22 OCTOBER 2012

As Education Minister Jody Carr hints at reneging on this year's school budgets, Green Party Leader David Coon has learned that New Brunswick earned absolutely nothing from the conventional natural gas Corridor Resources pumped out of New Brunswick in the second quarter of this year. (http://www.corridor.ca/investors/documents/Q22012FinancialReport.pdf).

"We haven't got a spending problem in our schools, we have a revenue problem from our natural resources" said David Coon, Leader of the New Brunswick Green Party. "It is irresponsible to be giving them away. These are non-renewable resources," said Coon.

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17 OCTOBER 2012

The Green Party of New Brunswick is observing the United Nations’ International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17^th. “The theme of the 2012 observance is ‘Ending the Violence of Extreme Poverty’. It serves as a reminder that poverty kills more children and adults that any war. “The New Brunswick Green Party, together with its federal counterpart is the only party advocating making poverty history through a Guaranteed Livable Income,” said New Brunswick Green Leader, David Coon.

October 17^th is an opportunity to focus the attention of all New Brunswickers on poverty in our province. The Green Party congratulates the initiative of the Common Front for Social Justice to hold its 4th Poverty Summit in Bathurst today and in Moncton on Saturday. They are on the frontline of the fight against poverty.

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11 APRIL 2012

At their recent annual meeting, members of the NB Green Party voted to endorse a legal challenge being launched by several anti-fracking community groups. Renewable Energy Advocate Rick Roth says “This is a courageous challenge to the Conservative government’s ill-advised rush to industrialize large areas of New Brunswick in search of shale gas revenues.”

A collection of concerned citizens groups called Know Shale Gas NB has banded together to challenge Government plans to exploit shale gas in New Brunswick. Two representatives of one group, Hampton Water First, brought their proposal forward to the Green Party AGM on March 24th.

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04 MARCH 2011

Green Party Supports Student March on the Legislature 

The New Brunswsick Green Party supports post-secondary students in New Brunswick in their efforts to get the attention of the government on the issue of financing their education.  The Alward government has signalled its intention to cut services in its upcoming budget in an attempt to get the deficit under control.  Students want to make sure that what is already an untenable situation does not get even worse.

Green Party post-secondary education advocate Kathleen MacDougall stated, « Students are already labouring under a huge debt load at the end of their time in college or university.  Many are forced to leave the province after graduation in order to find jobs that pay well enough to support those debts.  This trend has to be reversed if New Brunswick is going to advance.  Any budget cuts that make that problem worse might look good on the provincial balance sheets, but it will undermine the educational and life prospects for our young people, and the long term prospects of our province. »

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24 SEPTEMBER 2010

It’s About the Next Generation

Green Party leader Jack MacDougall says it is inexcusable that none of the other parties have addressed the environment in their platforms.  New Brunswickers deserve to have the right to clean air and clean water, so Green MLA s will work to enact an Environmental Bill of Rights to entrench those rights in law, said the Green Party Leader.

Citizens victimized by pollution or a contaminated environment have often complained that the Department of Environment is unresponsive to their concerns and that the justice system is not an option.

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18 SEPTEMBER 2010

It’s About the Next Generation

Green Party leader Jack MacDougall announced today that the Green Party’s poverty reduction plan begins with putting more money into the hands of those who need it most.  The party would immediately increase income assistance rates to the Newfoundland and Labrador level, the highest in the Atlantic region. Over time the rates would increase until they reach the low income cut-off  level for New Brunswick as set by Statistics Canada.  New Brunswick social assistance levels are among the lowest in Canada.

For a government to commit to reducing poverty and then pay social assistance rates far below the poverty line is hypocritical, MacDougall stated.  That is permanently entrenching people in poverty who are not able to participate in the workforce, and keeping those people who need temporary help from getting themselves out of a rut.

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15 SEPTEMBER 2010

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08 SEPTEMBER 2010

It’s About the Next Generation

Green Party leader Jack MacDougall presented his slate of candidates and released his Party’s election platform at a news conference in Fredericton today.

“In our very first campaign we have exceeded all expectations with our slate of 51 candidates, of which 24 are women,” said MacDougall.  “Our candidates are Francophone, Anglophone and First Nation – we have students and seniors, policy experts and farmers, small business owners and municipal councilors, educators and public servants – united by a common commitment to help transform New Brunswick into a truly just and sustainable society

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