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    NS MLA fordert NB-Premier dringend auf, die Autobahnmaut in der Nähe der Provinzgrenze zu überdenken

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    1. Argented on

      well NS MLA, maybe remove the toll people have to pay travel to Halifax. I don’t necessarily support the idea of added tolls in the first place but people in glass houses and all that.

    2. No_Magazine9625 on

      >New Brunswick government officials said on Tuesday that the Aulac region was chosen because it’s the best catchment area for non-residential traffic. They said they are unable to introduce a toll close to a provincial boundary with Quebec, near Edmundston, N.B., due to an existing agreement with the federal government that does not allow tolls there.

      This is particularly outrageous. It’s undue favoritism to one province over another. The NS government should put tariffs/trade barriers on NB products until they reverse course on this, and should take NB to the Supreme Court over it.

    3. L8n8r6900 on

      Personally I wish they would just allow civilians free use on both sides of the border and charge heavy vehicles, commercial shipping trucks, buses, etc… an amount that would offset the revenue lost from tolling civilians, as large vehicles do the brunt of the damage to roads.

      The companies using these roads to lug cargo already get money in the form of credits and grants in many different industries, so since our taxes are used to offset their liability and loss already, it is only fair that they offset our need for a toll.

      I’m sure they would try to make the consumer eat the cost, but our politicians could just as easily write legislation to prevent that from happening.

    4. Temaharay on

      It feels wildly predatory for New Brunswick to set up tolls on Nova Scotia’s only highway out of the province for the express purpose to collect out of province revenue.

      It’s like a reverse PEI, where the toll pays for the Confederation bridge to connect the province island, this toll’s sole purpose is a barrier to extort NS money. „Want to drive off your peninsula? Pay us“. There should be a law against this.

    5. FronoElectronics on

      If you were able to properly tax the Irvings the deficit would be solved. Yet they hide their profits offshore and are tightly wound into the government there and have been for decades. They have $10+ billion in assets across ~250 companies and the family is worth over $15+ billion. They basically own all of NB and Maine so maybe start there.

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