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Brent Staeben's avatar

I often wonder how Harvest would survive if there were no airport in Fredericton. I really think our ability to bring in anything beyond smaller US groups would be massively constrained. Who wants to travel from New Orlean to LGA/Newark to Toronto to Sussex or Moncton and then have another 70-90 minute drive? Absolutely no one, that’s who.

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George McAllister's avatar

Very good comments David! The things you suggest need to be fully thought out before endorsing one airport at Sussex. Many people have proposed solutions based on per capita numbers (for example civil servants per capita or population base for local governments etc). Too often, the distribution of NB’s population is not taken into account. With respect to local government viability, some have proposed just drawing a big circle in order to get sufficient population to make a municipality. The truth is that it is population density, not population size that makes local public service provision viable. As with your airport discussion, there are more things to consider than x/capita.

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