A Law For Thee, But Not For Me

The Energy Minister is evidently going to void a legally binding contract with Enbridge Gas NB. While he is doing that, could he also write legislation cutting everybody's mortgages by 15%?

Read CBC story here.

So the government makes a terrible deal years ago with a company acting in good faith. The company would assume the government would act in good faith. Now we are going to use force to accomplish what we could not accomplish at the bargaining table.

This does give us hope that when we fuck up the deal to extract natural gas from our land we will at least act like a third world dictatorship and just void the contract.

Just because Enbridge Gas NB is part of an evil energy company should not make them crime victims at the hands of our provincial government. But to be fair, we are going in by the front door, not smashing a window and crawling through to pillage their assets.

Dog Bites Man

So, lets get this straight:

Rural MLA in New Brunswick lobbies Minster responsible for DOT to get a local guy a job and a local guy with a truck a gravel contract.

And this is news? This is exactly what New Brunswick politics is!

As long as government uses employment as a way to collect votes, offers of employment will be used to collect votes.