NDP Leader Wants To End M-L-A's Influence Over Hiring

Provincial NDP leader Dominic Cardy says people are still fearful of voting for the wrong party at election time because the M-L-A's have too much of a say in who the provincial government hires.

Cardy would like M-L-A's to have their influence limited to just the people who staff their offices.

Cardy created quite a stir recently when he equated the reluctance of the school system to fail students to the province's high rate of illiteracy but he tells Tide News we have a crisis on our hands with 56 per cent of people in New Brunswick considered functionally illiterate.

Cardy argues having a highly trained workforce is the best way to attract business investment to the province rather than handing out grants.