Hon. Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx BIOSITE DIAGNOSTICS, INC. ) ) Defendant. ) JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER OF DISMISSAL Pursuant to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the parties hereto, by their respective counsel, hereby stipulate and agree that this action and all claims contained therein are hereby dismissed with prejudice, each party to bear its own costs. Dated: September ___, 1996 Respectfully submitted, ------------------------------------ Mark Xxxxx John X. Xxxexx Xxxx Xxx XxXxxxx Xxxtxxx Xxxxxxx & Xuttxx Three First Natixxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000 (312) 000-0000 ------------------------------------ Carl X. Xxxxx, Xx. Marsxxxx X'Xxxxx Xxxsxxxx Xxxxxx & Borun 283 X. Xxxxxx Xxxxx Suite 6300 Chicago, Illinois 60606 (312) 000-0000 Attorneys for Abbot Laboratories
Hon. Xx. Xxxxxx: I have to tell you something. Going by the Electricity Act that these people put in place, we do not do that. We do not interfere. We do not touch that stuff. I have to tell you something. Going by the Electricity Act that these people put in place, we do not do that. We do not interfere. We do not touch that stuff. The member opposite should know better on that. Xx. Xxxxx: Deflect, deny, and push stuff outside the question, so the question comes back very clearly. We have learned that the businessman who had this deal cancelled is not a supporter of the local Liberal MLA. Over the last three years, the Xxxxxxx government has turned the clock back to the middle of the last century when old-time political patronage was rampant. Pulling a charging station out of a business that does not support the Liberals is just what we have come to expect. It looks as though one project got past the prying eyes of the Liberal patronage machine, so they had to deal with it. How much money had NB Power already spent in preparing the site? We know that the power poles were already installed, just a few weeks ago. We know that the contract was signed just a few months ago. Now we know that they will likely have to be removed—more money spent, more money wasted. It is only the tip of the iceberg in the spending spree of this government, but I would like to know this: Would the minister say categorically right here in this House that he played no role in having this decision reversed? Hon. Xx. Xxxxxx: Just to set the record straight, I do not have an office down in the NB Power building. I do not intend to have an office down in the NB Power building. That is interference, such as they did before the Electricity Act came into place. Maybe we will talk about the Electricity Act. We can get into the details of the Electricity Act very quickly. I do not think the members opposite read Xxxx 39 very thoroughly or went through the information that was in Bill 39. Bill 39 was set in place by the previous government and came into effect in 2014 after the provincial election. We can see what took place. I think the member opposite should realize that there are some very capable people down the street who run NB Power. They do not need me to interfere in what is going on in their day-to- day operations. I think they can handle things quite well. For me to meddle in something as small as that, I think, would be pretty wrong.
Hon. Xx. Xxxxxx: I do not tell the utility to change the colour of the entryway. I do not tell it to clean its toilets. I do not tell it how to decorate its Christmas tree. There are very capable people down at the utility who can do that. Therefore, we do not meddle in the day-to-day operations of things such as the member opposite is mentioning. This is something that I found out about a couple of days ago. The meddling that he is claiming is going on did not take place. I think we should rest at that. I think the utility can take care of its own situation and its own issues that it is dealing with on a day in, day out basis. Xx. Xxxxx: I said that would be my last question, but I guess the answer here would be “guilty”. Yes, he found out a couple of days ago that we found out and that there would be an issue. That is the part that he found out a couple of days ago. Now, it is an issue, and now, it is clear that somebody got in the middle, changed this, and made a decision different from the one that NB Power had already made.
Hon. Xx. Xxxxxxx: The deal is not signed yet, so we cannot divulge all the goings-on in the discussions. We did talk about what the KPIs are. If you want to go back to the assertions argument, let’s talk about Xxxxxxx, and then we can go into the other assertions of the Leader of the Opposition. The Leader of the Opposition thought it was bad that there was sole-sourcing going on with Medavie, yet when they were in the government, they sole-sourced Medavie and the drug plan. He said, when he was Finance Minister, that he would balance the books within four years—no problem—without any cuts or any tax increases. He raised taxes, made cuts, and did not balance the books. He asserted that he did not support and promote the LNG terminal tax break, yet there is an ad—and he has yet to explain it—that he has signed, where he is clearly supporting and promoting the LNG tax break for the terminal. He said that there were too many hospitals and schools. He denied that assertion, yet we have it in Hansard. We see that the Leader of the Opposition does not know if he is coming or going, but he does know that he wants to cut. He wants austerity in this province to happen. Mr. Speaker: Time, Premier.
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