The
contents of the provincial budget is making many of the people who work
in the healthcare system nervous about their futures.
Gordon
Black is Regional Director of the Canadian Union of Public Employees and
he tells Tide News several hundred people could be getting their layoff
notices because something has to give when healthcare costs are rising
at 6 per cent a year but spending is frozen.
Black
believes any cutbacks in health will take place at the smaller hospitals
around the province. He claims rural New Brunswick is under attack.
Black is not surprised at being one of the few voices in favour of the tax cuts of 2008 being rolled back to the 2006 levels.