Provincial
NDP leader Dominic Cardy sees Premier David Alward's State of the
Province speech as a sign of desperation with so much being pinned on
the future of shale gas.
Cardy
tells CHSJ News you just have to check on what's happened since the
Premier's first State of the Province address back in 2011 with
unemployment levels up and would be a lot higher without all the
migration out west, the provincial debt has risen and the government has
not been able to get a handle on the deficit.
As
for the revitalisation of forestry, Cardy points out the province is
still losing tens of millions of dollars on its crown lands which is a
sign of incompetence so there's still a long way to go before that's
turned around.