Yesterday the provincial government committed a significant amount of funding for a variety of projects across the province. Supported projects include upgrades to the St. John’s Convention Centre, more money for the refurbishment of the COlonial Building, hockey arenas in Harbour Grace, Conception Bay, and Paradise, and a new swimming centre in Marystown. The announcements yesterday alone totalled more than $100 million. Electioneering? Buying votes? “If I were spending outside of the budget, then I could understand that kind of a criticism,” Dunderdale said Wednesday. “But telling people how their money is going to be spent, how that offends people given that the money was announced in April, I’m at a loss to understand.”
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What about rural NL communities and their recreational needs? What about their programs and the student debt rural residents are incurring just to live in St. john’s, let alone get an education.
Rural students are being unfairly punished for trying to get an education (paying $800 rent, lights, heat, food). What is left from the inadequate government loan system.
We have a two tier education system – one for the students living with mom and dad in the city – with three meals a day, clothes washed, car, etc. They don’t need to find a part time job to make ends meet. But the rural student will be at a disadvantage to learning if they are working at Tims all day to pay the bills.
it’s time for this government to look outside the overpass. Its torn down now so they have no excuse.