Now is the Winter of Our Discontent brought us by Mr Higgs and the Boyz in Blue Coats

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Methinks Mr Higgs just proved to us why he deserves the job as the Ringmaster of the wicked Circus abusing our rights and interests N'esy Pas?


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Ottawa should cut equalization to force provinces to develop resources, Higgs says

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David R. Amos

Methinks now is the Winter of Our Discontent brought to us by Mr Higgs, Mr Austin, Mr Gallant, the Green dude who can't be named and all their cohorts N'esy Pas?

 
David R. Amos

Methinks Mr Higgs just proved to us why he deserves the job as the Ringmaster of the wicked Circus abusing our rights and interests N'esy Pas?

Dallas Mcquarrie

Mr. Higgs needs tor realize that a country is not a corporation and that the primary function of government is preserving the common good, not simply servicing corporate shareholders. He also needs to realize that the 'common good' is not synonymous with whatever the corporate sector may or may not want. It is indeed worrisome that New Brunswick's new Premier seems unable to see beyond the boardroom. Such limited vision has serious consequences: As Proverbs 29:18 puts it: "where there is no vision, the people perish." In a province will levels of illiteracy in excess of 50%, Mr. Higgs has far more important challenges to tackle than shilling for resource extraction companies.

Claude DeRoche

@Dallas Mcquarrie
Message from the founder of fascism:
"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

Benito Mussolini

David R. Amos

@Dallas Mcquarrie Methinks you should quit quoiting Proverbs and review your own words and then check mine again N'esy Pas?

Roger Richard

@David R. Amos Are you saying that Canada is a corporation?

This is Canada’s Corporate registered number.
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Business Address Canadian Embassy
1746 Massachusetts Ave., NW,
Washington, DC 20036

Canada was explained within the 2002 Annual Report FORM 18-K filed by
Canada with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
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Mark (Junkman) George

I am at a loss for words. Blaine DUH Higgs is so "challenged" I figure he has to wipe his mouth every time he speaks.
You can take the politician out of the Irving empire, but you can't take the Irving out of the politician.
Welcome to Canada's banana republic here the Irvings rule.

David R. Amos

@Mark (Junkman) George Welcome to the Circus

Douglas James

Higgs has a one track mind and can't seem to get beyond 1950s thinking. He's never really left the Irving-fold. Very, very disappointing start as a Premier.

steve coy

@Douglas James Yup, those old boys eh. They just don`t change.

Jim Moore

@Douglas James he's a hell of lot better than Atcon Gallant

Gabriel Boucher

@Douglas James: It shouldn't be surprising. Cons and Libs has always supported Irving. I don't see how that would suddenly change for this Premier, especially when it was made public that he was working for the Irvings for several years as their senior executive. He even thanked Irving for the opportunity to have worked for them during the election. That should've raised some major red flags, but yet, here he is.

Fred Brewer

@Jim Moore
"he's a hell of lot better than Atcon Gallant"

How so. Atcon cost us a one-time loss of $63 million. Higgs suggestion will cost us $1.8 Billion annually. No comparison. Higgs needs to be shown the door and the sooner the better.

Norman Albert Snr

@Jim Moore Hard to tell the difference Jim. Just twisted in different ways for the same end result. Tax the people and let industry ride the free railroad.

David R. Amos

@Douglas James Methinks we get the governments we deserve when the political parties make fun of the rest of us N'esy Pas?

Michel Jones

@Norman Albert Snr If you don't like taxes as most of us, you must be pissed about the federal carbon tax. I am.

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Subject: Methinks Mr Higgs just proved to us why he deserves the job as the Ringmaster 

of the wicked Circus abusing our rights and interests N'esy Pas?
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Ottawa should cut equalization to force provinces to develop
resources, Higgs says

New Brunswick premier says financial pinch would serve as 'reality discipline'
CBC News · Posted: Dec 19, 2018 9:01 PM AT


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David R. Amos
Methinks Mr Higgs just proved to us why he deserves the job as the
Ringmaster of the wicked Circus abusing our rights and interests N'esy
Pas?


On 12/20/18, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:

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> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:10:37 -0400
> Subject: Methinks its blatantly obvious who rules the roost N'esy Pas?
> To: robert.gauvin@gnb.ca,  Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca,
> hugh.flemming@gnb.ca,  bruce.northrup@gnb.ca, jake.stewart@gnb.ca,
> Hamish.Wright@gnb.ca,  rick.desaulniers@gnb.ca,
> michelle.conroy@gnb.ca, bruce.fitch@gnb.ca, Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca,
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> kris.austin@gnb.ca, brian.gallant@gnb.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
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> David R. Amos
> Methinks its blatantly obvious who rules the roost N'esy Pas?
>
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> David R. Amos
> @David R. Amos Methinks he informed us again in no uncertain terms N'esy
> Pas?
>
> Gauvin suggested Wednesday that he might not have remained a PC
> without Higgs's clarification.
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> "For me to stay in the party, those laws have to be respected, and we
> will respect them," he said.
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> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:03:34 -0400
> Subject: Methinks nobody should be surprised to see the old tag team
> of Lord and Pothier reunited N'esy Pas?
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> David R. Amos
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> Methinks nobody should be surprised to see the old tag team of Lord
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> "New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord's press secretary has resigned in
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Ottawa should cut equalization to force provinces to develop resources, Higgs says

New Brunswick premier says financial pinch would serve as 'reality discipline'

CBC News · Posted: Dec 19, 2018 9:01 PM AT 

New Brunswick Premier Blaine 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)

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs thinks the federal government should cut equalization payments to force provinces to develop their natural resources.

Higgs said in an interview with CBC New Brunswick's Harry Forestell that he proposed the idea during the first ministers' meeting in Montreal earlier this month.

"No one else really jumped on that, especially Quebec didn't jump on that because they got an increase of $1.4 billion [in equalization payments]," he said.

Higgs made the comments in the context of Quebec Premier François Legault's continued opposition to the Energy East pipeline, which would have carried western crude oil to an export terminal in Saint John.

"My point was if people felt the pain — if I felt the pain, if Quebec felt the pain and they didn't get 70 per cent of the current transfer payments … I mean, they don't feel anything, so they can just say, 'No, we're not allowing anything through our province, but yet I'll take the money.' I just don't think that's fair."

Equalization is a federal program that is intended to minimize fiscal disparities between provinces.
The program is enshrined in the constitution and the goal is that provincial governments can provide comparable levels of public services at comparable levels of taxation.

Jamie Gillies, a political scientist at St. Thomas University, said equalization is a constitutional obligation and "should not be equated with resource development." (CBC)

The New Brunswick government budgeted for $1.8-billion worth of equalization transfers in 2018-19. The province is expected to receive $2-billion in equalization in 2019-20.

Jamie Gillies, a political scientist at St. Thomas University, said Higgs's proposal is not realistic.

"The suggestion to cut equalization might play well in western Canada and Ontario but that could be seen as a shortsighted approach in New Brunswick, where we depend a lot on transfer payments," Gillies said in an email.

"I would think that the job of the premier of New Brunswick at first ministers' conferences is to advocate and fight for the province, not suggest austerity policies that could seriously hamstring his government and harm New Brunswickers."

Pipeline project pulled

TransCanada abandoned the proposed $16-billion pipeline project last year following protests and changes to the national environmental assessment process.

Higgs had hoped to resurrect the pipeline debate at the recent meeting with the premiers and prime minister, but Legault maintained there's "no social acceptability for oil in Quebec."

Higgs said there was general agreement among the premiers for a "utility corridor," which could be used for pipelines for oil and gas or transmitting hydro power. But Higgs said Quebec opposed the idea.

"It's like we're stranded here on the east coast and cut off from the rest of Canada," said Higgs.

Jack Mintz, a president's fellow at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, said this week that Alberta should consider leaving Canada. He called the plan "Albexit." (University of Calgary)

Higgs is not the only one frustrated about the inability to build pipelines and energy issues in Canada.
Economist Jack Mintz, a president's fellow at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, said this week that Alberta should consider leaving Canada, which he dubbed "Albexit."

In an interview with CBC's As it Happens, Mintz said Albexit would be a last resort but it could help the province as it tries to boost its energy sector.

"Alberta is being landlocked right now in Canada in the current situation. So what would independence do? Well, it won't necessarily help get pipelines to tidewater in Canada, but certainly, you know, the United States may be quite willing to make deals with Canada for oil," he said.

• As It Happens
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Developing N.B.'s energy sector

Meanwhile, New Brunswick is hurting itself by not developing its "significant" shale gas reserves, which could be "game changing" for the province's finances, Higgs said.

"We just don't seem to want to move as a province. We're happy to accept handouts, but we don't seem to be as readily willing to make the changes necessary to allow us to contribute to our own well-being," he said.

Higgs said he raised the idea of reducing transfer payments in order to force provinces to develop their natural resources at a recent first ministers' meeting. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)

Without 30 per cent of the budget coming through federal transfer payments, Higgs suggested attitudes might change about resource development.

"It's like a reality discipline," he said.

"All that I'm asking is, how can we hold our hand out on one hand and then say no on the other?"

The former Liberal government put a moratorium on shale gas development in New Brunswick.

The Higgs government has been discussing the possibility of lifting the moratorium in certain areas of the province. Higgs's PC government is in a minority situation and there is opposition from other parties to the idea of lifting the moratorium.

St. Thomas University's Gillies said equalization is a constitutional obligation and "should not be equated with resource development."

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