealing to the intelligence of people," he said."
Methinks that must mean you N'esy Pas?
Methinks that must mean you N'esy Pas?
Rosco holt
God no, not another politician with an inflated ego.
I wonder if Higgs and/ or Bernier would cut their salaries and pensions the same way they want to cut equalization payments?
I wonder if Higgs and/ or Bernier would cut their salaries and pensions the same way they want to cut equalization payments?
Lou Bell
@Rosco holt Liberals took the payments an ran with them !
Rosco holt
@Lou Bell
At least the Libs didn't shoot their mouth by spewing stupidity like Higgs ny calling for cut to equalization payments like our blackmailing Irving-boy Premier.
The province has the most seniors and we need the cash, but he would prefer to risk NBers lives to develop fracking.
At least the Libs didn't shoot their mouth by spewing stupidity like Higgs ny calling for cut to equalization payments like our blackmailing Irving-boy Premier.
The province has the most seniors and we need the cash, but he would prefer to risk NBers lives to develop fracking.
David R. Amos
@Lou Bell Methinks you last
name dictates to me that you may be related to the Judge I met in
Federal Court on December 14th, 2015 At least the first judge Harper
ever appointed did the right thing N'esy Pas?
Claude DeRoche
The Irving Boy Higgs'
CORservative Party blackmailing New Brunswickers that if they don't
support fracking they will lose their equalization transfers that is
guaranteed in our Constitution !
MadMax will get the COR Party vote in October paving the way for another Trudeau victory!
MadMax will get the COR Party vote in October paving the way for another Trudeau victory!
Cindy Fordyce
@Claude DeRoche
If it walks like a duck and so on.... he does seem to care for anything but putting greed ahead of everything else.
If it walks like a duck and so on.... he does seem to care for anything but putting greed ahead of everything else.
Lou Bell
@Claude DeRoche Will he be able to get some of the SANB / Liberal vote ?":
David R. Amos
@Lou Bell Nope
Cindy Fordyce
@Lou Bell
Why the heck would anybody with more brain cells than Max vote for him
Why the heck would anybody with more brain cells than Max vote for him
David R. Amos
@Claude DeRoche YUP
David R. Amos
@Cindy Fordyce Methinks the majority of Canadian voters did not vote for Trudeau the Younger and his cohorts N'esy Pas?
Rosco holt
@David R. Amos
Allot voted to get rid of Harper and his replacement Andrew WHO? isn't any better.
Allot voted to get rid of Harper and his replacement Andrew WHO? isn't any better.
David R. Amos
@Rosco holt True but Harper
maintained his base support which now being split much to the chagrin of
Harper 2.0 and his cohorts. Methinks the votes that elected Trudeau
last time came from the NDP camp because of his promise to change the
first past the post vote and from many folks who looked forward to
smoking dope legally The Liberals may win this time merely because the
Conservatives are butting heads N'esy Pas?
Maxime Bernier applauds Higgs's call for cuts to equalization
Leader of the People's Party spoke at a luncheon in Saint John on Thursday
The leader of the upstart People's Party of Canada says he believes he has found an ally in New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs.
Maxime Bernier told a business luncheon in Saint John that Higgs was right to recently call for a reduction in equalization payments to the province in order to force governments to develop natural resources.
Bernier told about 75 people that the premier "essentially" agrees with him and called it "a significant development" that the leader of a province that receives equalization is willing to see it reduced.
"It's courageous for a politician to say that," the former federal Conservative cabinet minister told reporters later. "We must have a discussion with him about changing the formula.
Higgs
says the current system allows Quebec to accept large transfer payments
but say no to important national projects like the Energy East
pipeline. (CBC)
"He is the first premier of a province who receives money to tell the truth. That was great to hear that."
The federal equalization program transfers funds from so-called "have" provinces to "have-not" provinces to support a roughly equal level of provincial services at roughly equal levels of taxation.
"I am sure that you, too, in New Brunswick would prefer to live in a more prosperous province rather than getting more money from the rest of the country," he said in his speech.
Speaking later to reporters, Bernier said he thinks New Brunswickers would support his policies as long as he is able to explain them. He said that's why he was in Saint John.
"I'm appealing to the intelligence of people," he said.
Bernier, a Quebec MP, quit the federal Conservatives last year, complaining that leader Andrew Scheer — who defeated him for the party leadership in 2017 — was not willing to take clearly conservative positions on key issues.
On Thursday, he said Scheer will not touch the equalization issue "because his Quebec MPs would freak out."
Saint John-Rothesay Liberal MP Wayne Long said he didn't think Bernier's message, which also includes abolishing the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, would resonate in the city or the province.
"I think his views are, to be perfectly blunt, simplistic, and I don't think there'd be a lot of support certainly around the business community and around Atlantic Canada for those views," Long said.
But Jim Quinn, chair of Saint John's regional chamber of commerce, which hosted the luncheon, said some of Bernier's ideas on reducing environmental hurdles for pipeline approvals "would resonate with a lot of people."
He said Bernier's pledge to eliminate the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and other federal agencies that hand out business subsidies raises "big questions."
"Those agencies certainly have a focus on helping to expand businesses, so I'm sure there's another part to the discussion that would need to be explored in terms of how businesses and entrepreneurs can have the opportunity to develop their businesses and grow," he said.
Maxime Bernier said he believes he can get New Brunswickers' approval as he's 'appealing to people's intelligence.' (CBC)
Quinn
added that while change is never easy, "our country is at a crossroads,
our province is at a crossroads, having to look at doing things
differently. I think our economic situation more or less dictates that."
Bernier's anti-government, pro-business message seemed well-tailored to a city and business community still lamenting the cancellation of the Energy East pipeline.
Fewer environmental regulations would have allowed the project to go ahead, Bernier told the crowd.
"There have been so, so many bad decisions on the part of the Trudeau government, I don't know where to start."
If the project is ever revived, he said, a People's Party government would use federal powers in the Constitution to force it through over provincial opposition in Quebec.
"Justin Trudeau will not do this," he said. "Andrew Scheer will never propose this either. He is just too afraid of the pushback from his Quebec MPs, and getting bad press in Quebec."
During his speech, Bernier didn't raise his controversial proposal to reduce the number of immigrants entering Canada.
He told reporters he planned to discuss it at an evening rally for his party and said his views are not at odds with the many experts who say more immigration is needed to fill labour shortages and grow the population in New Brunswick.
He said under his plan, there would be fewer immigrants overall but more "economic immigrants" bringing needed skills or investment.
Bernier
said his party has established riding associations in all federal
constituencies and is now recruiting candidates ahead of October's
federal election.
He believes he can win support from Conservatives but also from Liberals who support balanced budgets and New Democrats who are against corporate subsidies.
And while he's not familiar with the policies of the provincial Green Party and the People's Alliance, he said, he believes their breakthroughs in the recent provincial election show voters here are willing to support new parties.
"It's very encouraging for us," he said.
Maxime Bernier told a business luncheon in Saint John that Higgs was right to recently call for a reduction in equalization payments to the province in order to force governments to develop natural resources.
Bernier told about 75 people that the premier "essentially" agrees with him and called it "a significant development" that the leader of a province that receives equalization is willing to see it reduced.
"It's courageous for a politician to say that," the former federal Conservative cabinet minister told reporters later. "We must have a discussion with him about changing the formula.
The federal equalization program transfers funds from so-called "have" provinces to "have-not" provinces to support a roughly equal level of provincial services at roughly equal levels of taxation.
I think his views are, to be perfectly blunt, simplistic, and I don't think there'd be a lot of support certainly around the business community and around Atlantic Canada for those views.- Wayne Long, Saint John-Rothesay MPNew Brunswick and other less well-off provinces have been receiving the funding for decades, something Bernier cites when he calls it "a poverty trap" that gives governments no incentives to encourage private-sector growth.
"I am sure that you, too, in New Brunswick would prefer to live in a more prosperous province rather than getting more money from the rest of the country," he said in his speech.
Appealing to New Brunswickers
Speaking later to reporters, Bernier said he thinks New Brunswickers would support his policies as long as he is able to explain them. He said that's why he was in Saint John.
"I'm appealing to the intelligence of people," he said.
Bernier, a Quebec MP, quit the federal Conservatives last year, complaining that leader Andrew Scheer — who defeated him for the party leadership in 2017 — was not willing to take clearly conservative positions on key issues.
On Thursday, he said Scheer will not touch the equalization issue "because his Quebec MPs would freak out."
Saint John-Rothesay Liberal MP Wayne Long said he didn't think Bernier's message, which also includes abolishing the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, would resonate in the city or the province.
"I think his views are, to be perfectly blunt, simplistic, and I don't think there'd be a lot of support certainly around the business community and around Atlantic Canada for those views," Long said.
'Big questions'
But Jim Quinn, chair of Saint John's regional chamber of commerce, which hosted the luncheon, said some of Bernier's ideas on reducing environmental hurdles for pipeline approvals "would resonate with a lot of people."
He said Bernier's pledge to eliminate the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and other federal agencies that hand out business subsidies raises "big questions."
"Those agencies certainly have a focus on helping to expand businesses, so I'm sure there's another part to the discussion that would need to be explored in terms of how businesses and entrepreneurs can have the opportunity to develop their businesses and grow," he said.
Bernier's anti-government, pro-business message seemed well-tailored to a city and business community still lamenting the cancellation of the Energy East pipeline.
Fewer environmental regulations would have allowed the project to go ahead, Bernier told the crowd.
"There have been so, so many bad decisions on the part of the Trudeau government, I don't know where to start."
If the project is ever revived, he said, a People's Party government would use federal powers in the Constitution to force it through over provincial opposition in Quebec.
"Justin Trudeau will not do this," he said. "Andrew Scheer will never propose this either. He is just too afraid of the pushback from his Quebec MPs, and getting bad press in Quebec."
No mention of immigration
During his speech, Bernier didn't raise his controversial proposal to reduce the number of immigrants entering Canada.
He told reporters he planned to discuss it at an evening rally for his party and said his views are not at odds with the many experts who say more immigration is needed to fill labour shortages and grow the population in New Brunswick.
He said under his plan, there would be fewer immigrants overall but more "economic immigrants" bringing needed skills or investment.
He believes he can win support from Conservatives but also from Liberals who support balanced budgets and New Democrats who are against corporate subsidies.
And while he's not familiar with the policies of the provincial Green Party and the People's Alliance, he said, he believes their breakthroughs in the recent provincial election show voters here are willing to support new parties.
"It's very encouraging for us," he said.
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