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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
If it was to be built in NB at all, it would have gone to Dorchester (or Renous).
Do you have a problem with this being built in southeastern NB?
As I said, this will be a national level inpatient psychiatric facility for violent offenders. It could just as easily have been built in Ontario or Alberta. Would you prefer this????
BTW, politically I am a Conservative, but on the progressive side, and found Higgs and his ilk difficult to take.
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I feel as if you're conflating a few separate critiques here. For example, I agree that this facility makes sense in proximity to existing federal correctional facilities, just as I [as a New Brunswicker] similarly agree that getting a $1.3 billion investment in New Brunswick is a good outcome versus that money being spent in another province. However, it is also very evident that there is a long-standing pattern of government spending inequity in the province, one that started long before Saint John recently lost its centuries-old rank as the largest city in the province.
As I heard it described by a colleague in GNB the other day, "Moncton gets spending because it's labeled as 'good for the province,' Fredericton gets spending because it's labeled as the capital, and Saint John is just labeled as whiners."
Spending does not have to be equal everywhere, that would be silly to assume, but that doesn't pre-invalidate any criticism of political favouritism just as it doesn't justify the pre-supposed dismissal of the concerns of those asking questions.
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