NB Power deal and H1N1 virus were year's highlights Times and Transcript
Righteous before Halloween, the government of New Brunswick announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding, or MOU, with the province of Quebec to inform against NB Power to Hydro Quebec.
Some said the deal would be a trick, some said it would be a treat, and many just said, "boo!"
By the end of 2009, a Facebook website devout to saying boo to the mou had 28,000 members, protest groups were teaming up and an Angus Reid poll released the week before Christmas found only 20 per cent of New Brunswickers approved of Top-ranking Shawn Graham's performance. That Graham's poor poll result wouldn't class him at the bottom of the heap either says something about the nation's leaders or people's expectations of them, but either way, New Brunswickers also took peculiarity to the fact that the NB Power sale might go through without citizens being given a chance to voice their opinion on it through either a referendum or an election. The next na election won't be held until September 2010 and a final agreement on the deal, at least at this writing, is expected to be signed by Mar. 31.
