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Green MLA questions use of lobbyists, insiders to guide municipal reform

by Bruce Wark
April 4, 2022
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Green MLA questions use of lobbyists, insiders to guide municipal reform

Green MLA Megan Mitton is pictured speaking in the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly. Photo: Screenshot

The MLA for Memramcook-Tantramar is questioning why the province is using registered lobbyists who are also political insiders to call the shots on municipal reform.

During the legislature’s Question Period on Thursday, Megan Mitton named several provincially appointed transition co-ordinators listed on New Brunswick’s registry of lobbyists.

They include Moncton communications consultant Chad Peters who is being paid $1,200 a day to guide the forced amalgamation of Sackville with Dorchester and three local service districts.

Mitton also mentioned registered lobbyists and political insiders William Thompson and Maurice Robichaud.

“What topics are these individuals lobbying his government on,” Mitton asked the minister of local government reform, “and does he see it as a conflict of interest that someone registered to lobby his department is working as a transition facilitator for the province?”

Daniel Allain, minister of local government reform.

Minister Daniel Allain replied that there’s no conflict of interest because the list of lobbyists is public and besides, he said, the province needed knowledgeable transition facilitators.

“These are people who know how the system works… They’re great people who have extensive knowledge of the way government works,” he said.

New Brunswick’s registry of lobbyists shows that Peters’s current activity involves lobbying on behalf of Rayan Investments, a Moncton-based company that is Atlantic Canada’s only glass recycler.

His list of lobbying targets include Premier Blaine Higgs, Daniel Allain as well as Finance Minister Ernie Steeves and Environment Minister Gary Crossman.

His lobbying focus is given as: “Reducing the amount of waste going to landfills by improving recycling opportunities throughout New Brunswick.”

The registry also lists Peters’s past lobbying efforts. For more details on each one, click here:

As reported previously, Peters is president and CEO of Lynwood Strategies, a Moncton-based communications agency that helps its corporate clients protect and enhance their reputations partly by using social and traditional media and partly by aligning their “goals with those of government.”

In 2007, Peters ran unsuccessfully in a provincial by-election as the Conservative candidate in Moncton East. At the time, he worked for the Tories in Fredericton as manager of policy and research.

Bruce Wark worked in broadcasting and journalism education for more than 35 years. He was at CBC Radio for nearly 20 years as senior editor of network programs such as The World at Six and World Report. He currently writes for The New Wark Times where this story first appeared on April 3, 2022.

Tags: AmalgamationBruce WarkDaniel AllainMegan MittonMunicipal reformNew Brunswickpolitics
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