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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
BTW - to my knowledge, this is the first time an NB premier has gone to this meeting. Is there a reason for this other than the fact that Dominic invited him along? What business does the premier of a small province have of being at such a meeting? He would seem to be way out of his league here.
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Courtesy of Laura Brown on Twitter:
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Originally Posted by @LauraBrownCTV
Because he's named a Young Global Leader, his ticket to the World Economic Forum was paid for ... The rest of the trip was paid for by NBers. @DonArsenault said he's [Gallant] meeting with Glencore, IBM, Alibaba and Uber during his time in Davos.
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Uber is a company i'd be interested in seeing expand to NB but that depends more on individual municipalities. Saint John, for example, would be a perfect city for Uber because it's currently controlled by a taxi cartel and it's a large city with a smaller population, meaning that a car is required. Having competition to lower prices would go a long way. Gallant can't say much more in the meeting than "Yeah, we'd like to have you in NB". He has nothing he can offer Uber. At all.
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Originally Posted by Good2Go
Worse than the PCs using this for their own political gain?? They make ambulance chasers look good in comparison.
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They're playing the usual Opposition angle...and they're mostly correct. 400-500 people lose their jobs and the Premier and co. are nowhere to be found. Closest thing to a leader they sent was the MLA from Dalhousie, for all the help he'd be. Not very reassuring. If only this mill closed down a Liberal riding...
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Originally Posted by pierremoncton
Please... as if anything would change were he to lead the pity party.
All governments have things to be validly criticized for. This isn't one of them.
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The optics are brutal and backyard Provincial politics are built on optics. Sussex and the Fundy region don't vote Liberal and thanks to this they won't be any time soon.