Bruce Wark reports:
"Local Green MLA Megan Mitton is calling on Premier Higgs to implement far-reaching electoral reform instead of musing about cutting the number of seats in the New Brunswick legislature.
“Frankly, I’m disappointed to hear that type of discussion happen as if democracy is the problem here,” Mitton said during a year-end interview in Sackville last week.
The member for Memramcook-Tantramar was commenting on a recent report in the Irving-owned Telegraph-Journal in which Higgs is quoted as suggesting that since MLAs can be “barriers” to economic prosperity, it might be a good idea to reduce their numbers in the legislature...." https://warktimes.com/2020/01/09/green-mla-calls-for-proportional-representation-not-a-smaller-legislature/
@ commentary ~ add your's too... share Bruce's website...New Brunswick has 49 elected MLA sitting in parliament.
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
MLA’s are paid $85,000 per year. I would like to see less MLA’s in New Brunswick if it saves money. Conservatives are usually looking for ways to save money and balance budgets. That’s not so surprising to me. I have suggested that they are overpaid; just as the Federal MPs are overpaid at $178,000 per year. No politician would advocate for a pay cut however… shush.. just keep talking about how poor people are becoming but do nothing about it is Megan’s plan. Great. Her party wants us to get off oil and gas; perhaps we need to get off green politicians.. they’ll have us all living in poverty if they have their way.
