We are the only area in the world that is surrounded by Ontario, Quebec, The U.S., P.E.I., Nova Scotia and NewFoundland.
We have lots of traffic and no tolls!!!
Yes, New brunswick is indeed a beautiful place to travel but at the expense of the taxpayes!!!!
The rich are making millions!!!!
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Another four years and more blood-sucking of NB taxpayers.
I do not think Liberals will install tolls again. However, public blood is being sucked in number of ways and it must stop.
What does this have to do with Doug Young? If you're going to be a blogger how about actually explaining what you are talking about and not just posting random tidbits that people don't understand.
Yeah! What is the relevance of Doug Young? Explain a bit.
Doug Young is part of the group that receives a lot of money from the taxpayers to run the new four lane highway.
It's still a toll but a silent one.
On June 2 last year the voters of Acadie—Bathurst decided not to send Doug Young back to Parliament. That should tell the government something. When the voters in someone's own area know enough not to put him back here, nobody should be listening to him.
But it seems, as the Globe and Mail put it, Doug Young has remained in the power game. The knowledge he got while at Transport Canada is proving to be very profitable for him because the Bayside Ports situation is not the only situation. While transport minister Doug Young finalized the privatization of Canadian National railway, guess who was his first client at the consulting firm, as the House heard from my colleague from the Reform Party: Paul Tellier, chairman and chief executive officer of CN.
That is not all. In 1995 Doug Young, while he was in the federal cabinet, made a deal with the province of New Brunswick, a federal-provincial highway agreement. Have I got a deal for you. Now Doug Young heads the international consortium Maritime Road Development Corp. which was awarded a contract to build a four lane divided highway in southern New Brunswick. The province of New Brunswick will then lease the road from the private owners and travellers will have to pay tolls on the 195 kilometre stretch, including the 23 kilometre section built as part of the highway agreement signed by Doug Young in 1995.
During the next 30 years it is estimated New Brunswick taxpayers and the travelling public will pay out $2.6 billion in lease payments and tolls. They are going to pay tolls to a company headed by Doug Young, former transport minister, to drive on a section of highway that was funded by the federal and provincial governments.
It is hard to believe this is not a conflict of interest. Doug Young will be benefiting at the expense of New Brunswickers. We could have read in the newspaper that the present Minister of Transport has asked the deputy minister to begin discussions with provincial counterparts to find ways of protecting future public investments in highways when they are transferred to private hands. If that is not reason enough to question Doug Young's credibility, nothing is. I commend the Minister of Transport for his action but we need to go further.
Are you liberals sorry you asked?
There is lots more---
I knew someone would step forward and explain...
This is what I love about blogging....you never know who's reading???
Merci!!!!
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