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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
The alternative is to have Brian Gallant pander to indigenous people and rural residents of Kent County by applying a province wide ban, when fracking is still taking place in Sussex, providing jobs to a troubled economy, but not allowing any new fracking to occur in Sussex to maintain the industry. Why should activists in Kent County dictate what should or should not occur in Kings County?
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That's why we have elections. If you don't like Brian Gallant you're free to vote against him today. Perhaps vote for someone who views provincial matters more in line with your own? If you really think fracking is important then vote for a party that supports it.
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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
Its similar to my own viewpoint as to how bilingualism should be applied in the province. You've said yourself that Moncton is pretty much the only place where large numbers of both francophones and anglophones coexist, while other parts of the province are either 95% anglophone or francophone. To that end, I would let individual counties or municipalities decide how bilingualism should be applied. I think there would end up being a whole lot less tension over the issue.......
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Again, this defeats the entire purpose of operating under a single provincial entity. Unlike natural resource development, NB's bilingual policies are enshrined in the repatriated Constitution Act of 1982, so it's essentially law for eternity unless you can find some fancy legal workaround (like, say, disbanding New Brunswick and not having the 1982 provisions apply to the new territory), which presumably would still require the 7/50% rule.
We stopped using counties as anything meaningful because the servicing and administrative costs were too high for such a small coverage area.