Bruce-ian logic prevails
Thanks to a tipster for reminding me to read the TJ editorials today.
It would seem that Alec Bruce has evolved from the tabloid to the TJ but don't expect him to kiss anyone's rump.
No, in fact, his editorial today spanks all three of NB's southern cities and their Irving pubs.
Thanks to the miracle of blogs, you can read Bruce's foaming at the mouth here.
After another round of urban-rural, urban-urban, inter-urban, intra-urban para-urban, supra-urban bickering, it's nice to see someone cut through with a little clarity.
Here's my addition to clarity. We will need Ireland levels of investment and economic growth over the next 20 years if we are to even come close to Premier Graham's goal of self sufficiency. So, there is little time for bickering.
And, on a similar note, to the story about the 'cities going it alone' and finding private sector partners for their convention centres, I say giddy up. There is a culture in New Brunswick that everything must wait for government funding. I am not trying to be cavalier here but at some point, I would like to see a municipality stand up and say "this is part of our growth strategy and we are going ahead with our without you."
This, of course, is easy to say from the confines of a small office and out of touch with reality, but I still think there is some merit in saying it.
posted by David Campbell @ 10:16 AM
2 Comments:
Good post. I think a trade mission to Ireland should definitely be on their radar screen. But more importantly, they need to approach and extend their hand to global markets in India, China amd Pakistan. IM, that is a must mission for the Prwemier and his chosen delegation. The reason i say this is because we need to form some sort of global cooperation with these markets, even if it has no no practical implications --- like the recent twinning of Ontario with Punjab in Pakistan.
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Geez guys, all that's needed is federal investment, all you have to do is look at Maine! Ireland is a COUNTRY, with a population of millions. New Brunswick is a small province with less than one million.
As for convention centres, it's ironic that right now in Waterloo the President of the University has a program going courtesy of the local papers to 'make Waterloo number one', one of the recommendations is, you guessed it, a convention centre! Yet he's saying they need GOVERNMENT to step up and do it. Things sounding a little backwards?
To make a suggestion once again from Waterloo, the Crystal palace enterprise is the 'private investment' you should look at, anybody contact them? Bingemans in Kitchener rakes in money from tourism AND trade shows, and one business feeds into the other. Anybody know the owners?
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