Public education not a priority for Dexter government, says Liberal leader

Weldon Long

- April 28, 2012 at 11:04:44

Lenore Zann is a great representative and a hard working MLA. The problem in NS is that previous governments (and yes they are at fault) have been spending on our credit to the tune of 13 BILLION dollars! People are fed up with partisan politics and personal attacks that our federal government has made the norm in this once proud country. Rodney MacDonald and his gang were a complete disaster, and Nova Scotia kicked them to the curb. The liberals proved to be no better. After 250 years of rule by those two party's I think a the NDP deserve at least a couple of years to try and get our province on track. The alternative is for every one of us to go work in Harper's Alberta! He's trying hard to make that happen!

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The Shadow

- April 24, 2012 at 11:59:49

@Sad but true . The problem here is not the NDP , not the conservatives and not the liberals. The problem is for far too long we have been living champagne lifestyles on Beer Budget Revenues and playing that on a 13 billion dollar credit card. A typical teacher starting with a permanent position makes twice the per capita GDP. Notice that we have fewer gas stations, fewer corner stores , fewer persons taking a risk on Nova Scotia . The reason is simple we are the most in debt per capita territory in all of the America's. No future Nova Scotia government is going to escape the spiral of financial doom unless we cut spending much more then we are witnessing today. The blood shed now is minor compared to blood being shed in Europe in Basketcase economies.

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you have no idea

- April 13, 2012 at 10:24:47

to the person commenting in "no surprise" You dont have a clue what your talking about! Many of us met personally with Lenore Zann at her office and gave her copies of petitions and personal letters which she DID use to get the attention of the minister of education and the premier and she has been in constant communication with various groups through social media channels. If it were not for Lenore Zann and her direct contact and communication for us to the minister of education, the CCRSB would have passed the motion this pat Wednesday to let go all of the librarians and the 4 adult high schools as a start, who knows what else the CCRSB had planned for that night. Everyone in Truro/Bible Hill and counties that the CCRSB work in should be thanking Lenore for the work she has done already for these groups and she probably saved some jobs. Unless of course your one of those greedy bureucrats that would rather see students suffer than go get a job where your needed. I suppose then I could see you being upset with the Truro MLA! oh, and this ad was another rediculous waste of our taxpayer monies.

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no surprise

- April 12, 2012 at 18:41:08

This is a mess. People's lives and their families should not be manipulated for anyone's personal agenda. It is not clear who is absolutely wrong: a heavy-handed, paranoid provincial government or a school board that looks like the Three Stooges trying to get through a door at the same time. But one thing should come as no surprise. Our MLA is regrettably, but totally, the wrong person to offer any assistance to her constituents. She was unqualified, untested, and unworthy to sit in the Provincial Assembly. She is a backbencher for a government that seems afraid to let her either speak, or even meet, with individuals or concerned groups. At a time when our voice in the Legislative Assembly should be heard loud and often, the silence is deafening. No surprise.

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Colleen

- April 11, 2012 at 15:28:31

As I have been saying all along THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT CARE as long as they get their money in their pockets that is all they consider priority, it is sickning that students of all ages have to suffer on the short sighted decision of a government that is supposed to work for US, I think it is time to take back what is ours, NOT theirs.

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Sad but true

- April 11, 2012 at 12:41:45

Well I' am glad I didn't vote NDP because of what they did in past years to other provinces so little N.S could never handle the way they run a province into the ground...... Good news is the road is already paved for their departure next election then we have years of trying to get back on our feet & dealing with the next power monster. Sad part is it which party do you vote for because they have all been in power and always same thing. Look after themselves & let tax paying Canadians pay all the bills. Yet they wonder why voter turn out is so low. mmmhh!! If a good idea comes up for Canadian citizens then move forward regardless whose idea it is. None stop fighting over what the other party did "yesterday" is nonproductive & cost tax payers thousands by the hour plus all their benefits. Could everyday Canadians live so good? Not a chance! Our local MLA's spend $5000-8000 per month on expenses alone, plus, plus, plus. We have a wonderful country which is full of natural resources which could benefit all Canadians but it is all sold to other countries so when we buy back we pay top dollar plus more taxes... We best stand up to this corruption folks before Canada becomes a 3rd world country in need of hand outs. They can raise min wage every month but if you can't keep up with taxes, food, gas prices & what we pay our dear political parties. Now we get to plan on retiring at 67 if we don't work ourselves to death before hand trying to eat & keep the heat/lights on! Sad, Sad, Sad what these parties are doing to Proud Canadian citizens who fought so hard so we could end up living this way.

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Fred Penner

- April 11, 2012 at 10:56:30

As Lenin once said "give me your child...." This is, and has been the very real realities throughout Western Academia. No matter the ever increasing amount of public dollars that gets poured into this leaky sieve called "public" or "progressive" "education" the result is the same; dumbing down to the point of what B.F. Skinner referred to as psychological conditioning. It is no wonder that near all of those that run the show have attended or have their children attend private schooling and the blistering growth of home schooling. Today with the onslaught of Stalin's "Political Correctness", sociopolitical theory and pseudo-science has replaced true thought, knowledge, fact and reason where the result is amoral censorship and extremely limited discourse toward the factually correct, morally guided integrity and intellectual honesty especially freedom of speech/thought/intellect no matter how much money is dumped into the system. Right from the mouths of numerous retired educators, from all levels, that thank God each day for their being retired and out of this publicly financed collapsing edifice.

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jds

- April 11, 2012 at 10:15:46

The sad truth is, I am one of many people who voted NDP last election. I voted NDP thinking they would protect seniors, education and be socially responsible. Regrettably these very significant areas have been hurt the most by our government. As far as our local MLA she fights for no one but herself! Try speaking with her - better yet - try getting a meeting with her! Good Luck! She is too Self Absorbed! Thank you Mr. McNeil for the wonderful article - may you finally get a chance to improve what the PC and NDP governments have destroyed!

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