A press release from St. Barb MHA, Liberal Jim Bennett caught my attention tonight.
For the record, the biggest single benefactor from the JCP grants was Burgeo - La Poile, which is represented by Liberal Andrew Parsons.
Since assuming responsibility for Labour Market Development Agreement
programs and services in 2009 the Provincial Government
has delivered approximately 710 projects with a total value of nearly
$34 million, providing employment for over 3,571 individuals.
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HOUSE OF
ASSEMBLY
Newfoundland and Labrador
JIM BENNETT,
M.H.A.
District of St. Barbe
Office: (709) 458-3257Fax: (709) 458-3259 Email: JimBennett@gov.nl.ca
June 6, 2012
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BURKE BRINGS
BACK TORY PORK BARREL
SEVEN MINISTERS
GET 49% of JCP GRANTS
St. Barbe MHA Jim Bennett is astounded
that Minister Joan Burke has brought back the Tory Pork Barrel, rewarding 7 of
her cabinet colleagues with 56 of 114 JCP grants. This works out to 49% of all
first round Job Creation grants, leaving 41 other districts to make do with the
remaining half.
On average lucky winners got $388,000
for their districts while the others averaged $87,000, with some receiving no
money whatsoever.
The big winners were:
Charlene Johnson ---------- 13 grants ------- $677,292
Clyde Jackman
------------- 10 grants ------- 540,813
Darin King ------------------ 8 grants ------- 312,174
Derrick Dalley -------------- 7 grants ------- 311,250
Jerome Kennedy ----------- 6 grants ------ 218,935
Keith Hutchings ------------ 6 grants ------ 287,846
Felix Collins --------------------6
grants ------ 369,598
Bennett says that permitting stronger
ministers to loot the public treasury at the expense of weaker colleagues shows
a complete lack of leadership from the top. This has clearly become a winner
take all, survival of the strong at the expense of the weak government,
completely opposite to the position of the Former Premier who went so far as to
dismiss a minister for taking extra money for his district.
It seems that either this is an
unfortunate policy change for this government or this Premier is too weak to
enforce any discipline over strong ministers.
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For more info contact Bertha Brophy 458-3257
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1 comment:
It is so obvious that Danny Millions appointed Dunderdale as interim leader because he knew she would not make a strong leader. He figured it would leave the leader's post open for other, stronger P.C. MHA's. Unfortunately there wasn't any other. MHA up to the task; they had all become Danny's "yes" men. Now, the stronger ministers are doing as they please while the weak leader Dunderdale sits idly by.
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