Saturday 10 November 2018

Higgs tells 16 fellow cabinet ministers they have to give straight answers YEA RIGHT

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Methinks that there is no doubt the Irving Clan is pleased with their former employee N'esy Pas?

 https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/11/higgs-tells-16-fellow-cabinet-ministers.html




 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/progressive-conservative-government-sworn-in-premier-1.4898354




Premier Blaine Higgs cabinet includes all 4 women in caucus, lone francophone

Higgs tells 16 fellow cabinet ministers they have to give straight answers

CBC News · Posted: Nov 09, 2018 9:00 AM AT


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Buford Wilson 
Buford Wilson
First order of business: remove the ball and chain from the economy by rescinding Brian’s foolish moratorium on resource development.

Blaine is on it.


David Amos
David Amos
@Buford Wilson Methinks that there is no doubt the Irving Clan is pleased with their former employee N'esy Pas?








Buford Wilson
Buford Wilson
Blaine has taken power. A momentous day for the people of New/Nouveau-Brunswick.

The pride is back.


David Amos
David Amos
@Buford Wilson I repeat proud of what?








Paul Bourgoin 
Jeff LeBlanc
Ernie Steeves, Finance...the man famous for fart jokes on C-103's morning show is now running finance.


David Amos
David Amos
@Jeff LeBlanc Ain't that special?









Paul Bourgoin 
Mario Doucet
Higgs will probably leave finance open in case Cathy Rogers wants it.


David Amos
David Amos
@Mario Doucet The job is taken








Paul Bourgoin 
Laurie Clark
So now NB has changed from being run by the Irving owned Liberals to the Irving owned Conservatives! Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose!!


Clive Gibbons
Clive Gibbons
@Laurie Clark

The last election the Irvings lost was to Louis Robichaud.

David Amos
David Amos
@Clive Gibbons Methinks many would agree that Little Louie and old KC were buddies too.N'esy Pas?

David Amos
David Amos
@Clive Gibbons Have a listen

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1719626245









Paul Bourgoin 
Robert Brannen
The growth in the New Brunswick Public Debt, as a percentage of the Debt at the time of gaining power; of Premiers Lord, Graham, Alward and Gallant:

Lord, 13.6 % growth over seven years,
Graham, 43.2 % growth over four years, (major recession through 19 months of his term of office)
Alward, 36.3 % growth over four years,
Gallant, 12.3 % growth over four years. (projected)

Source: Public Accounts of New Brunswick.



David Amos
David Amos
@Robert Brannen Interesting








Paul Bourgoin 
maude windsor
why, has Brian Northrup who represents the agriculture, dairy , education centers of new brunswick left out of cabinet?? time for Sussex to rise up and protest!!!
also, what departments have mirror image francophone ministers & departments? what about zero budgets for all departments of education and healthcare...that is attaching budget dollars to programs that are actually beneficial..bring ) budgets to bureaucrats who then have to provide evidence that tax dollars are providing useful to all NBers !!!!!


David Amos
David Amos






Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
I am sure the COR party aka the PA will rejoice to the appointment of the Francophone comedian Robert Gauvin as Deputy Premier and Minister of Tourism.


David Amos
David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps I know I am

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@David Amos, so am I! The CORservatives are on a head-on collision course with the other COR party.



Stephen Long
Stephen Long
@Marguerite Deschamps Bitter much?

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@Stephen Long, nope, just stating the facts.

Billy Hachey
Billy Hachey
@Marguerite Deschamps nope, an opinion, one lonely one all by itself, yours.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Billy Hachey

Nope its actually a fact, the only people that are bitter and jealous are the anti-francophone group you are part of.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin 
@Marguerite Deschamps 
I agree.








George Smith 
George Smith
Sorry I forgot the Premier in my prior comments. That means we the taxpayer will be paying 17 MLA's extra money leaving 5 of the governing party out of the money. It is too many in our current financial situation. That's around a third of the elected officials getting a large pay increase before they even start the job. Would Higgs former employer top up that many new hires on the first day of work. I think not, nor should we.


herbie harris
herbie harris
@George Smith What a shame that higgs had to appoint 16 plus 1 to cabinet just trying to make sure they all get a little extra before the next election in a few months... Northrup wasn't given a cabinet post as there is a email send from irving to tell higgs who to and not who to appoint.. Gauvin deputy premier that should make the north happy now higgs is making fun of the French.. Election soon

David Amos
David Amos
@herbie harris "Election soon"

Methinks that depends very much on how the Kingmakers in the Watermelon Party and the PANB react to the pending Throne Speech/ I believe if the liberals were wiseguys they would vote against it on principla just like Higgs did because they still have lots of money to campaign again with and Higgs has none N'esy Pas?








Paul Bourgoin 
James Johnstone
I watched with interest the ceremony on CBC.ca. I have no love for Blaine Higgs and less for Brian Gallant. Gallant seemed broken hearted and bored while he twirled his pen all throughout the proceedings. He looked like a spoiled little boy who didn't get his way. Pathetic.

David Amos
David Amos
@James Johnstone I enjoyed watching the Circus

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@David Amos, well they now have a comedian... and many buf foons. All they need now is a magician and the circle will be complete.









George Smith
George Smith
22 MLA's and 16 of them get higher paying jobs. Only 6 don't. How is that okay in a province with debts that have it bordering on bankruptcy. Cut some of these cabinet jobs it isn't a responsible thing to have so many at this or any time. If not then why not make every MLA a minister of something, How about Ministers of Convenience don't they deserve the same pay as the other 16? Shameful but that's politics in New Brunswick.


David Amos
David Amos
@George Smith My tally comes 5 Bruce Fitch, Bruce Northrup, Gary Crossman, Glen Savoie and Stewart Fairgrieve

Methinks you are forgetting Mr Higgs is in Cabinet too and one of the remaining five will be the Speaker N'esy Pas?








Paul Bourgoin 
Lou Bell
Quite obvious the Liberals are the " new " Parti Acadienne.


David Amos
David Amos
@Lou Bell Methinks many would agree that they alawys were N'esy Pas?

Roland Godin
Roland Godin
@Lou Bell
No, they usually try to avoid discussing the issue upfront and can be more part of the problem than the solution. PANB=Partie Acadien N.-B., Peoples Alliance N.B., interesting...eh/voilà.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Lou Bell

Maybe I didn't get the memo, but one thing is for sure PANB is the CoR replacement party.








Paul Bourgoin 
Lou Bell
But will there finally be someone to speak for the oppressed majority ? Doubt it .


Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Lou Bell

The majority ? They voted the last election, I think they are represented. Now if you mean the anti-French majority they got 3 elected.

Lou Bell
Lou Bell
@Marc Martin From the anti anglo minority .

Lou Bell
Lou Bell
@Marc Martin Will Gallant remain leader of the Acadian Party ?

David Amos
David Amos
@Lou Bell I always do.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Lou Bell

How can a majority can oppressed by a minority you dont make any sense.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Lou Bell

I guess Kris Austin will remain leader of the CoR party?









Paul Bourgoin 
Lou Bell
Wonder if Higgs has a new " buddy " who needs a convenience store and Liquor outlet ( or maybe a Cannabis store ) like he gave the last time to one of his buddies ?


Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Lou Bell

You didn't know his new buddy is the PANB leader.

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@Jim Reid, the hate is by the same majority of anti-French posters on here harping the same issue to death.

Tim Raworth
Tim Raworth
@Marguerite Deschamps Harping to death, I bet you don't even know who Wayne Grant is, and many others like him in the province. You wonder why people are upset. People talk about us getting along, well try having a look from the other side of the fence for a change. Or perhaps you are the Acadian Party don't care? Ill bet that it.

David Amos
David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps Yea Right

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@Tim Raworth, I know who Wayne Grant is. He's the guy who met Katherine d'Entremont in the parking lot!


Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
Why the thumb's down? Wayne wasn't the guy who met Katherine in the parking lot?

David Amos
David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks its because you are wrong N'ey Pas?

BTW I talked to Wayne Grant personally after he retired and gave him some document to prove what I was telling him was true about Katherine d'Entremont and her cohorts However he no longer cared and i certainly understand. For the record the nasty lady who taught school in Sussexx where I usually run for public office met Mr Grant at the desk of Chancery Place. He complaint caused his hours to be cut and sent to watch the parking lot across the street until he retired.

How do you explain my barring document being written in only ONE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE and signed by FRENCH EX RCMP member who now works for the Commissionaires?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-commissionaire-language-complaint-1.3298461

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@David Amos, ok, I was wrong but close enough. He was sent to the parking lot.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Jim Reid

Not a disturber im just stating facts, truth hurts doesn't it?

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Tim Raworth

Talking about Wayne Grant again ? He was hired by a private business not the province. They sent the wrong person for the job, inform yourself.








Paul Bourgoin 
Roland Godin
For generations, we have prefered the pied piper most likely to mismanange public policies, administration, resources and finances, why, possibly a cause study by academic. Will the new fluteur change the political rhétorique on that question, not for sure there is already a cut and paste comment faulting the last pied piper...eh/voilà.


David Amos
David Amos
@Roland Godin Methinks everybody knows I used "the pied piper" example yesterday you should give the devil his due N'esy Pas?








Paul Bourgoin 
Mario Doucet
The leader of the CoR party became premier after all.


Lou Bell
Lou Bell
@Mario Doucet But will Gallant stay head of the Acadian Party ?

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Lou Bell

What is the Acadian party ?

Lou Bell
Lou Bell
@Marc Martin Pretty well all of Gallants southeastern caucus. ( or all those who pointed him in the direction they wanted and said " fetch " ! )

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@Mario Doucet, you are dead right on this one!

David Amos
David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks he is not I believe that Higgs lost his attempt to be the CoR Party Leader N'esy Pas/

David Amos
David Amos
@Marc Martin "What is the Acadian party ?"

The Liberals DUHHH???

Norman Albert Snr
Norman Albert Snr
@Mario Doucet King maker if you want to look at it that way. That line in the sand took on new meaning when Brian and David chose their sides. Mr. Austin did become assistant Premier by default and far more important to Higgs then either Green or Liberal. PANB is the second most powerful party in NB today.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Mario Doucet

I agree with you on this....His mentor Kris Austin must be proud.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Lou Bell

Its better that then having Barney as a premier....Well he is the leader of a children's groups...

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@David Amos

But they elected MLAs in Saint John, Moncton and in Fredericton...You make no sense I tough the Acadians where all up north.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Norman Albert Snr

*Mr. Austin did become assistant Premier by default *

Why is that ? Higgs will still have to appoint a speaker. The greens are now the most powerfull party.







Paul Bourgoin 
Clive Gibbons
Looks like Higgs will be both the Premier and Finance minister...


David Amos
David Amos
@Clive Gibbons Methinks you may have hurt the feelings of Ernie Steeves if he has any N'esy Pas?









Paul Bourgoin 
Marc LeBlanc
Northrup and Fitch get nada....Wow,what a kick in the crockies....(for all you gen exr's out there a crocky is a large marble)


David Amos
David Amos 
@Marc LeBlanc Methinks Mr Fitch will get the best job of all as Speaker but Northrup stepped on the Irving Clan's toes bigtime and that will never be forgotten N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/irving-natural-resources-crown-land-forestry-marketing-boards-1.4474896

Natural resources minister in Alward government says Irving letter got him fired

'I have a strong feeling that did it,' PC MLA Bruce Northrup says of shuffle out of portfolio
Connell Smith · CBC News · Posted: Jan 08, 2018 6:00 AM AT







Paul Bourgoin 
Miles Long
Will Higgs be releasing his income tax filings like they do in US, one always wonders about emoluments.


David Amos
David Amos
@Miles Long Methinks that thou doth jest too much N'esy Pas?









Paul Bourgoin 
herbie harris
16 cabinet ministers plus higgs is he ever cutting the deficit .. unreal first step...


herbie harris
herbie harris
@herbie harris with only 6 members left why didn't he give them all one

Barry Odonnell
Barry Odonnell
@herbie harris I know of two people in Miramichi who will lose their "jobs" Next week. They are a husband and wife who worked on Gallant's election campaign the first time he was elected. All of a sudden a couple of "jobs" appeared for them in the civil service complete with government vehicles. Funny how that works eh? I am personally going to make sure they are outed and fired.

herbie harris
herbie harris
@Barry Odonnell that's quite a threat to them 2 people I suppose you have an inside track eh... hahahahahaha your in the clouds pal

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Barry Odonnell

So many nice people who voted for PANB they are all in the same model.

David Amos
David Amos
@herbie harris "with only 6 members left why didn't he give them all one"

My tally comes 5 Bruce Fitch, Bruce Northrup, Gary Crossman, Glen Savoie and Stewart Fairgrieve

Methinks its far more interesting as to whom Higgs did not appoint to his temporary cabinet N'esy Pas?

That said I bet Higgs has his beancounting buddy Bruce Fitch slated for the Speaker's Chair

David Amos
David Amos
@Barry Odonnell Methinks the list is truly huge N'esy Pas?

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Barry Odonnell

*I am personally going to make sure they are outed and fired.*

What a nice group of people PANB is, maybe we should ask the Federal government to remove the 1100 Federal jobs and move them to Moncton, anti-French groups do not deserve that kind of economy revenu in the region.









Paul Bourgoin 
herbie harris
dominic cardy new minister of education WOW... what is higgs thinking


Barry Odonnell
Barry Odonnell
@herbie harris Cardy is a JOKE! Could not even get a seat as NDP leader then switches teams to the Cons. Kinda goes whichever way the wind blows.

Mary MacKenzie
Mary MacKenzie
@Barry Odonnell People voted for him.

Pierre LaRoches
Pierre LaRoches
@Barry Odonnell NDP went from greatest share of vote ever under Cardy, to least share of vote ever under whatshername. If the party communists hadn't pushed him Cardy likely would have got seats for NDP this time around.

David Amos
David Amos
@herbie harris Methinks Mr Higgs thinks if he didn't pacify the EX NDP Leader with a cabinet position that he would quite likely cross the floor and join Kelly Lamrock's old buddies N'esy Pas?

David Amos
David Amos
@Mary MacKenzie "People voted for him."

Methinks that many would agree that folks voted for the colour of Cardy's latest coat N'esy Pas?

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@David Amos, speaking of "coat", how about "turncoat"?









Paul Bourgoin 
Jim Moore
Bye Bye Liberals, and it couldn't have come sooner, and next fall they will be gone federally too.


herbie harris
herbie harris
@Jim Moore I hope you like eating crow jim.. higgs will go down as one of the worst premiers of all time.. Northrup and fitzzii will make sure of that, they look some happy today hahahahah

Jim Moore
Jim Moore
@herbie harris Hardly, Gallant and the Liberals already have that title.

herbie harris
herbie harris
@Jim Moore you in the clouds jim

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Jim Moore

The Liberals are currently leading and the Cons took another hard hit with Clement. Who can dethrone them.....No one.

David Amos
David Amos
@herbie harris "Northrup and fitzzii will make sure of that, they look some happy today hahahahah"

Methinks Higgs and Fitch and everybody else "in the know" knows why I ran against Bruce Northrup instead of the leader who can't be named who overesees the Watermelon Party (Green on the outside Red on the inside) like I had initially planned N'esy Pas?

David Amos
David Amos
@Marc Martin Dream on Mr Quebecker

Tony Chamberlain
Tony Chamberlain
@Marc Martin Me thinks there is a pattern happening here. First Ontario, then Quebec and now New Brunswick has been voting out the Liberals. Andrew is leading in the polls.

Marguerite Deschamps
FMarguerite Deschamps
@Tony Chamberlain, Andrew who?

Rosco holt
Rosco holt
@Tony Chamberlain
The conservatives didn't win per say. They need support from another party.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@David Amos

Davis someone yanked your chain or did feed you yet?

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Tony Chamberlain

*Andrew is leading in the polls.*

No he is not, Libs are ahead at 37% heading upwards and Cons are at 32% . If the lection would be held right now Trudeau would be elected.







Paul Bourgoin 
Gerry Ferguson
A great day for New Btunswick


herbie harris
herbie harris
@Gerry Ferguson Will be one of the worst day for our province In its history...

Barry Odonnell
Barry Odonnell
@herbie harris You must have been one of the several hundred buddies that Gallant created a government job for

herbie harris
herbie harris
@Barry Odonnell How did you know that

David Amos
David Amos
@herbie harris Its not rocket science

David Amos
David Amos
@Gerry Ferguson Welcome to the Circus

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@David Amos, here comes the clown.









Matt Steele 
Matt Steele
Higgs certainly has his work cut out for him cleaning up Gallant's mess . A 14.5 BILLION debt ; 2 MILLION PER DAY interest payments , ; a school system that ranks at the bottom Canada wide ; one of the oldest populations in Canada ; a very low birth rate ; a dead economy ; an over bloated and ineffective civil service , and the list goes on . What a mess Higgs has inherited !


Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Matt Steele

* A 14.5 BILLION debt *

I didn't know Gallant was in power for the past 50 years ?? I tough he was only 40 something years old....interesting...

*a school system that ranks at the bottom Canada wide *

Links ?

*one of the oldest populations in Canada *

Not much to do about that since a lot of people come to retire in NB where its among the cheapest to live for a retiree.

*a very low birth rate *

That's what you get when you elect a Conservative government.

*a dead economy*

Its no has bad as you think there is still 5000 unapointed jobs in NB.

*an over bloated and ineffective civil service*

Really ? Says who ? Your degree at subway makes you educated enough to say that ?

Jim Moore
Jim Moore
@Marc Martin You realize only 46% of adult New Brunswick residents are considered literate, in either language, and it is the worst in Canada by a long shot, less than half the population of New Brunswick is considered literate enough to function in professional society, Ie; function adequately in the work force, less than half are considered literate.

Jim Moore
Jim Moore
@Jim Moore You can thank your Liberals for that.

Jim Moore
Jim Moore
@Marc Martin He was 100% right on all points, New Brunswick is the Armpit of Canada when it comes to Employment, healthcare, quality of living, and education, the wages are on average less than half that in other provinces. And the majority of residents aren't even considered literate in any language and wouldn't pass a grade school literacy test

Rosco holt
Rosco holt
@Jim Moore
Having the one of the oldest populations in Canada will do that.

Robert Brannen
Robert Brannen
@Matt Steele

Here are the Alward governments charges on the debt

Fiscal Year Debt charges (millions of dollars)

2011-12 662 ($1.8 million per day)
2012-13 660 ($1.8 million per day)
2013-14 662 ($1.8 million per day)
2014-15 677 ($1.9 million per day)

Source: Public Accounts of New Brunswick

Can you see a significant difference from those of Gallant?

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Jim Moore

Links ?

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Jim Moore

Links ? You cant provide anything and I am supposed to listen to an anti-French voter?

Archie Levesque
Archie Levesque
@Robert Brannen What about the fact that Alward was premier when the was a worldwide recession and Gallant was premier when the economy is booming?

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@Archie Levesque, a recession affects New Brunswick very little. New Brunswick is in a recession most of the time.

David Amos
David Amos
@Matt Steele Methinks everybody but you knows how I enjoy watching the NDP dude in you trying to argue the political pundits of the other parties This thread is a fine example N'esy Pas?

David Amos
David Amos
@Marc Martin "Links ?"

Your wish is my command

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

Jim Moore
Jim Moore
@Robert Brannen you are missing some years there, and the worst one, you also don't include the whole atcon mess

Jim Moore
Jim Moore
@Marc Martin No you claim to be a smart boy, go look for yourself, I am confident everything I said is based in reality and not emotional babble

Robert Brannen
Robert Brannen
@Archie Levesque

The so called *Great* Recession began in December of 2007 and ended in June 2009. Premier Graham had to deal with that.

Robert Brannen
Robert Brannen
@Jim Moore

Alward years were from September 27, 2010 to September 22, 2014.
Fiscal years run from April 1 through to March 31. Alward would be responsible for those fiscal years ending on March 31 of 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Rosco holt
Rosco holt
@Archie Levesque
Didn't we have Trump giving us ( and Gallant) trouble for the last 2 years and the economy wasn't booming from what I saw.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@David Amos

No one want to read your stories Davis, they are not interesting and irrelevant.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Jim Moore

See no link, no proof. Next!!







Paul Bourgoin 
Mario Doucet
How many thousands of dollars were collected in pay since the election by le parti liberal members delaying the election results? Fake cabinet ministers like Cathy Rogers and Premier wages for Gallant. Gallant thinks it's his decision to remain parti leader, guess he still don't get it.


Roy Nicholl
Roy Nicholl
@Mario Doucet
No one delayed the election results. Things are unfurling in accordance to the Westminster Parliamentary system.

David Amos
David Amos
@Roy Nicholl True








Paul Bourgoin 
Marc Martin
so the leader of the Conservatives who affiliated themselves with an anti-French group is going to be sworned in, lets ee how it goes....


Jim Moore
Jim Moore
@Marc Martin "Sworn in" not swarned in, please refer to my other statements about most residents of New Brunswick being illiterate. This is a perfect example of more than half of the provinces ability to read and write in either language. Not even at a grade school level, and the Liberals are to blame for that 100%

Barry Odonnell
Barry Odonnell
@Marc Martin By "Anti French" If you mean that they will no longer bend over and give the minority whatever they want then you are correct sir. Bonne Chance.

Barry Odonnell
Barry Odonnell
@Jim Moore Exactly! Look I will not make fun of Marc Martin's English. It is much better than my French. However Monsieur Martin would be called "Fluently Bilingual" in the silly service and handed a government job over someone more qualified that was English. There is a huge double standard

Rosco holt
Rosco holt
@Barry Odonnell
The double standard is having standards being lowered to serve the lazy whiners who don't bother to get the qualifications. While those who did get penalized.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Jim Moore

Grammar correction on a french person...you want a cookie for this ? Yu would blame everything of what's any French people will do, your point is invalid.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Barry Odonnell

The 2 language are both treated equally, If you didn't get a job its because you simply do not qualify for it.

Jim Moore
Jim Moore
@Marc Martin My point is pretty valid considering you can't even form a basic sentence even when you are trying to, and it directly proves my point one the average education level and literacy rate in New Brunswick, its the worse in the country and by a long shot

Jim Moore
Jim Moore
@Marc Martin They aren't equal at all, if they were then the french would be held to the same standards the english are when it comes to testing for bilingual literacy, as it stands now the French have a very simplified oral exam consisting of a couple extremely simple questions in english only they barely need to answer, the english are subjected to a written and oral exam in both french and english that they are graded to a very high standard on. That and the french in general can have horrible english and barely able to communicate, yet get all the government jobs, and are classified as bilingual when they are barely literate if at all in either language, and the english are outright refused jobs for not having perfect french with no accent. As well per person the french receive 4 times the funding the english get. Its a very unfair and slanted system. Hopefully its fixed and soon, along with abolishing segregation, or what the french love to call duality

Jim Moore
Jim Moore
@Jim Moore Gotta love auto correct, i mean of and worst, not one and worse, thanks apple

David Amos
David Amos
@Rosco holt "The double standard is having standards being lowered to serve the lazy whiners who don't bother to get the qualifications. While those who did get penalized."

Methinks the only standard that matters in government is not what you know but who you know N'esy Pas?

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@Jim Moore, he did not write "swarned", but "sworned". Although both are incorrect, how about you; you can't even copy correctly. Although we should try to make as few errors as possible, none of us is perfect, including you. If you wish to nitpick, you failed to put an apostrophe to "more than half of the province's ability".

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@Jim Moore, furthermore, if you pronounced "sworned" or "sworn", you would not even notice the difference in pronunciation. Talk about cutting hair!
I can give you examples of French correspondence from so-called bilingual Anglophones in the public sector. It is just brutal! Yet they still hold bilingual positions.

Jim Moore
Jim Moore
@Marguerite Deschamps What are you talking about Sworn and Sworned don't sound even remotely the same at all. Not even close, the E is not silent. Stop making excuses for a complete lack of ability. A missing apostrophe, is nowhere near a completely butchered spelling that isn't even in the english language. And I am so sorry I didn't copy a word that doesn't exists in any language improperly, I couldn't spell it that bad if I tried. But this goes directly to my point that the french and english are held to different standards when it comes to literacy and what would be considered acceptable, one side is held to university level standards in both languages, and the other side is not even held to grade school proficiency levels and given all the jobs even though they make up less than one quarter the population.

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@Jim Moore, keep going, you are just proving that all these allegations you keep making is total BS.

Rosco holt
Rosco holt
@David Amos
"matters in government is not what you know but who you know N'esy Pas?"

Yes, there is that too.

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
If you ask me, from my experience dealing with government employees, about all you need is toddler French for an Anglophone to get a government job.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Jim Moore

* as it stands now the French have a very simplified oral exam consisting of a couple extremely simple questions in english only they barely need to answer*

Not true again, educate yourself :

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-service-commission/services/second-language-testing-public-service.html

*the english are subjected to a written and oral exam in both french and english that they are graded to a very high standard on*

Again another lie.

* As well per person the french receive 4 times the funding the english get.*

Again stated by a French hater with no proof.

NEXT !!!

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Marguerite Deschamps

The thing is most of the time I write on these blogs on my phone, and I dont even take time to correct anything, I mean most people here are the lowest of the lowest so there is no need for me to put any effort into this.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Jim Moore

Poor Jim....Corrected by an incompetent francophone, you are right the anglophones are also illiterates, so they are not even qualified in their own language.

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Marguerite Deschamps

Actually most of bilingual jobs in the Federal government and provincial are deemed French essentiel and requires a B in French which any 5th grader can achieve. In Jim's its not his fault he probably finished school at grade 4.



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From: Brian Gallant <briangallant10@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 15:37:00 -0800
Subject: Merci / Thank you Re: Problem with PC Policy Convention I talked to Michael Crase
and he played dumb once it dawned on him he was in over his head
To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com

(Français à suivre)

If your email is pertaining to the Government of New Brunswick, please
email me at brian.gallant@gnb.ca

If your matter is urgent, please email Greg Byrne at greg.byrne@gnb.ca

Thank you.

Si votre courriel s'addresse au Gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick,
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 19:36:55 -0400
Subject: Re: Problem with PC Policy Convention I talked to Michael Crase and he
played dumb once it dawned on him he was in over his head
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vote@jimkarahalios.ca, premier <premier@ontario.ca>,
"caroline.mulroneyco" <caroline.mulroneyco@pc.ola.org>,
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premier <premier@gov.ab.ca>, premier <premier@gnb.ca>,
PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, "blaine.higgs" <blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>,
"brian.gallant" <brian.gallant@gnb.ca>, "David.Coon" <David.Coon@gnb.ca>, 
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jim Karahalios <vote@jimkarahalios.ca>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 21:55:33 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: I am being blackmailed by the friends of Brian Patterson. And
so are others ...
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

David,

I am being blackmailed by Brian Patterson's friend John Casselman.

At 12:03pm today, Brian Patterson's friend John Casselman sent me an
email saying, "I'm giving you 3 hours to give me a call about why,
after the email below, I just received a lit piece in the mail from
you quoting the same thing. No call ='s one of your stories being told
across the whole province."

In John's prior email to me he said, "If you ever do that again -
quote from a private email chain that I sent out and copied you in
good faith - I'll blow your campaign up.  Lots of stories from your
wavering days when I was saving your ass politically from the court
case.  Capeche? I'm f'ing serious on this one."

Here's a screenshot of the email:



Premier Blaine Higgs cabinet includes all 4 women in caucus, lone francophone

Higgs tells 16 fellow cabinet ministers they have to give straight answers

CBC News · Posted: Nov 09, 2018 9:00 AM AT

Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs is sworn in as New Brunswick's 34th premier by Lt.-Gov. Jocelyne Roy Vienneau on Friday. (James West/Canadian Press)



Blaine Higgs has become New Brunswick's 34th premier and has sworn in a cabinet that he says will get right to work solving the province's problems.

Higgs appointed 16 members to cabinet, including all four women Progressive Conservative MLAs, the party's lone francophone member as deputy premier, and a former leader of the NDP as education minister.

The members of the Higgs cabinet are:
  • Robert Gauvin, deputy premier, Tourism Heritage and Culture
  • Andrea Anderson-Mason, Justice and Attorney General
  • Ross Wetmore, Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries
  • Mary Wilson, Economic Development and Small Business
  • Dominic Cardy, Education and Early Childhood Development
  • Mike Holland, Energy and Resource Development
  • Jeff Carr, Environment and Local Government
  • Dorothy Shephard, Social Development
  • Trevor Holder, Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour
  • Sherry Wilson, Service New Brunswick
  • Carl Urquhart, Public Safety and Solicitor General
  • Jake Stewart, Aboriginal Affairs
  • Ted Flemming, Health
  • Bill Oliver, Transportation and Infrastructure
  • Ernie Steeves, Finance
  • Greg Thompson, Intergovernmental Affairs

Progressive Conservative MLA Mike Holland is sworn in as minister of energy and resource development. (James West/Canadian Press)

It also sees the return of Ted Flemming as health minister, a post he held in the last PC government, and the promotion of Moncton Northwest MLA Ernie Steeves to the post of finance minister.

In a speech after the swearing-in, Higgs put his cabinet on notice that he is serious about his promise to do politics differently.

"I want each of you to recall my promise, made during the throne speech debate, that we would hold ourselves to a higher standard," he told his ministers.
"When we are asked a sincere question, we will give a straight answer. When we  are given a job to do, we will measure the results and share them without spin. When we make mistakes, we will humbly own them and work to do better.

"When we defend our choices, we will do so with evidence and facts, not talking points and personal attacks. And we will always remember that results, not image, are the things that will keep the New Brunswick dream alive."


CBC News
Here's what you need to know about Blaine Higgs

 Blaine Higgs will be sworn in as the province’s new Progressive Conservative premier on Friday. Here are eight things you need to know about him. 1:40


The swearing-in took place one week after Brian Gallant's Liberal minority government was defeated in a confidence vote. Higgs will also have to govern without a majority in the legislature.

Higgs's choice of Steeves as finance minister comes just days after he acknowledged to reporters he was tempted to keep the job for himself. Higgs was finance minister in the previous PC government from 2010 to 2014.

"I thought, 'Why couldn't I do both?'" he told reporters on Monday. "Let's just say it'll be good for me to be close to my finance minister."

Conspicuous in their absence from the new cabinet were Bruce Fitch and Bruce Northrup, who both held senior ministerial positions in the previous Tory government of David Alward.

All 4 female MLAs are ministers 


One of the women appointed to cabinet, Andrea Anderson-Mason, brushed off questions about all four female PC MLAs becoming ministers.

"I'm also a lawyer," she said. "Let's not forget that. I'm happy to be here and to be a woman in a cabinet position, but I'm also happy to be here as a lawyer as well."


Progressive Conservative MLA Greg Thompson shakes hands with former premier Brian Gallant after being sworn in as minister of intergovernmental affairs on Friday. (James West/Canadian Press)

Higgs said the four women — Sherry Wilson, Dorothy Shephard, Mary Wilson and Anderson-Mason — will bring an important perspective.

"Women need to be part of our democratic process," he said. "We can learn a lot from our colleagues and we need a diversification within our group to do that."

Language division


Gauvin, the MLA for Shippagan-Lamè​que-Miscou, was seen as an inevitable cabinet choice after he was elected as the only PC MLA from a northern francophone riding.

He said part of his job would be to work to repair language divisions in the province.
"We have to roll up our sleeves, talk to each other, find ways to respect each other, and get the job done," he said.

Gauvin said he wasn't bothered that office-space limitations in the anterooms adjacent to the legislative chamber led the Tories to have the three People's Alliance MLAs sit with them on the government side of the house.
He said he has been urged by at least one francophone lobby group to get to know the Alliance members and better understand their opposition to some aspects of official bilingualism.

Asked if the Alliance members were making similar efforts to understand him, he said: "Not yet, because we've just started speaking. They're not monsters. We'll start from there."

Higgs also said there's no message in letting the Alliance members sit on the government side.
"I would like to spend more time on the actual messages that are real, because of what we accomplish," he said.

Many policy questions unanswered


Among the immediate issues on the government's agenda is a fix for the shortage of paramedics and nurses, legislative changes to WorkSafeNB to halt spiralling rate increases paid by employers, and a clash with Ottawa on carbon taxes.

Neither Flemming nor new attorney-general Anderson-Mason would comment on how they'll keep Higgs's promise to address the paramedic shortage and ambulance delays without running afoul of a consent order that requires bilingual service.
"Today is not the day to discuss policy," Anderson-Mason said.

Flemming said the consent order doesn't have the same weight as legal precedent but wouldn't discuss it much more than that.

"I believe the matter should be resolvable if we put the best interests of New Brunswickers first," he said.


Higgs, centre, stands with members of the executive council after the swearing-in. (James West/Canadian Press)

Education Minister Dominic Cardy, who left the NDP last year to join the PCs, likewise didn't want to discuss whether the new government will undo the previous Liberal decision to return the French-immersion entry point to Grade 1.

Higgs had criticized the Liberals for making the move before there was any evidence that the previous Grade 3 entry point was hurting educational outcomes.

"Amazingly, having been sworn in less than an hour ago, I'm not going to be making policy announcements today," Cardy said.
With his cabinet in place, Higgs will aim to bring in a throne speech the week of Nov. 20. It will face a confidence vote after two weeks of debate.

The three Alliance MLAs have already said they will vote to keep the PC government in power for at least 18 months.

That gives the PCs a total of 25 votes, a bare majority to pass legislation. The Liberals have 20 seats and the Greens have three.

Speaker Daniel Guitard, elected as a Liberal, said Friday he will stay in the position for now — removing one vote from his party's benches — but will rethink if the PCs do anything that forces him to abandon his neutrality.

"The day there's something that happens that will [prevent] me from being impartial will be the day I leave," he said.

Liberals defeated last week


On Nov. 2, the house voted 25-23 for a throne speech motion amended by the PC Opposition to declare no confidence in the government.

Three People's Alliance MLAs joined the 22 PC MLAs in voting to defeat the government. Meanwhile, 20 Liberals and three Greens voted to keep it alive.

Higgs told reporters earlier that he wanted a speedy transition of power.

"Our target is still on track for what we said in terms of a quick plan, a quick move to government," he said.

"I'm excited about that."

The PCs hold 22 of 49 seats in the legislature. The three People's Alliance MLAs have said they'll vote bill-by-bill to keep the Tories in office for at least 18 months.







https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/eight-things-you-need-to-know-about-blaine-higgs-1.4897225


8 things you need to know about New Brunswick's next premier, Blaine Higgs

Several factors make Higgs one of the more unusual politicians to hold the office in recent memory


Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs answers questions from the news media after defeating the Liberal government in the New Brunswick Legislature on Nov. 2. (James West/Canadian Press)


He's going to be the next premier of New Brunswick — and he'll also be one of the more unusual politicians to hold the office in recent memory.

Blaine Higgs will be sworn in as the province's new Progressive Conservative premier on Friday, an unconventional choice for the job after an unconventional election.

Here are eight things you need to know about Blaine Higgs.


1. He'll be the oldest premier of New Brunswick, ever

 


 
Higgs will be the first New Brunswick premier from the Saint John area in 83 years. 
Six of the last seven premiers who won power through elections were in their 30s. The exception, David Alward, was 50. Higgs is 64.

But that's more than just a break from the recent pattern. Higgs will be the oldest premier to take office ever — since the advent of responsible government in 1854. (Leonard Tilley, sworn in at age 63 in 1933, is the current record-holder.)

Higgs made a virtue of his age when the Liberals attacked him for having run for the leadership of the Confederation of Regions Party in 1989. Higgs was 35 at the time, the same age as Premier Brian Gallant when the negative ads were launched last year.
"I've been attacked about decisions I might have made when I was premier's age," Higgs said, "and that's why I can understand some of the decisions the premier's been making now."

2. He's from the smallest 'city' in the province

 


Higgs, a former finance minister, speaks to the leadership convention in Fredericton in 2016. (Julianne Hazlewood/CBC)
Higgs grew up in Forest City. The name is a bit of a misnomer: the remote community on a lake on the New Brunswick-Maine border is the farthest thing you can imagine from an actual city.

Last year Higgs estimated the year-round population of Forest City at seven people. "It survives because of the summer activity, not because of any industry or economic development," he said.

That gives him a perspective on small-town life, he said. "There are a lot of rural communities that are challenged, and kids are leaving. Let's not pretend otherwise. Let's lay it all out there and say, 'What collectively are we going to do?'"

3. He worked for the Irvings


Higgs spent 33 years of his career working for Irving Oil ltd. (CBC)

Critics of the Irvings joke that every premier "works" for the billionaire family, but Higgs actually did. He spent 33 years with Irving Oil.

When the Liberals used that to attack him as a pawn of big business, Higgs responded that working for Irving Oil allowed him to do what many New Brunswickers dream of.

"I would like that opportunity for anyone coming out of university, or coming out of high school … to have an opportunity to find a job and have a career right here," he said.

He has also said the Irving ethos — cost efficiency and measurable targets — would help him as premier. "I learned a lot working for that company," he said.

"It's ironic to me that someone would say because I have had broad experience throughout my career, that's not a plus to being in the middle of an $8 billion expenditure of taxpayer money."

4. He ran for the leadership of another party

 

Higgs also ran for the leadership of the COR party. This photo was taken in 1989. (CBC Archives )

There's a long history of party-switching and floor-crossing among New Brunswick politicians, but Higgs may be the first person to run for the leadership of one party and then become premier as the leader of another.

Although he moved from a protest party to a mainstream one, he seems to like that the Greens and the People's Alliance are shaking up the traditional way of doing politics, a system he says he disdains.

For example, he ruled out a PC-Liberal coalition, he said, because voters "have elected two other parties that cannot and should not be shut out of this process."

5. … and not just any other party


The party Higgs wanted to lead in 1989, the Confederation of Regions, was anti-bilingualism, while the PC party he now leads lists official bilingualism as one of its key principles.
Higgs says he no longer subscribes to the COR worldview. "I believe that all New Brunswickers, French and English, have the opportunity to speak their own language and to learn another one," he said in August. "My opinion has changed over the last 30 years."

Even so, many Acadian organizations are wary about what his COR past means for his approach to language rights.

6. He's the first unilingual premier elected since 1970


Higgs's ability to overcome suspicions about his COR past will be hampered by his inability to speak French well.

The PC leader started taking lessons after he won the PC leadership and has gamely made small talk with francophones. He has also delivered two major speeches entirely in French.



CBC News
Here's what you need to know about Blaine Higgs

 Blaine Higgs will be sworn in as the province’s new Progressive Conservative premier on Friday. Here are eight things you need to know about him. 1:40


But he remains unable to do substantial interviews in the language, making it harder for him to address francophone concerns in his own words. He said this week that he didn't have time for his lessons during the busy campaign but will restart them soon.

7. He won the party leadership despite his fellow MLAs, not because of them


Higgs signals to the gallery prior to the closure of the throne speech debate. (James West/Canadian Press)

In the 2016 leadership race, most PC MLAs, including former ministers who had worked closely with him in the Alward cabinet, chose to support candidates other than Higgs. Only two current MLAs backed him.

Portland-Simonds MLA Trevor Holder, who supported Mel Norton, said at the time that Higgs's vocal dislike of politics was misplaced, because elected officials should respond to their constituents and communities. "When it's done right … politics is what makes things happen."

And Rothesay MLA Ted Flemming, who supported Monica Barley, took an apparent swipe at Higgs's focus on the deficit.

"New Brunswick isn't just a balance sheet," he said. "I'm from the Progressive Conservative Party. That word means something to me. That word has history."

8. He's in a hurry, but he may not be able to hurry


Higgs says the campaign kept him busy, but he plans to start up his French lessons again soon. (Radio-Canada)

Higgs promised quick action to tackle the province's problems if he became premier.

He's asking that proposals to address a shortage of paramedics be on his desk next week, he plans to join a legal challenge of the federal climate plan by the end of this month, and PC MLA Bruce Northrup says a moratorium on fracking could be lifted in the Sussex area before the end of the year.
But Higgs has acknowledged he'll be forced to scale back some of his ambitions in the first legislature since 1920 in which no party won a majority.

The People's Alliance has promised to support him on confidence votes for 18 months, but will decide how to vote on other legislation one bill at a time.

That may make it difficult for Higgs to do all the things he feels are necessary — making him the first premier to take office in that position in a century.







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