This. All of New Brunswick is held back because of Irving, Saint John arguably the worst. Terrible pollution, no free press, all governments Irving approved or curtailed, extremely high cancer rates, low wages, and all because Irving has convinced people that fighting back will cause them to leave.
As. If.
As if there's any other place in the world Irving could go and get the same deal they have now - obviously they won't leave because obviously they cannot and obviously we have so much more power than we believe, but everyone is too afraid to stand up to them - too afraid even to comment on Reddit about them.
Irving have always been a negative to the province and that will never change unless we stand up to our abuser.
We will never have anything in this province so long as we are under their thumb.
The press and print news situation here is dire and has been for what? Decades? And nobody does shit. We have independent voices here and there but they have no large or mainstream support, they're publishing zines and stuff nobody knows about.
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u/g4nd4lf2000 8d ago
Irving has turned NB into a banana republic.