NSEF & Derek Mombourquette, Minister of Municipal Affairs

Please read through the emails between our Dr. Rev. Albert Maroun and Derek Mombourquette below.

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From: Albert Maroun <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, May 15, 2018 at 1:01 PM
Subject: Meeting with NSEF
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], Allan MacMaster < [email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], Tammy Martin < [email protected]>

Hello Derek Mombourquette:

Again, we are requesting a meeting with you at your earliest convenience. The people you represent are contacting us at the NSEF, in large numbers about your silence on this issue. It is a sad day when we have to take angry phone calls and emails from your constituents about your lack of availability to the community you represent. We need a meeting with you regarding the Equalization distribution in this province. The NSEF does not want a letter sent back to us stating something other than a time and date for said meeting.

Please be aware that all correspondence with government from the NSEF is posted on all social media platforms and your silence is just making people mad.

Regards,

Dr. Rev. Albert Maroun &
The Nova Scotians for Equalization Fairness
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From:Minister, DMA<[email protected]>
Date: Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:23 PM
Subject: Correspondence from Minister Mombourquette
To: Albert Maroun <[email protected]>
Cc: Correspondence Prem <[email protected]>

May 14, 2018

Mr. Albert Maroun and Nova Scotians for Equalization Fairness Group

VIA E-MAIL: [email protected]

Dear Mr. Maroun:

As Minister of Municipal Affairs, the Premier has asked that I respond to your e-mail of April 11, 2018, regarding a meeting with the Nova Scotians for Equalization Fairness.

I would encourage you to refer to the Minister of Finance and Treasury Board’s correspondence to you dated March 23, 2018. This correspondence provides detailed information on the Government of Canada’s Equalization Program and the unconditional operating grant administered by the Department of Municipal Affairs, also called “equalization.” This correspondence provides clarification on the confusion between the two programs and, I believe, addresses your concerns.

Thank you for writing to express your thoughts on this important topic.

Sincerely,

Original signed by:

Derek Mombourquette

Minister of Municipal Affairs

c: Honourable Stephen McNeil, Premier (041218207)

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Dear Mr. Mombourquette:

Your response of May 14,2018 implies, that as the MLA representative for this community as well as the provincial minister responsible for this issue, you are informing us that you will not meet with our NSEF committee to seriously discuss your government’s distribution within this province of the federal Equalization payments.

Your comment that Minister Casey’s letter dated March 23, 2018, clarified this matter is a manifestation that you and your premier are living under the misapprehension that your government’s attempt to defend this manipulation within this province of the federal Equalization payments by arguing there is a confusion between the two programs is utterly contemptible and even reprehensible.

This is a completely unacceptable response from an elected representative and our committee has no other option but to inform the general public of your complete abdication of your oath to represent the people who elected you.

Sincerely,

Fr. Albert Maroun, PhD

Nova Scotians for Equalization Fairness
C: Mr. Stephen McNeil, Premier

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CORRESPONDENCE: A meeting was respectfully requested (repeatedly) and sadly the response is as seen here. No acknowledgement of the meeting request.
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Brenda Matheson Follow Me
It is very difficult to work with people who won't even speak with you.
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When will our politicians start to take us serious. We should not have to jump through hoops and barrels to get a meeting with them. The time has come to hit the streets again.
Brenda Matheson Follow Me
What a marvelous way to work off the frustration of political deafness.Count me in!
Joe Ward Follow Me
Minister Mombourquette advertises office hours when he's working out of his Whitney Pier satellite location. Perhaps Dr. Maroun and some NSEF representatives could simply appear at this office for an impromptu meeting if the Minister does not otherwise offer a formal meeting time. If he refuses to take the meeting while they are there, have someone live stream an update to the group from with his office/waiting area, and invite any members of the local media that are available to drop by for an interview at his location.

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