Private Donations? Robbie Burns Returns to Fredericton

Too bad the entire statue could not have been funded privately, but halfway is a good start.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Irving for stepping forward and donating their money to this.

It Could be Worse

This is staggeringly astonishing that Bernanke could state this.

http://business.financialpost.com/2011/07/13/not-raising-debt-ceiling-like-refusing-to-pay-your-credit-card-bernanke/

And we think politicians are stupid.

It really has nothing to do with New Brunswick government incompetence, but does highlight stupidity goes clear to the top.

Only in Fredericton

So the residents of Fredericton are about to acquire a strip joint.

The Movie Monkey Business

The taxpayers of New Brunswick are back in the movie business.

Giving away money to Investors, Actors, Directors, Producers and Technicians was such a good idea, they cancelled the free loot a few months ago.

But that was a few months ago, before Economic Development Minister Paul Robichaud realized the vote-purchasing could be had in his area of expertise, the Acadian Peninsula.

Now Minister Robichaud has never met a vote-buying scheme he didn't like, so it is not surprising he is so newly enamored with the film industry.

If subsidizing this industry it is such a good idea today, why was it such a bad idea a few months ago? Were the old filmmakers in ridings the Tories did not win last year? Do filmmakers not vote PC? Is the current crop of taxpayer cash recipients better connected than the ones who got spurned before?


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This vote-buying vignette has been made possible by the taxpayers of New Brunswick and Canada.