Mr. Speaker, since the Liberal government took office strange things have been happening in my riding of Saint John.
The new air traffic control tower that was built two years ago by the PC government was closed by this government and by the Department of Transport this year. The new VIA train station was built last year by the PC government. This government has closed the terminal and is terminating full VIA service on Thursday. As well the government has drastically cut back the hours of the Saint John weather office.
I guess I have a question for the Minister of Transport: Could the Minister of Transport please explain why his cuts have been focused on the largest industrial based city in the province of New Brunswick which has a nuclear power plant, the largest privately owned oil refinery there is in Canada, plus the frigate program and so on? Why has the minister not distributed cuts equally to Fredericton and Moncton, and not just Saint John?