David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Methinks SANB people have spin down to a fine art N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/higgs-willing-to-work-with-greens-as.html
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/higgs-willing-to-work-with-greens-as.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/year-end-blaine-higgs-pc-government-1.4961077
Higgs willing to work with Greens — as long as it's on his terms
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Matt Steele
Matt Steele
There has been an interesting
story with possible N.B. political ties being reported
elsewhere....google RCMP Officer Curtis Barrett for an interesting story
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David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Matt Steele Methinks you should Google David Amos Kevin Vickers for more interesting stories N'esy Pas?
Brian Robertson
@Marguerite Deschamps
Quite an elaborate narrative, but without any credible evidence to back it up.
But, the point is simply meant agitate though, wasn't it.
Quite an elaborate narrative, but without any credible evidence to back it up.
But, the point is simply meant agitate though, wasn't it.
Marguerite Deschamps
@Brian Robertson, just watch the video on the right of this link. You can also buy the book of the presenter.
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David R. Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps
Methinks you and Alain Deneault the Endowed Chair in Criminology and
Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University should have come to Federal
Court and listened to me argue the Crown and a former General Counsel of
the Irving Clan right after I ran in the election of the 42nd
Parliament N'esy Pas?
Fred Brewer
Higgs' agenda of pro-fracking, pro-pipelines and anti-carbon tax sure sounds like the Empire's agenda.
Robert G. Holmes
@Fred Brewer A complete
overhaul of the NB Energy Plan needs be done, before any continuation of
the petroleum industry subsidies. Natural Gas through fracking is a
short term and risky research project. Re-building Mactaquac, (?), must
take into account the economic benefits of alternate hydro sources,
(Hydro Quebec). Fundamentally, NB is strategic, through NB Power grid to
expanding the Atlantic grid; Get it on with reliable cheaper clean
power via QC. Knock out the coal thermal, promote sustainable urban
planning. Build to low carbon standards. Lots to do for a qualified Cost
Engineer, (Higgs), working in collaboration with other parties. But get
it right for the long term.
Harold Benson
@Fred Brewer I do not believe that a majority supports a practice that pumps poison into the ground and ruins the water.
Brian Robertson
@Fred Brewer
Sounds like pragmatism to me; and not the rainbows and unicorns of the Liberals.
Sounds like pragmatism to me; and not the rainbows and unicorns of the Liberals.
Fred Brewer
@Brian Robertson
"Sounds like pragmatism to me;"
Since when is it pragmatic to poison our environment for the sake of a few dollars?
"Sounds like pragmatism to me;"
Since when is it pragmatic to poison our environment for the sake of a few dollars?
David R. Amos
@Robert G. Holmes Methinks you should attend the EUB hearings N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
@Harold Benson Methinks I have seen Sam write the same things N'esy Pas?
Barry Odonnell
@Fred Brewer Actually it
sounds like the agenda of a man who realizes that the tree huggers in NB
who were hypocrites because they accepted dirty oil money from Alberta
can no longer run the province. You as a province are in debt up to your
eyeballs and the Greens have shown me nothing in their policies that
will help fix it.
Jim Cyr
@Fred Brewer Just to be clear: do you mean those people who employ thousands?? THAT "empire"??
Brian Robertson
@Fred Brewer
Poisoning our environment is a dramatic exaggeration designed to obscure the fact that you have no evidence to support your allegations.
Poisoning our environment is a dramatic exaggeration designed to obscure the fact that you have no evidence to support your allegations.
Barry Odonnell
@Jim Cyr Yep. The same company that has kept NB afloat for the last 80 years
Barry Odonnell
@Fred Brewer Nonsense again
Fred Brewer
@Brian Robertson
Once again I refer you to the Canadian Medical Association website at CMAJ.CA and search on the term "fracking". There you will learn of the known carcinogens and suspected carcinogens that are causing or suspected of causing all sorts of human health problems including cancer and birth defects.
Once again I refer you to the Canadian Medical Association website at CMAJ.CA and search on the term "fracking". There you will learn of the known carcinogens and suspected carcinogens that are causing or suspected of causing all sorts of human health problems including cancer and birth defects.
Fred Brewer
@Jim Cyr
" do you mean those people who employ thousands?? THAT "empire"??"
Yes I do. And if you find the time you should read the study done by UNB economics professors that showed the direct link between the empires's profits and New Brunswick's losses.
" do you mean those people who employ thousands?? THAT "empire"??"
Yes I do. And if you find the time you should read the study done by UNB economics professors that showed the direct link between the empires's profits and New Brunswick's losses.
David R. Amos
@Fred Brewer "And if you find the time you should read the study done by UNB economics"
Methinks if you find the time you should research what I have been informing you of N'esy Pas?
Methinks if you find the time you should research what I have been informing you of N'esy Pas?
Nancy Alcox
With the climate crisis
screaming in our faces, how can this so called leader be pushing
everything that will just feed the fire?
He’s so concerned about the budget and spending but is overlooking what we’re going to spend on weather/climate change floods, power outages and eventually forest fires etc..etc..
Our “leader” is still working for the Irving’s..not for us..
He’s so concerned about the budget and spending but is overlooking what we’re going to spend on weather/climate change floods, power outages and eventually forest fires etc..etc..
Our “leader” is still working for the Irving’s..not for us..
Emery Hyslop-Margison
@Nancy Alcox Chicken Little
has moved on from "the sky is falling" to "climate change". It's just
another excuse to raise your taxes and keep you living in fear.
David R. Amos
@Emery Hyslop-Margison YUP
Jim Cyr
@Nancy Alcox You've swallowed the hoax, I see
Emery Hyslop-Margison
The Irvings and their high
level management are not particularly big on consultation. They tend
toward administrative secrecy and a "rule by fiat" approach. But people
can change - if only marginally. So, we'll see what happens with Premier
Higgs.
Colin Seeley
@Emery Hyslop-Margison
Huh ? Have you tried being a teacher !
Huh ? Have you tried being a teacher !
David R. Amos
@Emery Hyslop-Margison Methinks a leopard cannot change its spots N'esy Pas?
Winston Smith
@Emery Hyslop-Margison
You are a former Irvnig employee with Midland Courier. Your bias is showing.
You are a former Irvnig employee with Midland Courier. Your bias is showing.
Emery Hyslop-Margison
@Winston Smith And a
university professor and department head after that. I left the Irvings
because I disagreed with their practices and political influence in the
province. Not sure how that qualifies as "bias".
David R. Amos
@Emery Hyslop-Margison Hmmm Methinks that means you used to work for us at one time N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
@Emery Hyslop-Margison Now you work for Yankees
Pierre LaRoches
Why bother consulting with
Kevin Arsenault? His stances on anything will be coloured by his past
as president of the SANB. He literally offers nothing but division and
whining on all fronts despite his folksy "I have no ties" appearance.
Colin Seeley
@Pierre LaRoches
Sounds like one of those peoplekind’s who sit in Timmy’s yelling and screaming with their big mouths and useless ideas.
Don’t know him. And don’t want to.
Sounds like one of those peoplekind’s who sit in Timmy’s yelling and screaming with their big mouths and useless ideas.
Don’t know him. And don’t want to.
Dan Lee
@Pierre LaRoches
Sounds like PA............
Sounds like PA............
David R. Amos
@Pierre LaRoches I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir
Matt Steele
@Pierre LaRoches ....Very
true ; it is pretty easy to see what Kevin Arseneau's agenda is ; and
the Greens will lose a lot of support because of it .
Alex Forbes
I appreciate the Green's
fight for the environment. It's all their other social policies I don't
necessarily agree with. The Greens have nothing to whine about here.
They are ideologically opposed to 90% of the PA and PC party's beliefs.
David R. Amos
@Alex Forbes However whine they will Methinks its in the DNA of their political party members N'esy Pas?
Douglas James
"Higgs says that should prove
to the New Brunswick Greens that they can support shale gas here and
still tackle climate change."
The fact that Premier Irving Higgs believes the Greens or anyone else is opposed to fracking solely because of climate change says everything about the ignorance that permeates government.
The fact that Premier Irving Higgs believes the Greens or anyone else is opposed to fracking solely because of climate change says everything about the ignorance that permeates government.
David R. Amos
@Douglas James Methinks
fellow party member the former SANB Prez and wannabe liberal candidate
will insure that the animosity will continue N'esy Pas?
"They haven't shown any willingness to bring anything out that we want to bring forth to date," said Green MLA Kevin Arseneau. "Maybe it will change, but for now I don't feel there's been any consultation on anything."
"They haven't shown any willingness to bring anything out that we want to bring forth to date," said Green MLA Kevin Arseneau. "Maybe it will change, but for now I don't feel there's been any consultation on anything."
Douglas James
@David R. Amos As usual, I have no idea what you are talking about.
Chantal LeBouthi
So cbc where the story about Kevin Vickers
David R. Amos
@Chantal LeBouthi Methinks they are tongue-tied at the moment N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell
@Chantal LeBouthi It was there yesterday. Try to keep up .
Matt Steele
@Chantal LeBouthi .....CBC
should dig a little deeper into the Kevin Vickers story as other media
outlets have reported that it was actually another RCMP Officer who took
out the shooter on Parliament Hill ; and then Vickers claimed credit
for it . Google RCMP Officer Curtis Barrett for the real story .
David R. Amos
@Chantal LeBouthi Methinks if
Kevin Vickers becomes the Liberal Leader next month I doubt he will
want to work with the likes of the PANB or the French Lieutenants Mr
Arseneau and Mr Gauvin as he tries to unseat Mr Higgs and win the next
mandate N'esy Pas?
Alex Cooke, The Canadian Press
Published Monday, December 31, 2018 4:18PM EST
"Vickers said that if he decides to run, he would hope to heal
relations between the province's English and French-speaking residents
-- a contentious issue during the recent provincial election.
"I don't think there's a linguistic divide; I think there may be a
divide based on misunderstandings, misinformation," said Vickers.
"There's so much negativity, there's so much misinformation that's
used for promotion of agendas that are based not on fact."
Vickers also said he sees a lot of misinformation about the province's
economic state, saying New Brunswick holds a lower debt-to-resident
ratio than Quebec, Ontario, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Vickers said he wants to carry on the legacy of his father, Bill, who
began the Northumberland co-op dairy in the province decades ago.
He said the business, along with a credit union run by his father's
friend, Martin Legere, gave the province a much-needed boost.
"They brought a lot of jobs, a lot of great times ... (their) story
became a success story all across the province of New Brunswick," he
said. "There's that legacy that I look at."
He added that he'd like to see a better province for his three grandchildren.
While he said his wealth of experience in public service would help
him for a potential run for Liberal leadership, he still needs some
time to think it over."
Barry Odonnell
@Matt Steele Sorry I would look for it but my give a damn level in regards to this is below E.
herbie derbie
@Matt Steele Google this
google that hahaha are you for real matt.. Kevin is a national hero but
in your eyes no no he cant be he might be liberal.. Being a tory has
really got your mind clouded or maybe the new cannabis rules have ...
not to sure
Pierre LaRoches
@Chantal LeBouthi Poitras is awaiting his copy of the Liberal approved notes so he knows what he's allowed to say.
David R. Amos
@Pierre LaRoches YUP
Roy Kirk
Shale gas development in NB? Under what rules and conditions?
We need to get adequate direct revenues to compensate us for the risk. $US 1 per GJ or 20% of sale price, whichever is greater.
We need adequate regulatory infrastructure to minimize the risk.
Be clear, except for Sussex area (where we've produced gas but still aren't clear as to the royalties paid), the NB shale gas play is highly speculative. It attracts the bottom feeders of the gas industry. And they need to be ruled and regulated with an iron fist. There's no evidence that we're ready to do that yet.
It's bad news for nb when a PC govts priority for the economy is as likely to pan out as a loto ticket.«
We need to get adequate direct revenues to compensate us for the risk. $US 1 per GJ or 20% of sale price, whichever is greater.
We need adequate regulatory infrastructure to minimize the risk.
Be clear, except for Sussex area (where we've produced gas but still aren't clear as to the royalties paid), the NB shale gas play is highly speculative. It attracts the bottom feeders of the gas industry. And they need to be ruled and regulated with an iron fist. There's no evidence that we're ready to do that yet.
It's bad news for nb when a PC govts priority for the economy is as likely to pan out as a loto ticket.«
David R. Amos
@Roy Kirk Methinks everybody knows that I have been asking such questions since 2004 N'esy Pas?
Fred Brewer
@Roy Kirk
So, you would drink poison as long as you were well paid?
So, you would drink poison as long as you were well paid?
Roy Kirk
@Fred Brewer The dose makes the poison.
Fred Brewer
@Roy Kirk
In your opinion, what is an acceptable dose of poison?
In your opinion, what is an acceptable dose of poison?
Roy Kirk
@Fred Brewer my opinion
counts for little, but name your poison and you should be able to find
toxicology data from credible references. Arsenic, for example, is
considered ok if below 0.010 mg per litre, if I understand the Canadian
guidelines.
Barry Odonnell
@Fred Brewer You should read facts about the fracking industry and not tree hugging propaganda movies
Fred Brewer
@Barry Odonnell
I don't consider the medical profession including my family doctor to be tree huggers.
My facts come directly from the Canadian Medical Association. If you can't trust doctors, who can you trust? Go to the CMAJ website and search for fracking and discover for yourself the negative health impacts of fracking.
I don't consider the medical profession including my family doctor to be tree huggers.
My facts come directly from the Canadian Medical Association. If you can't trust doctors, who can you trust? Go to the CMAJ website and search for fracking and discover for yourself the negative health impacts of fracking.
Fred Brewer
@Roy Kirk
Yes of course we can find safe limits for most any chemical but can you point out anywhere, how fracking companies can guarantee they won't exceed those limits? Its impossible when they won't even reveal what chemicals they use.
Yes of course we can find safe limits for most any chemical but can you point out anywhere, how fracking companies can guarantee they won't exceed those limits? Its impossible when they won't even reveal what chemicals they use.
David R. Amos
@Roy Kirk Me Too
Lou Bell
The Greens are destined for irrelevance again in NB. Always were, always will be.
Dan Lee
@Lou Bell
wishfull thinking huh
wishfull thinking huh
Jim Moore
@Lou Bell Again? they always have been, and that includes everywhere provincially and federally, A green vote is a wasted vote
David R. Amos
@Lou Bell I agree
SarahRose Werner
Translation: "I can work with anyone as long as they agree to do things my way."
Lou Bell
@SarahRose Werner He is after all the leader. We just got over the " dog waving the tail " SANB led Liberals.
Fred Brewer
@Lou Bell
" He is after all the leader."
Yes, but Higgs has a minority government and needs the support of the other parties to get things done. Normally this requires a give and take approach but apparently for Mr. Higgs it is all take and no give.
I see an election in the very near future and believe that is the only way to get out of the mess we are currently in.
" He is after all the leader."
Yes, but Higgs has a minority government and needs the support of the other parties to get things done. Normally this requires a give and take approach but apparently for Mr. Higgs it is all take and no give.
I see an election in the very near future and believe that is the only way to get out of the mess we are currently in.
Jim Moore
@Fred Brewer He has all the
support he needs, the greens aren't worth dealing with after what
happened and they tried ally with the liberals to steal the government
after they lost without even the minimum needed seats
SarahRose Werner
@Fred Brewer - Yeah, I sure
don't see Higgs as lasting a full four years. The Alliance *said*
they'd support him for 18 months, but they may not keep that promise and
they haven't promised anything after that. I also wouldn't be
surprised if Gauvin switched to being an independent or even crossed the
floor.
Dan Lee
@SarahRose Werner
Bingo......and thats why higgs is looking at the others.....Gauvin will move....
Bingo......and thats why higgs is looking at the others.....Gauvin will move....
David R. Amos
@Fred Brewer I agree but methinks everybody must know how much I am enjoying the Circus in the "Mean" time N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell
Nice to just have some
stability in our government for a change. A few close SANB buddies
running the Liberal caucus who didn't seem to have a clue what they were
doing was pullin' us down bigtime.
SarahRose Werner
@Lou Bell - We don't have
stability. We have a minority government that, for the next 18 months,
just barely has enough votes to push its agenda.
Matt Steele
@Lou Bell .......Very true .
It is good to have a " REAL " Premier with life and work experience who
is trying to move the Province forward , and get the ballooning prov.
debt under control ; rather than bending to the special interest groups
all the time as the economy falls apart .
David R. Amos
@SarahRose Werner Methinks we
will know just exactly how much stability the government of Mr Higgs
has when it comes time for his foes to vote on his budget N'esy Pas?
Matt Steele
The Greens thought they were
going to be " King " makers , and be calling the shots . Instead they
have fallen into irrelevance . Every time Green MLA Kevin Arseneau
speaks , the Green Party loses more credibility .
David R. Amos
@Matt Steele YUP
David R. Amos
@Matt Steele "There has been an interesting story with possible N.B. political ties being reported elsewhere....google RCMP Officer Curtis Barrett for an interesting story ."
Methinks you should Google David Amos Kevin Vickers for some more interesting stories N'esy Pas?
Don Cafferty
"B.C. Premier John Horgan has
said his province can meet its carbon dioxide emission targets even
with LNG development. Higgs says that should prove to the New Brunswick
Greens that they can support shale gas here and still tackle climate
change." It is a false measure of success. Canada is grouped with
Russia, China and Saudi Arabia as the worst countries in the world for
contributing to carbon emissions. If all other countries behaved like
this group, the planet will have +5C degrees in global warming. If all
countries continue as they currently are, global warming will increase
more than 3C degrees. Everybody including New Brunswick needs to change
their focus and behaviour.
David R. Amos
@Don Cafferty Methinks many
would agree that you are practicing fear-mongering in order to assist in
the increase of taxation N'esy Pas?
Jim Cyr
@Don Cafferty Utter nonsense. It's a hoax. Everybody with two brain cells knows that.
Don Cafferty
@Jim Cyr The basic functional
unit of the brain is the neuron. On average, the human being has 86
billion neurons. You are correct. Two brain cells are inadequate.
Don Cafferty
@David R. Amos I actually
oppose the carbon tax. More stringent measures are required that changes
behaviour and it needs to affect all people including and especially
the rich and elite. The rich and elite have a much larger footprint on
this planet than do other people. For example, the airline industry has
surpassed all surface transportation in contributing to greenhouse gas.
The rich and elite use jets as if they were taxis. It is their behaviour
that especially needs to change. I am not willing to change my modest
behaviour until they change theirs. Leaders do need to set the example.
David R. Amos
@Don Cafferty Methinks you should ask Mr Higgs and Mr Trudeau why I sued the Crown in 2015 N'esy Pas
Lou Bell
Like Gallants " inside caucus
" Kevin Arseneau has played himself into irrelevance. The new " inside
man " of the SANB has played his card and lost.
David R. Amos
@Lou Bell Methinks it was a
rather telling thing when Brian Gallant refused to allow his old SANB
buddy Arseneau to run as a liberal N'esy Pas?
Tim Astle
I don't see anything new in this article that we didn't know of before.
Are CBC reporters mandated to try to make news? The article just seems like an attempt to try to stir up some trouble. It neglects to even bring up the fact that the Green Party chose to vote against the PC throne speech. Of course they wouldn't be heavily involved until some trust could be established.
Maybe we should have an article on why the Green party chose to not vote for the throne speech? Are they betting on a Liberal come-back long game, or did they make the wrong short / medium term decision by putting their own personal interests over that of our environment in which the party is supposed to represent?
I know I'd like to see the Green party focus on bringing an environmental perspective to our future. I have no idea what the Green party's focus is right now based on their current actions. Is the new green member, Kevin Arseneau now leading the greens? It seems like the party has lost its way.« less
Are CBC reporters mandated to try to make news? The article just seems like an attempt to try to stir up some trouble. It neglects to even bring up the fact that the Green Party chose to vote against the PC throne speech. Of course they wouldn't be heavily involved until some trust could be established.
Maybe we should have an article on why the Green party chose to not vote for the throne speech? Are they betting on a Liberal come-back long game, or did they make the wrong short / medium term decision by putting their own personal interests over that of our environment in which the party is supposed to represent?
I know I'd like to see the Green party focus on bringing an environmental perspective to our future. I have no idea what the Green party's focus is right now based on their current actions. Is the new green member, Kevin Arseneau now leading the greens? It seems like the party has lost its way.« less
David R. Amos
@Tim Astle "I don't see anything new in this article that we didn't know of before"
Me too.
"Are CBC reporters mandated to try to make news? The article just seems like an attempt to try to stir up some trouble."
Methinks they have carte blanche if they can put Conservatives in a bad light N'esy Pas?
"Kevin Arseneau now leading the greens? It seems like the party has lost its way"
Too Too Funny Indeed
Me too.
"Are CBC reporters mandated to try to make news? The article just seems like an attempt to try to stir up some trouble."
Methinks they have carte blanche if they can put Conservatives in a bad light N'esy Pas?
"Kevin Arseneau now leading the greens? It seems like the party has lost its way"
Too Too Funny Indeed
Emery Hyslop-Margison
@David R. Amos You're asking a
rhetorical question correct? The national broadcaster is obviously an
ideological arm of the Federal Liberal Party and works overtime to
instill fear in Canadians about climate change.
Pierre LaRoches
@Tim Astle Jacques Poitras gets bored and shares his opinions in the disguise of analysis and news.
David R. Amos
@Emery Hyslop-Margison "You're asking a rhetorical question correct?"
NOPE
Methinks the right wing political professor in you would have a hard time explaining this article about politics while Harper was the boss N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276
NOPE
Methinks the right wing political professor in you would have a hard time explaining this article about politics while Harper was the boss N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276
Jim Cyr
The CBC played it fair with
Higgs for exactly two weeks... now the hit pieces are coming every other
day (soon to be every day). You would never in a million years have
seen a headline like this or read an article such as this about Brian
the boy wonder. The narrative that is being set up with propaganda like
this is that Higgs is unreasonable and unfair. Smart people see
through it.
David R. Amos
@Jim Cyr "Smart people see through it."
Methinks I would not bet the farm on it Most folks vote for the colour of the coat anyway no matter what the media may say of their favourite political party Nesy Pas?
Methinks I would not bet the farm on it Most folks vote for the colour of the coat anyway no matter what the media may say of their favourite political party Nesy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
We live in a feudal system,
pretty well everywhere you live in the world, but more so in New
Brunswick. No government gets elected here without the blessing of the
lord. The main reason that governments run deficits has nothing to do
with the French or English. No matter who gets elected governs to please
the lord.
We run deficits because we give our natural resources to big multinationals that pit governments one against the other and that do not pay their fair share of taxes all the while getting subsidized with lavish government grants. However, they use our infrastructures and services without paying their fair share for them. They have access to our public lands to do clearcutting, cultivate cranberries and blueberries while leaving the little guy holding the bag at the mercy of these megacorporations leaving him getting a pittance for his wood, cranberries and blueberries from his private lands that he pays property taxes for. The big wheels organize their corporate structure so as not to make any profit here, but in their tax havens where they horde all their cash. No wonder out health services and infrastructures and deficits are in such dismal shape. Yet we keep electing people having ties to these corporate masters.
We run deficits because we give our natural resources to big multinationals that pit governments one against the other and that do not pay their fair share of taxes all the while getting subsidized with lavish government grants. However, they use our infrastructures and services without paying their fair share for them. They have access to our public lands to do clearcutting, cultivate cranberries and blueberries while leaving the little guy holding the bag at the mercy of these megacorporations leaving him getting a pittance for his wood, cranberries and blueberries from his private lands that he pays property taxes for. The big wheels organize their corporate structure so as not to make any profit here, but in their tax havens where they horde all their cash. No wonder out health services and infrastructures and deficits are in such dismal shape. Yet we keep electing people having ties to these corporate masters.
David R. Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks you SANB people have spin down to a fine art N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
@David R. Amos, as they say; don't hate the player, hate the game.
David R. Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps I am not playing games You are
daryl doucette
@Marguerite Deschamps you go girl
Brian Robertson
@Marguerite Deschamps
Quite an elaborate narrative, but without any credible evidence to back it up.
But, the point is simply meant agitate though, wasn't it.
Quite an elaborate narrative, but without any credible evidence to back it up.
But, the point is simply meant agitate though, wasn't it.
Marguerite Deschamps
@Brian Robertson, just watch the video on the right of this link. You can also buy the book of the presenter.
nbmediacoop.org/2019/01/01/a-call-to-action-by-anglophones-on-language-rights-in-new-brunswick/?fbclid=IwAR1TjTmSJIjS6-NBuCW98o9oiAngPx_tn5vmfJVJmCJd5y-8C4nErZnOrJ8
nbmediacoop.org/2019/01/01/a-call-to-action-by-anglophones-on-language-rights-in-new-brunswick/?fbclid=IwAR1TjTmSJIjS6-NBuCW98o9oiAngPx_tn5vmfJVJmCJd5y-8C4nErZnOrJ8
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David R. Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps
Methinks you and Alain Deneault the Endowed Chair in Criminology and
Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University should have come to Federal
Court and listened to me argue the Crown and a former General Counsel of
the Irving Clan right after I ran in the election of the 42nd
Parliament N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks the article within that link was a rather telling thing as well N'esy Pas?
SarahRose Werner
I laugh every time I hear the
Higgs government being described as part of the "blue wave." NB voters
haven't re-elected a Liberal government since McKenna in 1995. For the
past couple of decades, the pattern has been to get dissatisfied with
the Liberals, put the PCs in power for a term (or, in the case of
Bernard Lord, two terms), then get dissatisfied with the PCs and put the
Liberals back in power. This suggests that Higgs should have won with a
majority in 2018. Instead, he barely squeaked out a minority. That's
no "blue wave." It's barely a blue ripple.
David R. Amos
@SarahRose Werner Methinks
many can recall that Higgs had to wait until the last poll to be counted
in Jake Stewart's riding to know that it was not a tie N'esy Pas ?
Paul Bourgoin
If Higgs can confirm what New
Brunswick taxpayers have to gain financially by the supporting shale
gas exploitation versus the negative impact on New Brunswick’s
Environment. Also make public the accounting sheets of the cost, the
profits, where it goes with a contracted profit percentage for the
Province supported with a legislated profit margin. The Province of New
Brunswick makes no governmental subsidies available, or tax breaks to
the investors.
Marguerite Deschamps
@Paul Bourgoin, it will be business as usual, subsidies, tax break and all.
David R. Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps
Methinks whereas you admit to being a player in the wicked game I have
no doubt that you have your fingers in the cookie jar a time or two
N'esy Pas?
Paul Bourgoin
When will New Brunswick have a
Government by the People for the People not a Government selected by
the Rich for the Rich, who hand pick our Political Leaders!!
David R. Amos
@Paul Bourgoin Methinks it
would happen as soon as the majority of candidates elected were
Independents with no political party affiliations whatsoever N'esy Pas
Pas?
Brian Robertson
@Paul Bourgoin
Democracies invariably get the governments they deserve.
Democracies invariably get the governments they deserve.
David Peters
@Paul Bourgoin
Nothing will change till the monopolies are broken up. They have both sides of the coin.
Nothing will change till the monopolies are broken up. They have both sides of the coin.
David Peters
@Brian Robertson
...but we dont have a democracy in Canada. We have a Constitutional Monarchy. A democracy is mob rule and I don't think we want that.
...but we dont have a democracy in Canada. We have a Constitutional Monarchy. A democracy is mob rule and I don't think we want that.
Brian Robertson
@David Peters
I think if you check, it being a 'Constitutional' Monarchy consigns it to being a democracy with a Monarch as a figurehead.
The biggest flaw in our form of democracy is the lack of checks and balances.
With the current makeup of our Supreme Court, and the predominance of a left leaning media, once a small l liberal government reaches a majority, we in effect have an emperor for four years.
I think if you check, it being a 'Constitutional' Monarchy consigns it to being a democracy with a Monarch as a figurehead.
The biggest flaw in our form of democracy is the lack of checks and balances.
With the current makeup of our Supreme Court, and the predominance of a left leaning media, once a small l liberal government reaches a majority, we in effect have an emperor for four years.
David Peters
@Brian Robertson
Yes, and I think an elected Senate, Judiciary, Police Chiefs, and City Managers...all these positions elected with short term limits would help stem corruption.
Yes, and I think an elected Senate, Judiciary, Police Chiefs, and City Managers...all these positions elected with short term limits would help stem corruption.
David R. Amos
@David Peters Methinks many
Senators, Judges, Police Chiefs, and City Managers.should certainly
understand why I ran for public office 6 times thus far while being
illegally barred from parliamentary properties and suing the Crown about
it N'esy Pas?
Greg Smith
Here's an experiment for all the climate change deniers:
Go into your garage and start your car. Leave it running and sit in there all night. If you wake up tomorrow morning, THEN you can tell me that emissions have no effect on air quality. I know large scale problems are hard to grasp for small minds, but we're doing the same thing, except to the entire planet. It's really not that hard to understand.
Go into your garage and start your car. Leave it running and sit in there all night. If you wake up tomorrow morning, THEN you can tell me that emissions have no effect on air quality. I know large scale problems are hard to grasp for small minds, but we're doing the same thing, except to the entire planet. It's really not that hard to understand.
David R. Amos
@Greg Smith Methinks if I
were to use your logic I would ask you to go jump in a lake in order to
prove to me that water is no good for me N'esy Pas?
Fred Brewer
@Greg Smith
Good one Greg. I think in some cases, the deniers fall into this category:
It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It.
As a side note, in 2017 global carbon emissions exceeded 32 billion tons. CO2 being a gas is pretty light, so try to imagine the volume of 32 billion tons of CO2. It is pretty easy to see why our climate is changing (unless you work in the oil and gas sector).
Good one Greg. I think in some cases, the deniers fall into this category:
It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It.
As a side note, in 2017 global carbon emissions exceeded 32 billion tons. CO2 being a gas is pretty light, so try to imagine the volume of 32 billion tons of CO2. It is pretty easy to see why our climate is changing (unless you work in the oil and gas sector).
Greg Smith
@David R. Amos Except that water is an essential building block to all cellular life, whereas crude oil isn't. Hey, you tried.
Dan Lee
@David R. Amos
whats wrong with lake water?
whats wrong with lake water?
David Peters
@Greg Smith
...but fuel is already taxed severely...and co2 isn't even a pollutant.
Nothing but a thinly veiled money grab, imo.
https://blog.friendsofscience.org/2018/07/23/carbon-dioxide-is-a-pollutant/amp/
...but fuel is already taxed severely...and co2 isn't even a pollutant.
Nothing but a thinly veiled money grab, imo.
https://blog.friendsofscience.org/2018/07/23/carbon-dioxide-is-a-pollutant/amp/
Brian Robertson
@Greg Smith
Sorry Greg; but it's the carbon monoxide that would kill you.
Carbon dioxide is essential for life on this planet.
Sorry Greg; but it's the carbon monoxide that would kill you.
Carbon dioxide is essential for life on this planet.
Greg Smith
@Brian Robertson I’m
extremely aware of that. That was the point. While CO2 is essential,
when emitted in excess of what can be absorbed from the atmosphere by
vegetation (which is being harvested faster than it can regrow), then
yes, CO2 is also toxic at exponentially rising levels. The same can be
said of CO, NOX, Arsenic, and the many other pollutants found in
combustion related exhaust. You’re acting as if there’s only one
ingredient in exhaust fumes, when that is categorically untrue.
David R. Amos
@Greg Smith "Hey, you tried."
NOPE
NOPE
David R. Amos
@Dan Lee "whats wrong with lake water?"
Ask Mr Smith
Ask Mr Smith
Roland Godin
We vote because we like or
don't like, an intelligent irrational emotional reaction from the muscle
brawn side of the brain, preferring colourful politicians over
legislators with rationality, insight and discernment to legislate with
the essence of laws and its objects as a script of our Ways and
Means...et voilà .
David R. Amos
@Roland Godin Methinks you jest too much N'esy Pas?
Higgs willing to work with Greens — as long as it's on his terms
The New Brunswick premier says he's open to working with other parties
Premier Blaine Higgs says he hasn't
given up on cooperating with political parties other than the People's
Alliance in 2019 — but he says that could depend on the Green Party
seeing things his way on natural gas.
Higgs's Progressive Conservative minority government has so far cooperated closely with the Alliance, whose three MLAs give the Tories a functioning majority in the legislature.
Meanwhile, the Alliance's ideological opposites, the three-member Green caucus, has tended to vote with the opposition Liberals.
"The current bills have worked out that way," Higgs said in a year-end interview with CBC News.
"There has to still be opportunity. There's still a number of times that we would agree, that we would hope we can work across the floor with."
The Greens have complained that they have not been consulted by the PC government on issues ranging from carbon taxes to bilingual ambulance services.
Green MLA Kevin Arseneau said Premier Blaine Higgs has not consulted the Greens on issues they want to address. (CBC)
"They haven't shown any willingness to bring anything out that we want to bring forth to date," said Green MLA Kevin Arseneau. "Maybe it will change, but for now I don't feel there's been any consultation on anything."
In Higgs's throne speech on Nov. 20, the government promised to seek "common cause with women and men of good faith across party lines" and called on other parties to "embrace the challenge of shared governance."
The premier noted that the Liberal opposition voted with the government on a bill to change the powers of a tribunal that hears WorkSafe New Brunswick appeals.
Higgs said he hopes there will be more of that in the coming year. "I think this will develop," he said.
But Higgs's main idea for Green cooperation involves that party moving in his direction to support a homegrown natural gas industry, including shale gas development.
Green
Party Leader David Coon, left, and his MLAs have supported the Liberals
while People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin, right, have teamed up with
the Tories. (James West/Canadian Press)
Higgs
returned from a meeting with other premiers last month praising British
Columbia's NDP minority government for allowing shale gas development
and backing a planned liquefied natural gas export terminal — while
relying on the B.C. Green party to stay in power.
"It would be nice if the [New Brunswick] Greens could be a little different shade and maybe look like what B.C. is doing," Higgs said.
B.C. Premier John Horgan has said his province can meet its carbon dioxide emission targets even with LNG development.
Higgs says that should prove to the New Brunswick Greens that they can support shale gas here and still tackle climate change.
Horgan's NDP won 41 seats in B.C.'s 2017 election, two fewer than the incumbent Liberals. But the NDP took office after three Green members agreed to support the party on confidence and budget votes.
B.C.'s
Green leader says that doesn't mean his party supports LNG. "We've been
very clear that we will support no such legislation that would enable
this," Andrew Weaver said in an interview.
Higgs said despite that statement, the B.C. Greens are voting to keep the NDP in power, funded in part by gas revenue.
"They're quite happy to have other activities that are being paid for from this, and they're supporting the government, so I don't really know if he can make that differentiation," Higgs said.
Weaver said the difference is that with both main parties supporting LNG in British Columbia, the Greens accepted that it was going ahead and backed the party most willing to develop a real climate plan.
That ended up being the NDP, and Weaver says he's "cautiously optimistic" that B.C. can meet aggressive emissions targets even with LNG development, depending on the scale of the industry.
"I don't know where the premier of New Brunswick is getting his information from," Weaver said.
Higgs said last fall that he was working most closely with the Alliance because it was the first to promise to vote with his party to keep the government in power.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and PracticesHiggs's Progressive Conservative minority government has so far cooperated closely with the Alliance, whose three MLAs give the Tories a functioning majority in the legislature.
Meanwhile, the Alliance's ideological opposites, the three-member Green caucus, has tended to vote with the opposition Liberals.
"The current bills have worked out that way," Higgs said in a year-end interview with CBC News.
"There has to still be opportunity. There's still a number of times that we would agree, that we would hope we can work across the floor with."
The Greens have complained that they have not been consulted by the PC government on issues ranging from carbon taxes to bilingual ambulance services.
"They haven't shown any willingness to bring anything out that we want to bring forth to date," said Green MLA Kevin Arseneau. "Maybe it will change, but for now I don't feel there's been any consultation on anything."
In Higgs's throne speech on Nov. 20, the government promised to seek "common cause with women and men of good faith across party lines" and called on other parties to "embrace the challenge of shared governance."
Develop cooperation
The premier noted that the Liberal opposition voted with the government on a bill to change the powers of a tribunal that hears WorkSafe New Brunswick appeals.
Higgs said he hopes there will be more of that in the coming year. "I think this will develop," he said.
But Higgs's main idea for Green cooperation involves that party moving in his direction to support a homegrown natural gas industry, including shale gas development.
"It would be nice if the [New Brunswick] Greens could be a little different shade and maybe look like what B.C. is doing," Higgs said.
B.C. Premier John Horgan has said his province can meet its carbon dioxide emission targets even with LNG development.
Higgs says that should prove to the New Brunswick Greens that they can support shale gas here and still tackle climate change.
Horgan's NDP won 41 seats in B.C.'s 2017 election, two fewer than the incumbent Liberals. But the NDP took office after three Green members agreed to support the party on confidence and budget votes.
There is a difference
Higgs said despite that statement, the B.C. Greens are voting to keep the NDP in power, funded in part by gas revenue.
"They're quite happy to have other activities that are being paid for from this, and they're supporting the government, so I don't really know if he can make that differentiation," Higgs said.
Weaver said the difference is that with both main parties supporting LNG in British Columbia, the Greens accepted that it was going ahead and backed the party most willing to develop a real climate plan.
That ended up being the NDP, and Weaver says he's "cautiously optimistic" that B.C. can meet aggressive emissions targets even with LNG development, depending on the scale of the industry.
"I don't know where the premier of New Brunswick is getting his information from," Weaver said.
Higgs said last fall that he was working most closely with the Alliance because it was the first to promise to vote with his party to keep the government in power.
