Saint John workers 'attacked'

CBC is reporting that Jamie Hachey, President of the Saint John Police Association, is extremely upset that the city is broke.

No, actually he is upset that the city may finally do something about their abysmal financial situation.

The City of Saint John is driving residents away. Maybe de-indexing pensions is better than bankruptcy, but Mr. Hachey does not seem to care how broke the city is, how shoddy the infrastructure is, or how many people leave the city to get away from runaway staffing costs inflating their tax bills and eating up city taxes that could be spent fixing roads.

Those who cannot afford to move to Quispamsis or Grand Bay will be left holding the bag in Saint John.

Like Fredericton to the north, many city employees have so little interest in supporting their city they will not even live in it. The union leadership in Saint John is blind to reality. The provincial government is not going to bail them out.

Saint John is a city in decline in search of leadership. Ivan Court is not it, and obviously the union leadership thinks there are still 90,000 people living in the city paying property taxes.