FREDERICTON, N.B. – As party leaders and candidates hit the road across New Brunswick campaigning for the upcoming provincial election, Global News will keep track of where they are and what they’re saying in our election notebook.
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Here’s what happened Monday, September 15.
Conservatives: Forestry plan
Progressive Conservative leader David Alward was in front of the Twin Rivers Paper Co. mill in Edmundston, touting his party’s forestry plan.
Alward said the forestry plan will deliver a 50 per cent increase in government investments in private woodlots, which would mean an additional $3-million investment in the industry each year.
He said that would bring annual investment in private woodlots to $9-million.
NDP: Protecting seniors
NDP leader Dominic Cardy was in front of Neville Manor in Fredericton promising to help seniors with the cost of prescription drugs.
Cardy said if elected, he’d reverse the doubling of seniors’ prescription drug co-pay. The government increased the annual amount seniors pay for their medication in 2012.
Cardy said it would cost the province $3-million each year to reverse this decision.
Green Party: Pay equity
Green Party leader David Coon was in Fredericton unveiling his plan to improve pay equity in the province. Coon said he would implement stronger legislation to ensure men and women get paid the same amount for the same job.
He also wants to ensure pay equity extends into both the private and public sectors.
People’s Alliance: Education
People’s Alliance leader Kris Austin promised Monday he would ‘put educators in the driver’s seat’ when it comes to improving New Brunswick’s K-12 education system.
Austin purposed creating a non-partisan Legislative committee that would work with stakeholders like District Education Councils and the New Brunswick Teachers’ Association to review the current system.
He says it will be those people who would make recommendations to the Department of Early Childhood Education and Development as to how the system can improve.
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