Lord has to play his petty political games and make his Conservative friends happy in Ottawa. Moreover, through these tactics he thinks he can become the leader of the National Conservative party. It is all about Lord. Our children are being held hostages.
His real self is so well revealed during the by-election in Saint John. In the Voice of the Province, question of vote buying by Hooton campaign was raised. It is a shame. The candidate is losing her credibility by these tactics if she had any to start with.
Charles get the FACTS before you print a story.. Question, how much money have the provinces received since they signed the "child care agreement"?....$0000000.00. That's right there has been no money been given out yet so what is the fuss all about?? We need to rethink what is being said. Nearly 1/3 of New Brunswickers live in rural N.B.. And none of them would receive any of this funding. Is this fair?? I live in rural N.B. myself and I can't understand how people are fighting this issue. Quebec offered nearly the same deal that N.B. did to Ottawa and they received it, why can't N.B.????
This deal is not acceptable to all my rural N.B. friends. So Keep telling Bernard Lord to say no to this "child care" agreement, because we will not receive one red cent from this deal if Bernard signs it.
On the contrary, it's the feds holding our children hostage. What Lord is proposing is fair for all parents in NB not just the families where both parents work and use daycare. I really don't think parents who either have decided to have one parent home or who have other family memberslooking after the kids, (aunt, grandparent, etc.) should be subsidizing daycare for couples who are both working because they want to drive a new Lexus, have a big house, and vacation in the Bahamas and they are a big chunk of those who would have the gov't subsidized daycare. That's the side of this story we don't hear in the Media. Lord's proposal is fair for all parents because all parents get something not just some.
9:27 PM would we get childcare money if he does not sign? You mean to say that Newfoundland and Nova Scotia are not that smart that they signed the deal and many other provinces done so including another very Conservative province Alberta. Lord is causing lot of bad relations with feds by not signing the deal.
I get a good laugh about comments like 9:27 PM!!!...lol...there's two editors in this blog. Myself and artist WCIE are giving out our views on different issues. In this case? Artist WCIE gave his views via the picture....I really don't know the details about this issue. Lets leave it to the readers.....
What will be the accountability if money is given directly to parents? How one knows that they are spending for the purpose that they are receiving money for. You have to really expand the red tape and bureaucracy to adminiters such program effectively and less share for childcare. Our children are being held captive to the petty politics of Bernard Lord.
9:34 I have to say that the reason why Bernard Lord won't sign is because he doesn't fall in line like most people do that is what makes him who he is. You can say what you want but why would Alberta care what the deal is? Anythning they get is a BONUS, they are a debt free province so it's all money in the Bank. How come a Liberal Government isn't tapping into Alberta's Profit margine on Oil?? Cause a conserative government will stand up to a Liberal government and not just fall in line and take whatever is offered to him. We all pay Income tax in N.B. so we should all have a piece of that money.
Accountability 9:38? Mom or Dad are looking after the kids. When Mom or Dad decides to stay at home with the kids, they're taking a financial hit, why should they not benefit from this child care program too?
9:40 PM is getting hot under the collar. Must be hurting. Sorry pal but those are the facts that your leader Bernard Lord, I mean Bernard Lord, is politically screwed. Like it or not. Too bad for Bernard Lord. Bernard Lord will be history soon. Bye bye Bernie or Bernard Lord he likes to be called.
I don't care about Lord, or Martin, but I'll tell you one thing. The day Ottawa starts dictating (and that IS what it is) how our children should be raised, we will have to revolt against our government.
Paul Martin is NOT my Prime Minister.
If the liberals take one more step toward controlling how Canadians should think, we'll need to rise up. It is our constitutional duty.
The Paul Martin liberals do not care about your kids, my kids, or kids at all. ALL they care about is feeding your children with their message. We need to stop worrying about NB and start worrying about Canada. The Liberals are pissing on S(91) and S(92), they think that health care is there business, they think that education is there business. It is LONG past due that we sent Ottawa back to where they should be, at the bottom of the political pile.
A liberal desperate?? Must be, that is all a liberal will do. NONE whatsoever of an intelligent answer. Use the scare method doesn't bother me, but I want NON LIbEralS to see the facts just not your one sided answers. Just look what a liberal government is doing in Ottawa, Canada in a whole doesn't want liberals and doesn't want to hear Liberal Propaganda crap, they are sick of it
I see Bernard Lord supporters will stoop so low that they start name calling. 9:40 PM you are Bernard Lord supporter otherwise you will not be using gutter language. Many facets of Bernard Lord and his supporters.
Well once we get a liberal government out of Ottawa the rest of the country will realize that we would have more money coming back to N.B. through our Income tax. Sponsorship SCANDAL that's right SPONSORSHIP SCANDAL.
Not signing childcare agreement and gas tax rebate is hurting NB. There is politics involved. Too bad we have such bad relation with federal government. Thank you Lord for creating yet another mess besides Orimulsion, LNG, hospital closures and on and on.
Ya let's not forget that Orimulsion had to deal with UPGRADE to Colson COVE. Liberals let them burn Bunker Oil strait into the air without scrubber. Thanks for poisoning our water and air Frank.
NOT signing the Feds child care deal is the only thing between us and communism!
I kid you not, you let the liberals control your childrem and thats when Canada ends.
We are free people, and we have had decades of Liberal rule, am I any better off? NONE.
Our liberal government plays lapdog to socialist economies and wants Canada to be a comunist Country so that Paul Martin (who was born with a siler spoon in his mouth!!!!!!!!) can be leader and tell us how to think. This is not rocket science folks, it it time we sent Ottawa a message, and that is to vote them out!!!!
This has nothing to do with Lord, this has everything to do with Ottawa. Can't you see, they want us Maritimers to draw lines between us and come clawing back to them....We are Maritmers, we don't need their sinful money, we're fine!
WE were a Union before upper Canada came along to fuck it up and we need to go back to that.
Related story on this discussion published today for anyone who is interested.
Preschool Damages Children’s Social Skills and Emotional Development
By Terry Vanderheyden
BERKELEY, California, November 10, 2005 – Preschool has a negative effect on a child’s social and emotional development, according to a study of 14,000 US preschool children.
The new research from University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University, found that the social skills of white, middle-class children suffer – in terms of cooperation, sharing and engagement in classroom tasks – after attending preschool centers for more than six hours a day, compared to similar children who remain at home with a parent prior to starting school.
“The biggest eye-opener is that the suppression of social and emotional development, stemming from long hours in preschool, is felt most strongly by children from better-off families,” said UC Berkeley sociologist and co-author Bruce Fuller.
On average, the report found that the earlier a child enters a preschool center, the slower his or her pace of social development. “Our results for the intensity of attending a center program – measured in hours per week and months per year – are worrisome, while varying across different types of families and children,” the report stated.
A growing list of state governors is making large investments to offer free, publicly-supported preschools for all children, echoing advocate’s claims that this will boost the early learning of most children.
A Liberal government proposal to provide state-funded daycare to all preschool children suggests that Canada must commence full time governmental child care earlier – at age three – for “all kids at all times.” Liberal MP Maria Minna went so far last fall as to stress that state-controlled “early education” programs are “very fundamental to the development of the child.”
A Harvard Longitudinal Study found that daycare children are significantly disadvantaged in later life by the inability to form psychological attachments. The younger the age at which children are put in daycare, the worse is this effect.
A study released in 2001 found that the more hours children spend in daycare, the more likely they are to become aggressive, disobedient, and defiant by the time they are in kindergarten.
Morningstar Educational Network sponsors a national outreach called Considering Homeschooling Ministry, which encourages parents to care for and preschool their young children at home. “These negative social behaviors children are displaying are getting worse,” said Denise Kanter, a Morningstar research advisor. “In December of 2003, Time Magazine reported on the consequences of negative emotional and social problems among young children. In Time’s report, the child-advocacy group Partnership for Children survey showed that 93 percent of 39 schools responding said kindergartners today “have more emotional and behavioral problems than were seen just five years ago.”
A majority of day-care centers, which host the tiniest tots, revealed that “incidents of rage and anger” have increased over the past three years. Time’s further quotes the survey leader as explaining, “We’re talking about children – a 3-year-old in one instance – who will take a fork and stab another child in the forehead. We’re talking about a wide range of explosive behaviors, and it’s a growing problem.”
This is what I truly enjoy about artist WCIE work! He don't have to have about anything. just do the picture and let the readers debate the issue in a good way!!!
Rural voters got turned off after Lord closed or is closing rural hospitals. Now he is trying to play benefactor through childcare and gas tax rebate politics, that he is doing it for rural folks. I do not think rural population is buying this newest ploy by Lord and his government. Let us face it folks that most all other provinces have signed it including two Atlantic provinces. All these provinces cannot be wrong. Give me a break.
To the poster up above, you are not talking about socialism OR communism, you are talking about fascism. A central government which controls all aspects of the state is FASCISM. Socialism has ALL PEOPLE controlling all aspects of their society.
However, once again the debate misses a central point:NAFTA. Under Nafta competition rules governments CANNOT create NEW programs that compete with private industry or they can be sued for that amount by the private suppliers. Ontario already has money, while NS and NFLD both accept what all the provinces accept-which is that the money HAS to go to private child care providers or they will be SUED. This is why the feds won't give them money, because the federal government is in charge of enforcing NAFTA provisions.
As usual I know people will simply say it has nothing to do with it, but it has everything to do with. If it weren't for Nafta do you really think the feds give a rat's ass whether a kid is educated by a private company or does it themselves? Where possible a party will always try to please as many constituents as possible, unless there is a policy reason.
Of course if Lord had a brain he could probably do it under the table, if he didn't go shooting off his mouth-but then that wouldn't be politic. For example, you could just dumb down the regulations for recognizing a day care, then have a form that says that each parent who collects is technically a private child care provider. But I suppose that requires brains.
Fascism/socialism - po-tay-toes, po-tah-toes. Neither is a good idea. Far too extremist and anytime either is taken to the nth degree, the "people" always lose.
If you give money directly to parents lot more administerative is required to make sure someone is not gouging the system. It will be a huge clientale. Too much dollars will be spent on administeration which should be going to childcare. It just will not work.
Lord is playing politics to win back rural voters. That will not work either.
What is all the fuss is that they have money and now is the time to at least give some of it for the littles ones now not when they are in school struggling, help is needed now not when Premier is ready, kids are falling between the cracks. Help now! He sure has money to help his corporate Billionaire friends. Wake up to what is going on. Now! These are children not ars or buildings.
Bernard Lord will make sure that ALL of N.B. will get a cut of this child care agreement. Liberal supporters try to change topic but the truth is that this deal is unfair to Rural N.B.. Let's get a deal like Quebec offered to us then we will sign the deal but as of right now the deal is a no go.
All the other provinces who signed the deal are not that smart according to you 12:24 PM and Bernard Lord is special. Come on now.
Truth is he screwed in the process of playing politics. Our relations with feds are all times low because of an incompetent leader we have. Any smart leader would have gotten funding for Point Lepreau but Lord's politics got in the way.
Do you not uderstand that Ottawa has neglected us to the point where we are not even on the same page as the rest of Canada. Liberals in Ottawa bring nothing here, how come we got $0.00 from ottawa to upgrade our Nuclear power plant and Ontario got $2,000,000.00? This is more then Bernard Lord this is Ottawa neglecting N.B.. A conservative government built Lepreau and a Conservative government is the one who is going to Refurbish it. Paul Martin and Andy Scott have got to go. Look at the Native communities they are going to revolt aginst the Liberals and put somebody new in Ottawa to govern Canada.
You said it. Other provinces are getting the deal left and right-Nova Scotia, Newfewland included. Why are we not getting any deal because Bernard is in the way. His stupid politics has turned of federal bureaucrats who probably are advising the Prime Minister and other Ministers to screw Bernard Lord. Unfortunately whole province is getting screwed. If we want our fair share Bernard Lord has to get out of the way. Relations are too poisnous because of Bernard Lord.
We have to put our own house in order before we can reform the world.
It might be a new government after the next federal election so be careful who you cosy up too. Still 12:24 is right, rural NB gets ripped off big time in the feds deal because they get nothing. Folks in the city with the fancy houses and two cars get subsidized daycare. Great deal if you live in Toronto, not so good if you live in Millville. Where's the fairness in that?
2:01 the bottom line is there is no money yet. What is so hard to understand??? NO MONEY means NO MONEY. Bernard will sign when the deal is right for N.B. and that is why we are a rural province. The deal is not fair for us Rural NBERS
Here's the political solution. Lord wants money for home day-care providers, the feds say no-only private day cares. So, you agree with the feds, then get the money, then give a provincial tax credit to the rural parents in the amount you would give them for home day care, and add a small tax to private day care providers in the city to cover the amount. Problem solved.
Lord is not in the business of solving problems. He is too busy playing his stupid little politics and creating umpteen amount of problems in the process.
As his current Energy Conservation chair, Ms. Weir once said, "Lord is a legend, in his own mind." He should realize that other than blabbering his mouth he has not got it to be a leader.
I really like that idea 11:37. The problem is the private day-care would revolt and the political merery go round would start all over again with the Liberals accusing the Tories of taxing daycares. I can see the headline now. In a non-political word though you have a great idea. I just can't see it flying.
He is getting headlines now for not signing the agreement. What is the differnece? He should sign the damn deal like other provinces. Other Atlantic provinces have done it. Why Bernard Lord is dragging his feet to be like Quebec. He is playing petty politics. He thought there would be federal elections early this year and Conservative would form the government. That is when he played his short-sighted politics and things have been downhill since.
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Lord has to play his petty political games and make his Conservative friends happy in Ottawa. Moreover, through these tactics he thinks he can become the leader of the National Conservative party. It is all about Lord. Our children are being held hostages.
His real self is so well revealed during the by-election in Saint John. In the Voice of the Province, question of vote buying by Hooton campaign was raised. It is a shame. The candidate is losing her credibility by these tactics if she had any to start with.
Charles get the FACTS before you print a story.. Question, how much money have the provinces received since they signed the "child care agreement"?....$0000000.00. That's right there has been no money been given out yet so what is the fuss all about?? We need to rethink what is being said. Nearly 1/3 of New Brunswickers live in rural N.B.. And none of them would receive any of this funding. Is this fair?? I live in rural N.B. myself and I can't understand how people are fighting this issue. Quebec offered nearly the same deal that N.B. did to Ottawa and they received it, why can't N.B.????
This deal is not acceptable to all my rural N.B. friends. So Keep telling Bernard Lord to say no to this "child care" agreement, because we will not receive one red cent from this deal if Bernard signs it.
On the contrary, it's the feds holding our children hostage. What Lord is proposing is fair for all parents in NB not just the families where both parents work and use daycare. I really don't think parents who either have decided to have one parent home or who have other family memberslooking after the kids, (aunt, grandparent, etc.) should be subsidizing daycare for couples who are both working because they want to drive a new Lexus, have a big house, and vacation in the Bahamas and they are a big chunk of those who would have the gov't subsidized daycare. That's the side of this story we don't hear in the Media. Lord's proposal is fair for all parents because all parents get something not just some.
9:27 PM would we get childcare money if he does not sign? You mean to say that Newfoundland and Nova Scotia are not that smart that they signed the deal and many other provinces done so including another very Conservative province Alberta. Lord is causing lot of bad relations with feds by not signing the deal.
I get a good laugh about comments like
9:27 PM!!!...lol...there's two editors in this blog. Myself and artist WCIE are giving out our views on different issues. In this case? Artist WCIE gave his views via the picture....I really don't know the details about this issue. Lets leave it to the readers.....
What will be the accountability if money is given directly to parents? How one knows that they are spending for the purpose that they are receiving money for. You have to really expand the red tape and bureaucracy to adminiters such program effectively and less share for childcare. Our children are being held captive to the petty politics of Bernard Lord.
9:34 I have to say that the reason why Bernard Lord won't sign is because he doesn't fall in line like most people do that is what makes him who he is. You can say what you want but why would Alberta care what the deal is? Anythning they get is a BONUS, they are a debt free province so it's all money in the Bank. How come a Liberal Government isn't tapping into Alberta's Profit margine on Oil?? Cause a conserative government will stand up to a Liberal government and not just fall in line and take whatever is offered to him. We all pay Income tax in N.B. so we should all have a piece of that money.
What about Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. They signed the deal. What is so special about Bernard Lord. Politics and more politics.
9:41 nice response you have sort of like Shawn
Accountability 9:38? Mom or Dad are looking after the kids. When Mom or Dad decides to stay at home with the kids, they're taking a financial hit, why should they not benefit from this child care program too?
9:40 PM Hitler's name is mentioned to this day and quite often and he killed himself some 60 years ago. What does that tell you.
9:40 PM is getting hot under the collar. Must be hurting. Sorry pal but those are the facts that your leader Bernard Lord, I mean Bernard Lord, is politically screwed. Like it or not. Too bad for Bernard Lord. Bernard Lord will be history soon. Bye bye Bernie or Bernard Lord he likes to be called.
I don't care about Lord, or Martin, but I'll tell you one thing. The day Ottawa starts dictating (and that IS what it is) how our children should be raised, we will have to revolt against our government.
Paul Martin is NOT my Prime Minister.
If the liberals take one more step toward controlling how Canadians should think, we'll need to rise up. It is our constitutional duty.
The Paul Martin liberals do not care about your kids, my kids, or kids at all. ALL they care about is feeding your children with their message. We need to stop worrying about NB and start worrying about Canada. The Liberals are pissing on S(91) and S(92), they think that health care is there business, they think that education is there business. It is LONG past due that we sent Ottawa back to where they should be, at the bottom of the political pile.
A liberal desperate?? Must be, that is all a liberal will do. NONE whatsoever of an intelligent answer. Use the scare method doesn't bother me, but I want NON LIbEralS to see the facts just not your one sided answers. Just look what a liberal government is doing in Ottawa, Canada in a whole doesn't want liberals and doesn't want to hear Liberal Propaganda crap, they are sick of it
I see Bernard Lord supporters will stoop so low that they start name calling. 9:40 PM you are Bernard Lord supporter otherwise you will not be using gutter language. Many facets of Bernard Lord and his supporters.
Well once we get a liberal government out of Ottawa the rest of the country will realize that we would have more money coming back to N.B. through our Income tax. Sponsorship SCANDAL that's right SPONSORSHIP SCANDAL.
Not signing childcare agreement and gas tax rebate is hurting NB. There is politics involved. Too bad we have such bad relation with federal government. Thank you Lord for creating yet another mess besides Orimulsion, LNG, hospital closures and on and on.
Ya let's not forget that Orimulsion had to deal with UPGRADE to Colson COVE. Liberals let them burn Bunker Oil strait into the air without scrubber. Thanks for poisoning our water and air Frank.
NOT signing the Feds child care deal is the only thing between us and communism!
I kid you not, you let the liberals control your childrem and thats when Canada ends.
We are free people, and we have had decades of Liberal rule, am I any better off? NONE.
Our liberal government plays lapdog to socialist economies and wants Canada to be a comunist Country so that Paul Martin (who was born with a siler spoon in his mouth!!!!!!!!) can be leader and tell us how to think. This is not rocket science folks, it it time we sent Ottawa a message, and that is to vote them out!!!!
This has nothing to do with Lord, this has everything to do with Ottawa. Can't you see, they want us Maritimers to draw lines between us and come clawing back to them....We are Maritmers, we don't need their sinful money, we're fine!
WE were a Union before upper Canada came along to fuck it up and we need to go back to that.
Related story on this discussion published today for anyone who is interested.
Preschool Damages Children’s Social Skills and Emotional Development
By Terry Vanderheyden
BERKELEY, California, November 10, 2005 – Preschool has a negative effect on a child’s social and emotional development, according to a study of 14,000 US preschool children.
The new research from University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University, found that the social skills of white, middle-class children suffer – in terms of cooperation, sharing and engagement in classroom tasks – after attending preschool centers for more than six hours a day, compared to similar children who remain at home with a parent prior to starting school.
“The biggest eye-opener is that the suppression of social and emotional development, stemming from long hours in preschool, is felt most strongly by children from better-off families,” said UC Berkeley sociologist and co-author Bruce Fuller.
On average, the report found that the earlier a child enters a preschool center, the slower his or her pace of social development. “Our results for the intensity of attending a center program – measured in hours per week and months per year – are worrisome, while varying across different types of families and children,” the report stated.
A growing list of state governors is making large investments to offer free, publicly-supported preschools for all children, echoing advocate’s claims that this will boost the early learning of most children.
A Liberal government proposal to provide state-funded daycare to all preschool children suggests that Canada must commence full time governmental child care earlier – at age three – for “all kids at all times.” Liberal MP Maria Minna went so far last fall as to stress that state-controlled “early education” programs are “very fundamental to the development of the child.”
A Harvard Longitudinal Study found that daycare children are significantly disadvantaged in later life by the inability to form psychological attachments. The younger the age at which children are put in daycare, the worse is this effect.
A study released in 2001 found that the more hours children spend in daycare, the more likely they are to become aggressive, disobedient, and defiant by the time they are in kindergarten.
Morningstar Educational Network sponsors a national outreach called Considering Homeschooling Ministry, which encourages parents to care for and preschool their young children at home. “These negative social behaviors children are displaying are getting worse,” said Denise Kanter, a Morningstar research advisor. “In December of 2003, Time Magazine reported on the consequences of negative emotional and social problems among young children. In Time’s report, the child-advocacy group Partnership for Children survey showed that 93 percent of 39 schools responding said kindergartners today “have more emotional and behavioral problems than were seen just five years ago.”
A majority of day-care centers, which host the tiniest tots, revealed that “incidents of rage and anger” have increased over the past three years. Time’s further quotes the survey leader as explaining, “We’re talking about children – a 3-year-old in one instance – who will take a fork and stab another child in the forehead. We’re talking about a wide range of explosive behaviors, and it’s a growing problem.”
This is what I truly enjoy about artist WCIE work! He don't have to have about anything. just do the picture and let the readers debate the issue in a good way!!!
Rural voters got turned off after Lord closed or is closing rural hospitals. Now he is trying to play benefactor through childcare and gas tax rebate politics, that he is doing it for rural folks. I do not think rural population is buying this newest ploy by Lord and his government. Let us face it folks that most all other provinces have signed it including two Atlantic provinces. All these provinces cannot be wrong. Give me a break.
To the poster up above, you are not talking about socialism OR communism, you are talking about fascism. A central government which controls all aspects of the state is FASCISM. Socialism has ALL PEOPLE controlling all aspects of their society.
However, once again the debate misses a central point:NAFTA. Under Nafta competition rules governments CANNOT create NEW programs that compete with private industry or they can be sued for that amount by the private suppliers. Ontario already has money, while NS and NFLD both accept what all the provinces accept-which is that the money HAS to go to private child care providers or they will be SUED. This is why the feds won't give them money, because the federal government is in charge of enforcing NAFTA provisions.
As usual I know people will simply say it has nothing to do with it, but it has everything to do with. If it weren't for Nafta do you really think the feds give a rat's ass whether a kid is educated by a private company or does it themselves? Where possible a party will always try to please as many constituents as possible, unless there is a policy reason.
Of course if Lord had a brain he could probably do it under the table, if he didn't go shooting off his mouth-but then that wouldn't be politic. For example, you could just dumb down the regulations for recognizing a day care, then have a form that says that each parent who collects is technically a private child care provider. But I suppose that requires brains.
Fascism/socialism - po-tay-toes, po-tah-toes. Neither is a good idea. Far too extremist and anytime either is taken to the nth degree, the "people" always lose.
If you give money directly to parents lot more administerative is required to make sure someone is not gouging the system. It will be a huge clientale. Too much dollars will be spent on administeration which should be going to childcare. It just will not work.
Lord is playing politics to win back rural voters. That will not work either.
What is all the fuss is that they have money and now is the time to at least give some of it for the littles ones now not when they are in school struggling, help is needed now not when Premier is ready, kids are falling between the cracks. Help now! He sure has money to help his corporate Billionaire friends. Wake up to what is going on. Now! These are children not ars or buildings.
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Bernard Lord will make sure that ALL of N.B. will get a cut of this child care agreement. Liberal supporters try to change topic but the truth is that this deal is unfair to Rural N.B.. Let's get a deal like Quebec offered to us then we will sign the deal but as of right now the deal is a no go.
All the other provinces who signed the deal are not that smart according to you 12:24 PM and Bernard Lord is special. Come on now.
Truth is he screwed in the process of playing politics. Our relations with feds are all times low because of an incompetent leader we have. Any smart leader would have gotten funding for Point Lepreau but Lord's politics got in the way.
Do you not uderstand that Ottawa has neglected us to the point where we are not even on the same page as the rest of Canada. Liberals in Ottawa bring nothing here, how come we got $0.00 from ottawa to upgrade our Nuclear power plant and Ontario got $2,000,000.00? This is more then Bernard Lord this is Ottawa neglecting N.B.. A conservative government built Lepreau and a Conservative government is the one who is going to Refurbish it. Paul Martin and Andy Scott have got to go. Look at the Native communities they are going to revolt aginst the Liberals and put somebody new in Ottawa to govern Canada.
You said it. Other provinces are getting the deal left and right-Nova Scotia, Newfewland included. Why are we not getting any deal because Bernard is in the way. His stupid politics has turned of federal bureaucrats who probably are advising the Prime Minister and other Ministers to screw Bernard Lord. Unfortunately whole province is getting screwed. If we want our fair share Bernard Lord has to get out of the way. Relations are too poisnous because of Bernard Lord.
We have to put our own house in order before we can reform the world.
It might be a new government after the next federal election so be careful who you cosy up too. Still 12:24 is right, rural NB gets ripped off big time in the feds deal because they get nothing. Folks in the city with the fancy houses and two cars get subsidized daycare. Great deal if you live in Toronto, not so good if you live in Millville. Where's the fairness in that?
Harper landing in the Prime Minister's office? We have a better chance landing a man on the Mars.
2:01 the bottom line is there is no money yet. What is so hard to understand??? NO MONEY means NO MONEY. Bernard will sign when the deal is right for N.B. and that is why we are a rural province. The deal is not fair for us Rural NBERS
5:59 PM the way Bernard Lord is operating their will be NO MONEY, period. We are missing the bus to reach the destination.
Here's the political solution. Lord wants money for home day-care providers, the feds say no-only private day cares. So, you agree with the feds, then get the money, then give a provincial tax credit to the rural parents in the amount you would give them for home day care, and add a small tax to private day care providers in the city to cover the amount. Problem solved.
Lord is not in the business of solving problems. He is too busy playing his stupid little politics and creating umpteen amount of problems in the process.
As his current Energy Conservation chair, Ms. Weir once said, "Lord is a legend, in his own mind." He should realize that other than blabbering his mouth he has not got it to be a leader.
I really like that idea 11:37. The problem is the private day-care would revolt and the political merery go round would start all over again with the Liberals accusing the Tories of taxing daycares. I can see the headline now. In a non-political word though you have a great idea. I just can't see it flying.
He is getting headlines now for not signing the agreement. What is the differnece? He should sign the damn deal like other provinces. Other Atlantic provinces have done it. Why Bernard Lord is dragging his feet to be like Quebec. He is playing petty politics. He thought there would be federal elections early this year and Conservative would form the government. That is when he played his short-sighted politics and things have been downhill since.
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