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Sunday, April 19, 2009

PISSED OFF FORMER LIBERAL MINISTER VAUGHN IS LOOKING EVERYWHERE FOR SUPPORT TO SAVE THE FERRY AT GAGETOWN!!

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...: A rose between two thorns.; 8:44 PM, April 19, 2009
Anonymous said...: Politics makes strange bedfellows, as they say....; 11:22 AM, April 20, 2009
Anonymous said...: I think you should do a story on the Six Million Dollar Man or Woman, show who voted FOR the Six Million Dollar Pension increase so everyone knows because right now, we don't know. How about that? I think Farrah Fawcett and Lee Majors would make great stand ins for all of them, they were partial robots after all.; 11:24 AM, April 20, 2009
Anonymous said...: Very poor taste of you to slag Roger Duguay. He's been really good to you Charles and he works extremely hard on poverty issues in New Brunswick. He is outraged over the pension primer, I can assure you.; 3:38 PM, April 20, 2009
Dan F said...: I believe this is the only tangible copy of Kleptocrats discussing their pay / pension boost (combined discussion of bills 53 and 54 at around 53 minutes into this recording): http://myginch.com/QSLS/media/qpupload/NB-legislature-300408latenight.mp3More from my liveblog of that day: http://qslspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/04/nb-tenancy-securities-act.html.

Recall, according to the CBC, the video equipment was 'taken out' by floodwaters the day before - what a bunch of hogwash - the cameras were out that day for the same reason Charles is banned from the building: Kleptocrats can't handle scrutiny of their devious actions.
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Bill 53 - An Act to Amend the Legislative Assembly Act
http://www.gnb.ca/legis/bill/pdf/56/2/Bill-53.pdf(a) by repealing subsection (1) and substituting the
following:

25(1) Commencing April 1, 2008, each member of the Legislative Assembly shall be paid an indemnity at the rate of $85,000 per year.

Since they were on camera for this other bill - they barely mentioned what this law was doing, more salary / pension raises apparently:

Bill 54 - An Act to Amend the Executive Council Act
http://www.gnb.ca/legis/bill/pdf/56/2/Bill-54.pdf Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, enacts as follows:

1 Section 5 of the Executive Council Act, chapter E-12 of the Revised Statutes, 1973, is amended

(a) in subsection (1) by striking out “twenty thousand dollars” and substituting “$52,614”;
(b) in subsection (2) by striking out “thirty thousand dollars” and substituting “$79,000".

2 Section 6 of the Act is amended by striking out “fifteen thousand dollars” and substituting “$39,500”.

3 Subsection 6.1(2) of the Act is amended in the portion preceding paragraph (a) by striking out “January 1,
4 This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on
April 1, 2008.; 8:25 PM, April 20, 2009
Anonymous said...: Thanks Dan F for the info.; 12:14 AM, April 21, 2009
Charles LeBlanc said...: thanks Dan....I wasn't paying attention when I posted your comment.

Will blog!!!; 7:24 AM, April 21, 2009

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