ONE LINER COMMENTS

Note: Irving could be dropped and changed to Large Industry 

• 26,000 Small Businesses In New Brunswick Won’t Receive Any Benefit From Power Savings So Irving Can Receive Maximum Benefit!

• Irving Will Receive The Majority Of All Benefits From The Sale Of NB Power! But Let’s Be Fair … Is That Really Enough?

• New Brunswick Rate Payers Are Willing To Pay Over 70% More For Electrical Energy So Irving Companies Can Maximize Profit!

• Reports In All Irving Owned Provincial And Local Papers Are For The Sale Of NB Power! So, It Must Be A Good Deal!

• New Brunswick People will Help Quebec Hydro Purchase of NB Power by Paying an Extra 2.4 Billion During the Five Year Rate Freeze!

• New Brunswick Debt To Increase Sharply After NB Power Debt Paid Off!

• NB Auditor General, Mike Ferguson Says That NB Power Debt “Is Not” Part Of NB Debt!

• NB Ratepayers Are Paying NB Power’s 4.75 Billion Debt! NB Ratepayers Will Pay Hydro Quebec’s 4.75 Billion Loan To Purchase Our Assets!

• Greg Bryne, NB Liberal Finance Minister, Says: Sale Of NB Power “Won’t Reduce Interest On The Provincial Debt!”

• Higher Power Rates Expected To Reduce Competition For Existing Businesses Through Fewer New Business Start-Ups In Province!

• Heritage Pool Ensures New Companies Wanting To Set Up And Do Business In NB Will Have To Pay Higher Rates!

• New Brunswick Residents Are Asked To Give UP Future Energy Independence For As Little As 15 Cents A Day.

• NB Power Sale Makes The $24 Manhattan Island Purchase Look Like An Even Better Deal!

• New Brunswick Ratepayers Will No Longer Contribute To NB Debt As They Will Be Helping Hydro Quebec Pay Off NB Power Purchase Price!

• Elizabeth Beale, President and CEO of Atlantic Provinces’ Economic Council asks,” Should the province be steering the benefits …to a small group of firms with limited growth potential?”
   

• Rod Gillis. NB Lawyer and NB Power Critic Says, “It Is Not In The Public Interest To Trust Those That Have Negotiated This Agreement, As They Do Not Know What They Are Doing!”

• With This Despicable Deal We Are Tied To The Rate Of Inflation Forever! In the Past 10 Years Quebec Power Rates Have Risen Less Than Inflation!

• New Brunswick Residents Promise to Pay For All The Dirty Work With Colson Cove, Belldune and Friends To  Ensure Quebec PROFITS Are Secure!

• NB Power Had Projected a 10% increase In Power Demand In Their Budget Between 2010 and 2015. Do You Think This New Business Will Happen Now?

• NB Debt Grows To 7.4 Billion! Irving’s Net Worth Grows To 7.28 Billion! Does Anyone See A Connection Here?

• Please Help Stop New Business And Job Creation In New Brunswick! Vote for Shawn Graham Now!

• We The People Of New Brunswick Want A Vote!

      DEMOCRACY – Government of the people, by the people, for the people. 

OLIGARCHY - Government by the few

PLUTOCRACY – Government by the wealthy

Which System Do You Want To Live Under?

·      "NB Power … is an asset of the province and we want to keep it …” Shawn Graham 2006!

“I’ve Changed my Mind.” Shawn Graham 2009!

·      Irving’s Place A Shameful 2^nd On Canada’s Richest List! Would Everyone Please Bend Over A Little More And Help This Family Out?