Then they closed a Canada Post call centre in Fredericton. Those jobs paid $20 an hour. They wanted to get rid of that, so they opened a call centre in Bathurst, where people were paid $12 an hour. Is that really what northern New Brunswick deserves?
We have to tell it like it is. Most francophones live in northern New Brunswick. This minority has been beaten down and trodden on by all New Brunswick and federal governments. With respect, the south of the province got everything and we got welfare.
The golden triangle is Fredericton, Saint John and Moncton. Irving, a major corporation, has never invested in the north. If MAJESTA had set up shop in northern New Brunswick, people could have worked there. If they had been able to transfer the Brunswick mine to the south, they would have done it. If they could have put our fish into the Petitcodiac, which everyone calls the chocolate river, they would have. That is the only thing we have.
Since we lost that, no level of government has ever been there for us. North-eastern New Brunswick has lost people, including you, Mr. Dubé.