Category: Moncton

The Gallant Government is pushing back against municipalities which are angered over the property assessment freeze. Local Government Minister Serge Rousselle says the freeze for next year was the only responsible and fair choice.

The Mayors have complained, however, that the free puts municipalities in a precarious financial position because it’ll cost them revenue they were anticipating and built into budgets for next year.

Rousselle replied the municipalities have been given six months notice and it will only last one year until a new assessment is in place.

A temporary longhouse has been set up near the legislature in Fredericton.

Elder Alma Brooks says it’s a place of teaching, not protest. Brooks with the Wolastoq Grand Council says the longhouse was erected just ahead of Canada Day to educate people that indigenous people were here long before Europeans arrived and confederation. Brooks added she also  understands the position of an indigenous senator, Sandra Lovelace Nicholas, who says she won’t celebrate Canada Day until all treaties are settled, and all First Nations children enjoy equality.