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.
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Saturday, September 3, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
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?
Check out the CBC Story
This vote-buying vignette has been made possible by the taxpayers of New Brunswick and Canada.
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?
Check out the CBC Story
This vote-buying vignette has been made possible by the taxpayers of New Brunswick and Canada.
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