The tax deals let First Nations keep 95 per cent of the provincial tax they collect at on-reserve retail outlets, including gas stations and convenience stores. Some will expire in 90 days and others will end next year.
Last year bands brought in tax amounts ranging from $17.6 million at Madawaska Maliseet First Nation to $230,000 at Tobique.
Premier Blaine Higgs calls the system unfair to non-Indigenous businesses and even unjust between First Nations that make a lot of money and those that make less.
Dunn suggested Tuesday that resource revenue-sharing agreements for forestry and mining signed in Ontario in 2018 were one example of a better way to go.
FREDERICTON Parks Canada is offering to move the belongings of the late Jackie Vautour out of New Brunswick s Kouchibouguac National Park. But Vautour s son calls the offer shameful and says he ll continue his father s 50-year battle against expropriation of their land. It s so shameful, Edmond Vautour said in an interview Thursday. A letter like that just two months after my father passed away. Imagine how my mother felt to hear that. The elder Vautour remained on his property, on the east coast of the province, after the park was created in 1969, living in a cabin without electricity until his death in February of this year.
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Steve Salterio says Mount Allison University misrepresented itself when it laid out certain details in an offer that convinced him to leave his job at Queen s University to take one with the Sackville, N.B., school.(Queen s University)
A high-profile business professor is accusing Mount Allison University of reneging on a promise to give him a special deal to reduce his teaching load if he brought his academic star power to the idyllic New Brunswick school.
Steve Salterio is arguing in a lawsuit that Mount Allison president Jean-Paul Boudreau told him the dean of commerce could make it happen if Salterio abandoned his lucrative position at Queen s University in Kingston, Ont.
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FREDERICTON New Brunswick s Court of Appeal has rejected Mount Allison University s effort to block a lawsuit by a prominent professor who says the school failed to abide by promises made to recruit him. The March 23 court decision upholds a ruling last October by Court of Queen s Bench Justice Fred Ferguson that the case should proceed. Business Prof. Steve Salterio claims he and his wife gave up lucrative jobs in Kingston, Ont., after Mount Allison University president Jean-Paul Boudreau allegedly promised to reduce his teaching load and allow him to teach specific classes. The university and Salterio began negotiations in 2017 when Salterio was a professor at Queen s University, Ferguson s decision said. At the time, the professor was highly paid with an annual income of $375,000 per year, which came from various sources.