Opposition says New Brunswick government not serious about tentative agreements
Published Thursday June 18th, 2009
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Opposition health critic says the Liberal government doesn't take the negotiation of tentative agreements seriously.
Conservative Margaret-Ann Blaney took the government to task today during debate on a bill that would legislate a two-year wage freeze for the province's doctors.
Fee-for-service doctors reached a tentative agreement with the province in December, but the government now says it can't afford the deal because of the economic crisis.
The New Brunswick Medical Society has threatened to go to court if the province imposes the freeze.
Health Minister Mike Murphy says the legislation doesn't have a proclamation date, and he's willing to meet with the doctors to find a solution.
But Tory Leader David Alward says the government isn't serious if it's holding a club in one hand and an olive branch in the other.
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Mr. Premier this will not work. Where were you when your Ministers where creating all these problems? Oh that's right, you are the one who approved this and the education cuts in the first place.
At the same time STU faculty were picketing and seeking to get back to negotiations (negotiations that sought no more than fairness and equity with faculty colleagues elsewhere, and to preserve academic standards from the “dumbing down” and anti-intellectual measures sought by the administration), sycophantic, anti-faculty student “leaders” were courted by the administration and by members of the Shawnoccio circus and encouraged to make widely known their opposition to the faculty -- all to make it appear that faculty were unreasonable, callous and uncaring of the students' education—that not even the students supported the faculty. SPIN, SPIN, SPIN …. But nothing could have been further from the truth!
Unlike university faculty, MDs are a pretty autonomous bunch. Although I see it happening right in front of me (again and again), it is still hard to fathom the depth of stupidity of this government. Maybe there is no bottom.
I hope everyone realizes that the Premier is not "reacting" to recent events. This is playing out according to his plan.