David Raymond Amos@DavidRayAmos Replying to @DavidRayAmos@alllibertynews and 49 others Methinks Mr Higgs and the CBC know that I published many emails about many issues that should have concerned he and his very corrupt cohorts immensely N'esy Pas?
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Emails urged Higgs to cancel plans to host Francophonie Games
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David Amos Methinks Mr Higgs and the CBC know that I published the emails I sent on this topic N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell
Reply to @David Amos: Doubt it ! Other than for a good laugh , I doubt they remember much else about you .
Greg Miller Yes, and I was one of the respondents. Thanks again Premier Higgs, truly.
David Amos
Reply to @Greg Miller: Methinks everybody knows why Mr Higgs and his cohorts never answered my emails on this topic N'esy Pas?
Josef Blow
Reply to @David Amos: Yes, everyone is glued to his and her devices wondering what havoc hath wrought big Dave.
Greg Smith Any guess as to what Higgs' response will be if we email him directly to address the millions it's costing New Brunswickers by not correctly property taxing Irving's LNG Canaport, or levying a carbon tax on their business as well?
David Amos
Reply to @Greg Smith: Methinks everybody knows why Mr Higgs does not answer important emails N'esy Pas?
Josef Blow
Reply to @David Amos: Actually everyone does not likely know everything that you do, Dave. Feel free to share the wealth of your experience and acumen...
Matt Steele With the U de M and the CCNB refusing to provide information , it seems pretty obvious that they have something to hide . The Francophonie games was just a giant SCAM from day 1 so that Brian Gallant and his select SANB buddies , and personal friends , could fill their pockets with taxpayer cash . On one hand , Brian Gallant personally ordered that a scam property tax system be fast tracked , and the HST be raised , because the Province was in such bad financial shape , and needed more TAX MONEY ; yet he was more than willing to blow through 130 MILLION on some games that were only going to last 2 weeks . Sadly , N.Bers will end up paying Gallant a taxpayer funded pension that he CERTAINLY DOES NOT DESERVE !
Mack Leigh
Reply to @Matt Steele: Amen !!!
David Amos
Reply to @Matt Steele: YUP
Marilyn Carr Every thing is secret when it comes to french and their never ending call for more of NB tax payers money.
Josef Blow
Reply to @Marilyn Carr: And you can get away with posting this stuff? In writing "when it comes to french"… tell us what you really mean.
Cleve Gallant
Reply to @Josef Blow: Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what Marilyn is saying, But than again you don’t want to hear the truth,
David Amos
Reply to @Marilyn Carr: YUP
Josef Blow
Reply to @Cleve Gallant: Not everyone is a space man like you Cleve. Tell me the truth, I’m listening.
Mack Leigh Oh what a surprise !!! The University of Moncton refused to release any documents regarding this fiasco... Heaven forbid that the UduM be accountable for the millions received from the taxpayers...all of the taxpayers of this province both federally and provincially..
Bob Smith
Reply to @Mack Leigh: It's well known that the organizing committee approached the university for a wish list of improvements they'd like to have for hosting events. The trouble was there was no one to say anything was extravagant/not needed/unnecessary. The committee saw the games as a showcase for New Brunswick and costs weren't their problem.
Josef Blow
Reply to @Mack Leigh: FYI, all NB universities are recipients of millions from taxpayers. Francophone taxpayers pay the same taxes as anglophone taxpayers, and so on. I'm sure you get the picture.
Dale Chapman
Reply to @Josef Blow: As a taxpayer in this province, I am tired of hearing both sides of the Anglophone / Francophone debate whine and complain about how much money they pay in tax and how much money they receive. The real reality of the situation is that we are a "have-not" province, deeply indebted and are only able to keep our lifestyle courtesy of the transfer payments provided by Ottawa courtesy of the taxpayers who are west of the Quebec - Ontario border (let's remember that Quebec, Nova Scotia, PEI and Newfoundland are also net recipient of transfer payments, so are also in the same boat as us). The cancellation of the games was the right thing to do based on the ballooning costs. As a taxpayer, I want to have value for my tax dollar expenditures. Adding facilities to a university is generally good value, so I wouldn't have minded if UdeM would have benefited. That being said, if Bob Smith's comment was accurate, greed is one of the problems that doomed the games... greed on the part of the UdeM and other organizations in the Moncton area wanting more than what was needed for the games.
Greg Miller
Reply to @Josef Blow: Your right but I think what people are saying is that the Francophone taxpayers get a much better cost-benefit ratio for their taxes than do the Anglophones. Difficult to dispute.
Greg Miller
Reply to @Dale Chapman: Well said!
David Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Surprise Surprise Surprise
Josef Blow
Reply to @Dale Chapman: I don’t know if greed was in fact a high motivator in this fiasco, but a fiasco it is! But I agree Dale that NB is not in any position to throw money around.
Josef Blow
Reply to @Greg Miller: I don’t know what the actual numbers would say with respect to your point.
Emails urged Higgs to cancel plans to host Francophonie Games
After cost of hosting Games ballooned by millions, some people vented to the premier directly
Some members of the public vented directly to Premier Blaine Higgs via email, after learning of ballooning costs associated with hosting the 2021 Francophonie Games. The government later cancelled plans to host the games. (CBC)
A few hours after the public learned that hosting the 2021 Francophonie Games could cost taxpayers seven times more than expected, emails from the public began to flow into Premier Blaine Higgs's email account.
Over the next week, he would receive more than 40 email messages from members of the public, according to hundreds of pages of records from the Premier's Office obtained by CBC News through access to information.
All of the emails had a similar tone: the writers either urged Higgs to cancel the province's plans to host the games or questioned government spending on the games to date.
It wasn't hard for them to find out how to contact the premier, whose email is listed on the government's website.
Friday was the deadline for another host to step up with a bid, but it's unclear whether anyone has showed serious interest.
Public feedback
After the government set a $10 million limit, one email writer from Moncton urged Higgs to "please stick to what's right for the people of NB as a whole."
"If scrapping the games altogether is what is best in the end, then it's what needs to be done," the person, whose name is redacted, wrote to Higgs.
The email writer told Higgs they are French Acadian but chose to write the email in English "in hopes [of] conveying that I'm not on any side of the division we have faced and still do due to language."
The last time the games were held in Canada was 2001. They cost Ottawa and Gatineau $32 million at the time. (Jim Young/Reuters)
Another writer, identified only as a French Immersion teacher originally from Edmundston, said they were initially excited to hear the games would be hosted in New Brunswick. But they changed their mind after hearing the price.
"For the past 21 years I've been working in the school system where our technology is outdated and have no funds to replace it," the person wrote on Dec. 14.
Some writers pointed to Calgary's decision last November to dump plans to bid on the 2026 Winter Olympics, encouraging Higgs to do the same. The abandoned Calgary bid still cost governments more than $17 million, according to a report earlier this week.
'This will be brought to the premier's attention'
Others reminded Higgs of the fiscally responsible promises he made during the 2018 election campaign.
"If you go ahead with allowing Moncton to host, then what you have been saying in your speeches about cutting back and getting NB to a balanced budget will no longer be true," said one email, dated Dec. 11.
With the government looking for places to find savings, cancelling the games fit "right in the Tories' wheelhouse," according to J.P. Lewis, a political scientist at the University of New Brunswick Saint John.
It's not surprising to hear the feedback Higgs received about the Francophonie Games, according to J.P. Lewis, a political scientist at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. (Graham Thompson/CBC)
"Especially if [Higgs] had that anecdotal evidence from the public writing in to say that they wanted him to take this direction," Lewis said.
"To hear now that it was that type of response they got isn't really surprising, considering how it appeared to be playing out on the ground, especially as the expenses added up."
Most people who wrote the premier received a standard email response from a staff member that thanked them for writing.
"Please be assured this will be brought to the premier's attention," it says.
CBC News seeks more documents
CBC News obtained thousands of pages of records from provincial government departments about plans for Moncton and Dieppe to host the 2021 Francophonie Games, which have been described as the largest sporting and cultural event in the French-speaking world.
They reveal just how invested the former Liberal government, led by former Premier Brian Gallant, was in landing the games.
But finding records created by the games organizing committee wasn't easy. That's because the committee isn't subject to federal or provincial access to information legislation.
Documents reveal the extent of former Premier Brian Gallant's involvement in landing the 2021 Francophonie Games. (Photo: CBC)
Other public bodies that are subject to such legislation have refused access to records about the games.
Karissa Donkin is a journalist in CBC's Atlantic investigative unit. Do you have a story you want us to investigate? Send your tips to NBInvestigates@CBC.ca.
