Liberals grade themselves high on several election promises
The Gallant government gave themselves high marks despite leaving out some key financial commitments
· CBC News · Posted: May 29, 2018 5:00 AM AT38 Comments
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Gerry Ferguson
I laughed while reading this article. Is this clown (Gallant) serious?????
@Gerry Ferguson Methinks everybody knows why I love the circus by now The Clowns make the show worth my two bits N'esy Pas?
Brad Little
The only grade that comes to mind with this government is F.... 100% F'd
David Amos
@Brad Little Methinks Mr
Gallant and his cohorts facing a rough crowd come polling day if this
comment section is any indication N'esy Pas?
Sterling Wright
This poor boy is totally out
of touch with reality. Perhaps too much sampling at the pot facility he
gave millions of our tax dollars to.
David Amos
@Sterling Wright Methinks you sound a lot like a member of the PANB N'esy Pas?
Archie Levesque
The Liberals are already in
full fledged election mode. Running attack ads on the radio and now
using our money to promote their ineptitude. At least most of the Atcon
boys wont be back for another round.
Ray Bungay
@Archie Levesque I just hate American style attack ads. They serve no purpose!
David Amos
@Archie Levesque YUP
Damian Gottfried
The liberals are being wiped out in ontario. And now are behind the conservatives federally.
That is the grade Canadians have given them.
That is the grade Canadians have given them.
Ray Bungay
@Damian Gottfried Don't forget Quebec, they are in trouble there as well!
@Ray Bungay Methinks Trudeau
"The Younger" should never forget Quebec However Ontario will tell us
quite a tale in short order. Its all over but the crying for the
liberals if Ford wins and Carbon Tax goes out with the trash N'esy Pas?
Rosco holt
Of course they'll give themselves high marks, who wouldn't.
But they forgot to substact all the backdoor scheming like Parlee Beach, Extra-mural privatization, herbicide spraying, lobbying while sitting has an MLA, cutting question period and the rest we don't know of yet.
But they forgot to substact all the backdoor scheming like Parlee Beach, Extra-mural privatization, herbicide spraying, lobbying while sitting has an MLA, cutting question period and the rest we don't know of yet.
David Amos
@Rosco holt Methinks the
liberals forget nothing. They produce this nonsense in the faint hope
that their fan base has a poor memory and can only recall the report
card of their narcissistic boss on polling day N'esy Pas?
Mario Doucet
Trudeau and Gallant are toast.
Rosco holt
@Mario Doucet
The alternative maybe worst....
The alternative maybe worst....
David Amos
@Rosco holt TRUE
David Amos
Wow don't I love the circus? Perhaps I should run again in "The Place To Be"
Methinks with Premier Brian Gallant is giving himself and his government high marks for keeping promises must have been the straw that broke his camel's back Brian MacDonald figured it was a good time to quit and go for a federal seat again N'esy Pas?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/brian-macdonalds-quits-politics-1.4681380
Methinks with Premier Brian Gallant is giving himself and his government high marks for keeping promises must have been the straw that broke his camel's back Brian MacDonald figured it was a good time to quit and go for a federal seat again N'esy Pas?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/brian-macdonalds-quits-politics-1.4681380
Rosco holt
@David Amos
Would anybody in his position give themselves a failing grade?
Most likely not.
Would anybody in his position give themselves a failing grade?
Most likely not.
David Amos
@Rosco holt Methinks that it
who take a narcissistic soul to dream up doing such a thing in the first
place so of course he would rate himself highly N'esy Pas?
Progressive Conservative MLA calls it quits at provincial level
Brian Macdonald won't run again for legislature seat, but might try federal politics
New
Brunswick's Progressive Conservative party is losing one of its
highest-profile MLAs just months before the next provincial election.
Brian Macdonald says he won't be a candidate this fall and may instead jump into federal politics.
Calling the last year "my best year in politics," the two-term MLA said his decision has nothing to do with PC Leader Blaine Higgs, who beat Macdonald for the party leadership in 2016.
"It's been a really good year," Macdonald said. "I've had a strong voice in the legislature on issues that are really important to my heart.
"I also think it can be a challenge being in provincial politics. It's very small, it's very close, it's very tight, and on a personal basis, I want to move on."
Macdonald
says he’s considering running for the federal Conservative nomination
in New Brunswick Southwest, which includes part of the riding of
Fredericton West-Hanwell, where he has been the MLA. (CBC)
Macdonald
said he's considering running for the federal Conservative nomination
in New Brunswick Southwest, a constituency that includes part of
Macdonald's provincial riding of Fredericton West-Hanwell.
That decision would pit him against former Conservative MP John Williamson, who announced May 21 he'll also seek the nomination in the riding he represented from 2011 to 2015. Party members in the riding will nominate their candidate June 28.
Macdonald said he'll also consider running federally in Fredericton. The former soldier said he's also looking at job opportunities with national organizations that advocate for veterans.
"I'm looking for opportunities and considering a lot of options," he said.
Macdonald is the fifth candidate from the 2016 provincial PC leadership race to opt against running in this year's election under Higgs.
Macdonald said he is confident he would have won his riding again and the Tories will win the election Sept. 24, meaning he'd have a shot of becoming a minister.
But he said being a provincial politician "does wear on you and it does make you think about what the other options are. … If I go another four years in provincial politics, it concerns me that my options would be limited after that."
The 47-year-old also said the recent death of some friends made him realize he should pursue other opportunities when he can.
Macdonald's interest in federal politics has been well-known for years. He was a political assistant to former federal Defence Minister Peter MacKay and sought the federal Conservative nomination for Fredericton for the 2008 election.
After failing to win that nomination, he ran provincially in Fredericton-Silverwood in 2010 and was elected. He was re-elected in the newly created riding of Fredericton West-Hanwell in 2014, when he defeated then-NDP leader Dominic Cardy.
Macdonald ran for the leadership of the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party but lost to Blaine Higgs. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
In 2016, Macdonald ran for the PC leadership, placing sixth on the first ballot out of seven candidates.
Macdonald said he doesn't think his departure will hurt the provincial party's chances of holding on to Fredericton West-Hanwell.
"It's going to be very attractive to a number of high-calibre candidates who are now beginning to come forward," he said.
Brian Macdonald says he won't be a candidate this fall and may instead jump into federal politics.
Calling the last year "my best year in politics," the two-term MLA said his decision has nothing to do with PC Leader Blaine Higgs, who beat Macdonald for the party leadership in 2016.
"It's been a really good year," Macdonald said. "I've had a strong voice in the legislature on issues that are really important to my heart.
"I also think it can be a challenge being in provincial politics. It's very small, it's very close, it's very tight, and on a personal basis, I want to move on."
That decision would pit him against former Conservative MP John Williamson, who announced May 21 he'll also seek the nomination in the riding he represented from 2011 to 2015. Party members in the riding will nominate their candidate June 28.
Macdonald said he'll also consider running federally in Fredericton. The former soldier said he's also looking at job opportunities with national organizations that advocate for veterans.
"I'm looking for opportunities and considering a lot of options," he said.
Macdonald is the fifth candidate from the 2016 provincial PC leadership race to opt against running in this year's election under Higgs.
Macdonald said he is confident he would have won his riding again and the Tories will win the election Sept. 24, meaning he'd have a shot of becoming a minister.
But he said being a provincial politician "does wear on you and it does make you think about what the other options are. … If I go another four years in provincial politics, it concerns me that my options would be limited after that."
The 47-year-old also said the recent death of some friends made him realize he should pursue other opportunities when he can.
Macdonald's interest in federal politics has been well-known for years. He was a political assistant to former federal Defence Minister Peter MacKay and sought the federal Conservative nomination for Fredericton for the 2008 election.
After failing to win that nomination, he ran provincially in Fredericton-Silverwood in 2010 and was elected. He was re-elected in the newly created riding of Fredericton West-Hanwell in 2014, when he defeated then-NDP leader Dominic Cardy.
Macdonald said he doesn't think his departure will hurt the provincial party's chances of holding on to Fredericton West-Hanwell.
"It's going to be very attractive to a number of high-calibre candidates who are now beginning to come forward," he said.
Liberals grade themselves high on several election promises
The Gallant government gave themselves high marks despite leaving out some key financial commitments
· CBC News · Posted: May 29, 2018 5:00 AM AT
New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant is
giving himself and his government high marks for keeping promises made
during the 2014 election campaign — although the self-evaluation avoided
grading some of the party's key financial commitments and generously
assessed the successful completion of others.
"We are on track to fulfil 98 percent of the commitments we made in 2014 to New Brunswickers," said Gallant at a press event in Moncton on Monday.
"I think that demonstrates we work very hard in ensuring our commitments are going to be honoured."
Flanked by government-produced charts that delivered mostly a campaign-style message, Gallant presented an evaluation of 153 commitments the party claims it made in the 2014 Liberal election platform "Moving New Brunswick forward."
According to Gallant, 149 of those have either been kept or started, a success rate of 98 percent.
"We thought it was important going into the campaign season that we update you on where we were as a government in implementing the commitments we made to New Brunswickers in 2014," he said.
Gallant said 90 per cent of his government's promises were met, eight per cent were not yet met and two per cent were not met. (Robert Jones/CBC)
But not included in the evaluation were a number of financial commitments Liberals made in 2014.
In its platform, the party outlined six years of financial targets for itself, including eliminating the province's deficit by its fifth budget and generating a $111 million surplus in its sixth — neither of which is happening.
In her latest budget speech, delivered in January, Finance Minister Cathy Rogers projected a $124 million deficit for a fifth Liberal budget, a $79 million deficit in a sixth and balanced finances not coming until budget seven.
That's significantly worse than what was proposed to voters in 2014 but did not count as a broken commitment in the party's self-evaluation because deficit promises weren't graded at all.
Also not graded were job creation numbers and a campaign promise that 5,000 would be generated in the first year of a Gallant government with a "guarantee" of 10,000 new jobs after four years,
Statistics Canada reports the province gained 2,800 jobs during the first 12 months of Gallant's government but only 800 more since then.
Liberals argue they did create the promised jobs, but employment losses in the private economy disguised their achievement. Either way, the issue does not appear in any form on the report card.
Among commitments that do appear, grading was often generous.
For example, government credits itself with keeping a 2014 commitment to "explore opportunities to export NB Power's energy surplus" by creating a new electricity export corporation.
However, according to the utility, its exports have fallen by $160 million — more than 40 per cent — over the past four years.
Similarly, the report card says a number of promises to "make post-secondary education more affordable" were also kept, even though school actually became more expensive for thousands of students.
According to New Brunswick's public accounts, overall student aid declined $11.7 million in the fiscal year ending in March 2017, even with the introduction of free tuition for low income students, because of the cancellations of other programs.
Other supposed successes, like ensuring "the independence of medical officers of health" prompted animated debates inside and outside the legislature about whether that was the true effect of government reform.
Conservative MLA Bruce Fitch, who attended the report card event, gave it a failing grade.
"You can take every promise and argue back and forth for a long time (if it was kept)," said Fitch who claimed the press conference was Liberal Party, not New Brunswick government, business.
"They're using government resources to try and convince people to vote for them again," he said.
"We are on track to fulfil 98 percent of the commitments we made in 2014 to New Brunswickers," said Gallant at a press event in Moncton on Monday.
"I think that demonstrates we work very hard in ensuring our commitments are going to be honoured."
Flanked by government-produced charts that delivered mostly a campaign-style message, Gallant presented an evaluation of 153 commitments the party claims it made in the 2014 Liberal election platform "Moving New Brunswick forward."
According to Gallant, 149 of those have either been kept or started, a success rate of 98 percent.
"We thought it was important going into the campaign season that we update you on where we were as a government in implementing the commitments we made to New Brunswickers in 2014," he said.
In its platform, the party outlined six years of financial targets for itself, including eliminating the province's deficit by its fifth budget and generating a $111 million surplus in its sixth — neither of which is happening.
Job growth promises
In her latest budget speech, delivered in January, Finance Minister Cathy Rogers projected a $124 million deficit for a fifth Liberal budget, a $79 million deficit in a sixth and balanced finances not coming until budget seven.
That's significantly worse than what was proposed to voters in 2014 but did not count as a broken commitment in the party's self-evaluation because deficit promises weren't graded at all.
Also not graded were job creation numbers and a campaign promise that 5,000 would be generated in the first year of a Gallant government with a "guarantee" of 10,000 new jobs after four years,
Statistics Canada reports the province gained 2,800 jobs during the first 12 months of Gallant's government but only 800 more since then.
Liberals argue they did create the promised jobs, but employment losses in the private economy disguised their achievement. Either way, the issue does not appear in any form on the report card.
Generous grading
Among commitments that do appear, grading was often generous.
For example, government credits itself with keeping a 2014 commitment to "explore opportunities to export NB Power's energy surplus" by creating a new electricity export corporation.
However, according to the utility, its exports have fallen by $160 million — more than 40 per cent — over the past four years.
Similarly, the report card says a number of promises to "make post-secondary education more affordable" were also kept, even though school actually became more expensive for thousands of students.
According to New Brunswick's public accounts, overall student aid declined $11.7 million in the fiscal year ending in March 2017, even with the introduction of free tuition for low income students, because of the cancellations of other programs.
Other supposed successes, like ensuring "the independence of medical officers of health" prompted animated debates inside and outside the legislature about whether that was the true effect of government reform.
Conservative MLA Bruce Fitch, who attended the report card event, gave it a failing grade.
"You can take every promise and argue back and forth for a long time (if it was kept)," said Fitch who claimed the press conference was Liberal Party, not New Brunswick government, business.
"They're using government resources to try and convince people to vote for them again," he said.
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