Roads vs. education
UNB Chancellor and business leader Richard Currie was featured in a Telegraph Journal article that explores the relative spending of provinces on various services. The article points out that throughout the late 1990s to 2007 NB spent more than anywhere else in Canada on roads (per person) and that NB spent the least per capita in Canada on post secondary education.
The article compares these stats with other provinces and the interviewees challenge the government to refocus spending on priorities other than roads.
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/1385877
3 comments:
Call me crazy but with the state of our local roads I don't think there is a lot of room for cutting back.
We have too many km of road per citizen. We can't expect to maintain all of them to pleasure cruising standards while keeping up in other budget areas.
If we were able to look at a piece of physical infrastructure that reflected the condition of our education levels, it would look much worse than the roads.
Investing in a road makes it nice till it falls apart again. Investing in education has huge return value for the community.
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