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September 13, 2010

PC Platform highlights ways to Put New Brunswick First … For a Change

RIVERVIEW - At the PC’s campaign launch today, the Leader, David Alward, said he commits to delivering on ten concrete plans between election day and the end of the 2010 calendar year.

Alward says he and the PC team are ready to govern the province, starting on day one of a PC mandate and highlighted some of the challenges the new government will need to address, head-on.

“Change takes commitment, change takes a plan, and the Progressive Conservative Party is ready to govern on Day 1,” began Alward.

He highlighted a number of plans his team would immediately begin to take action on. These include:

• providing power rate stability for all residents and businesses for a three-year period by freezing power rates,
• reducing the small business tax rate by 50 per cent, therefore making business success and growth easier,
• working toward ensuring that every New Brunswicker has a family doctor, thereby ensuring quality primary care for all New Brunswickers,
• making strategic investments that will strengthen the capacity of our school system, thereby providing a means to meet the challenge of providing a quality education for every student,
• putting in place a debt reduction plan and taking initial actions, like reducing government waste and the size of the provincial cabinet, and managing responsibly, so that we do not put an unfair burden on future generations.

Alward said the question New Brunswickers need to ask themselves as they cast their ballot is this: given the long list of poor fiscal decisions, reckless spending, and repeatedly making decisions that have left New Brunswickers out of the picture, does Shawn Graham deserve another four years in office?

He firmly believes New Brunswickers will answer that question with a resounding “no” and vote for the kind of government that will put New Brunswick first, for a change – a Progressive Conservative government.

“The Progressive Conservative plan is sound; the Progressive Conservative plan is comprehensive; but, best of all, the Progressive Conservative plan is achievable,” he concluded.

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