There's no attraction to the Tories, it was a horrified reaction to the Liberals.
Before the last election, Shawn Graham, leader of the Liberals, stood up in the Legislature and said, 'Under a Shawn Graham government, NBPower will NOT BE SOLD!'. A year later, turns out he negotiated a deal to sell NBPower to Hydro Quebec, and then tried to flim flam everyone by claiming nobody had time to read the whole agreement, and it was quite complicated, and the voters would have to trust him...
Then they gave a $50million loan guarantee to a company owned by family/friends of the Liberal Party, which company went bankrupt a scant few months later, the auditors noted that it was pretty much bankrupt before getting $50 million of the taxpayers money.
They negotiated a pay contract with the doctors, but then claimed they didn't have to live up to it, because they hadn't actually signed it yet.
There's a few others, but these are the highlights.
Here's something I was reading today.
At this point I have no idea as to what led me to this article.......
The Graham Connection
Gas Licence-issuing premier's dad's land is now directly in the path of SWN's seismic testing.
The Grahams are a dynastic land-holding and political family from Kent County, New Brunswick. Originally an Irish family, the first Grahams in New Brunswick
settled in Main River, in the parish of Richibucto, in 1817, and never left.
In more recent times, Alan Robert Graham became the elected representative in Kent County when the district first received an electoral seat, in 1967. From there he became the longest running member of the legislative assembly in New Brunswick history, winning his seat until 1998.
Of note, Alan was the Minister of Natural Resources from 1991-1998.
His son Shawn Graham won the Kent county seat in 1998. Shawn became premier of New Brunswick between 2006 and 2010, and retired from politics in 2013.
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The date upon which SWN determined where their seismic testing lines would pass through Kent County, and whether this date happened to overlap with Shawn Graham's premiership, is also of real importance – and is potentially grounds for a conflict of interest.
If the younger Graham was in political office when his father was earmarked as a landowner who would welcome seismic testing upon his land, and then would subsequently welcome the potential of gas royalties, is key.
All are currently unknown, but Shawn Graham's track record in feeding his father plum contracts while in office is not good.
In 2009, as premier of New Brunswick, Shawn Graham's government issued $50 million in loans to New Brunswick construction firm Atcon Holdings Ltd.
The company was subsequently caught inflating it's accounts – a seriously damaging scandal to the New Brunswick Liberals - but it was the revelation that Alan Graham sat upon the board of directors of an Atcon subsidiary that caught Shawn in a conflict of interest.
Shawn fessed up, was subsequently fined the sum of $3500, and retired from public office.
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The Graham Connection | Halifax Media Co-op
