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Premier Higgs: Premier Higgs:
The single biggest challenge we have would be finding skilled There's one government that's very clear, and I guess in the
workers. That's across the network, as I mentioned earlier. That's federal process that has been very clear about where they stand
a very, very big focus for us. The other aspect is bringing in terms of developing and utilizing our resources. The resources
confidence back to New Brunswick for private sector investment. have always provided the work environment and the construction
We've had volatility in government regulations or government opportunities and the follow up investments to grow our economy
positions, which has brought uncertainty in the system and then and maintain our economy. I don't see that happening or changing
as a result people pull back. We've seen investors leave, like in anytime soon unless a government just chooses not to move
our shale gas development, which we want to proceed with that forward, because the opportunity is still there, the resources are
but there are a lot of challenges in that regard, which we want to still there, and we need the tradespeople to once again put our
overcome because we want to proceed with that. country, our provinces, back together.
I think that bringing confidence back in, bringing in a regulatory They've done that famously for years and we've all benefited from
system that's fair and equitable so people will look at New it, so I'm hoping that this election will be a game changer and that
Brunswick as a place to grow and work and live. We started that we will once again get back on track for our construction industry
process early on. We had our dealing with the costs of operating in this country, because we desperately need to do so.
a business here, dealing with the costs and the tax levels. We
want to get the budget balanced and then we want to reduce taxes
so people who live and work here are paying the same tax levels.
Making it an attractive province to work in, finding skilled workers,
is going to be our big thing.
Peter:
Do you have any thoughts and/or messages you would like to
convey to Canada's building trades union's over 500,000
members as we head toward the fall election?

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