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N.B. private sector needs pay equity law: NDP

Roger Duguay attacks Liberals, PCs for stalling pay equity progress for five years.

New Brunswick's New Democratic Party is demanding pay equity legislation covering the private sector, Leader Roger Duguay announced on Monday.

Duguay used a campaign stop in Bathurst on Labour Day to criticize the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives for stalling progress on private sector pay equity in the last five years.

Duguay said his party supports a pay equity act that would require businesses with more than 10 employees to put in place a pay equity plan within four years.

Putting an end to March Madness

Telegraph Journal Editorial, Published Saturday September 4th, 2010 A1

The NDP has raised an alarming issue during this election campaign, one that it claims is costing taxpayers an extra $210 million a year.

Every March, government departments and agencies across New Brunswick participate in a spending orgy that would turn taxpayers' stomachs if they ever got a good glimpse.

Much of the spending is hard to account for because it occurs within the normal budget envelope of the respective department or agencies.

New officer could cut $75M in spending: NDP

CBC.CA News - Last Updated: Thursday, September 2, 2010 | 2:39 PM

New Brunswick needs a government efficiency officer to eliminate duplication and waste inside the provincial government, according to NDP Leader Roger Duguay.

Duguay made the announcement on Thursday after a week of blasting the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives for reckless spending promises during the election campaign.

NDP will cut 'March madness' spending

Party says $210M can be saved by stopping last-minute spending each fiscal year

CBC.CA News - Last Updated: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 | 10:49 AM ET

New Brunswick's NDP is vowing to save $210 million by curtailing the so-called annual "March madness" when departments burn through any money left in their budgets.

Grits, Tories not going to get away with it

Launch | Roger Duguay says his political rivals haven't been honest

Daily Gleaner, August 28, 2010, A1, Front Page Headline, by Adam Bowie

The provincial New Democratic Party set off on the campaign trail in earnest Friday as leader Roger Duguay greeted party candidates from across New Brunswick at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

NDP candidate pledges to close Business New Brunswick

Published Wednesday August 25th, 2010, by Shawn Berry, The Daily Gleaner, Page A5

Campaign | NDP says it would stop transferring money to private firms

A University of New Brunswick economist touted as a star candidate for the NDP is vowing to close Business New Brunswick and cut off the $200 million a year the department provides in incentives.

NDP ready for provincial vote; will reveal platform once writ is dropped

Nelson Hum - News 88.9 Staff Aug 24, 2010 05:53:55 AM

SAINT JOHN, NB - New Brunswick NDP leader Roger Duguay says his party will be ready for the September 27th vote.

He says almost 20 NDP candidates have been nominated and the party will have a candidate in every riding.

Things will be full steam ahead once the writ is dropped.

"Each week of the campaign we will release a part of our platform," he says.

He says the most important election issue is the economy and controlling the province's debt.

We must live within our means

Published Tuesday, August 24, 2010, Dominic Cardy, Telegraph Journal, Page A7

The NDP is campaigning on the economy for one reason: without a strong economy nothing else matters. Unless a party has a sensible economic vision, nothing else they say can be taken seriously.

NDP offers N.B. real leadership

Published Tuesday August 17th, 2010, Dominic Cardy, Telegraph Journal, Page A9

Shawn Graham received a lot of attention for a recent promise to create 20,000 jobs through tax cuts and unspecified spending. David Alward is campaigning on a promise to "end Shawn Graham's risky schemes." Neither offers specifics.

NDP vows to cut MLA pensions, salaries

Published Thursday August 5th, 2010  By Shawn Berry, Daily Gleaner
 
New Brunswick's NDP is vowing to slash the salaries of MLAs and chop their "super-sized" pensions in half if it gets any power in the upcoming provincial election.

NDP Leader Roger Duguay said Liberal and Progressive Conservative legislature members voted unanimously to increase their pensions while the public's attention was diverted in 2008 by flooding along the St. John River.

Duguay said his party wants to cut MLA salaries 20 per cent and slash pensions by 50 per cent.

Why not treat voters as adults?

Published Friday July 30th, 2010, By Dominic Cardy, Fredericton Daily Gleaner, Page A11

Progressive Conservative finance critic Bruce Fitch says David Alward will be a good fiscal manager, based on the Bernard Lord government's record. And yes, despite money-wasting disasters such as Orimulsion, Mr. Lord balanced the books and reduced the debt. The NDP will give credit where it's due.

But Mr. Alward's Conservatives are nothing like the Lord government.

NDP say Grits forgot key EUB reform

Published Thursday July 29th, 2010, Times & Transcript Staff, Page A8

Party says efficiency officer should oversee all aspects of NB Power's operations

FREDERICTON - The provincial New Democrats say the Liberals have tried to trump their ideas on reforming the Energy and Utilities Board (EUB), but left out what the NDP are calling a key point.

Roger Duguay says the NDP announced five EUB reforms hours before the Liberals announced their own reforms on Tuesday.

NDP Leader confident party will post significant gains

Published Thursday July 29th, 2010 - Chris Morris, Telegraph Journal, Page A1

SAINT JOHN - Roger Duguay says he's confident the NDP in New Brunswick is on the verge of an historic electoral breakthrough.

NDP Leader Roger Duguay told the Telegraph-Journal's editorial board on Wednesday that he expects to win his seat in the Sept. 27 election.

Duguay, leader of the provincial New Democrats for the past three years, told the editorial board of the Telegraph-Journal on Wednesday he believes he will be elected to the legislature in the September election.

NDP boss focusing on fiscal restraint

Published July 19, 2010, Brett Bundale, Telegraph-Journal, Page A1

Roger Duguay is knocking on doors in his hometown of Tracadie-Sheila with a message: The New Democratic Party of New Brunswick will rein in the runaway spending of successive Liberal and Progressive Conservative governments.

It's an attempt to shake off the NDP's long-held reputation as a party bent on big spending and big government.

While the provincial NDP has never been able to earn or dispel that reputation, the NDP leader is working to convince voters his party is a fiscally responsible alternative

Voters, take note: I'm a strong woman

Election: Provincial labour leader wants to represent the riding of Saint John East for the NDP