UPDATED: Very, Very, VERY Important People, and the Newspapermen Who Heed Their Wishes

The original post follows below.

Seems the Telegraph Journal has taken down the story linked below.

Not sure why, but here are some possibilities.

1. Mistakes in the story. Could be, but why not fix and a retraction?

2. The government carrot. The government offered them something worth more than the reputation of their flagship New Brunswick daily.

3. The government stick. Government threatened to punish them harshly, since they are in terribly over-regulated businesses, they understand the cost of even more draconian regulations.


Original Post

It seems the people of New Brunswick have been hosed to the tune of $810,000 in six months so they can fly around the province instead of drive like everyone else.


All these Cabinet Ministers are staffed with Executive Assistants. The EA can drive while the good minister rests.


Read about it here


These are the things that average New Brunswickers lose their minds over.


Sell the damn plane. And for those ministers that feel the need to use the plane, be prepared for the disgust of the people.