Today we have 2 links concerning the Bluenose cost over runs after the minister took over the file. Please note the dates of the links. Bluenose Feb14/2015 http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fcanada%2Fnova-scotia%2Fbluenose-ii-project-has-a-positive-story-says-geoff-maclellan-1.2944826&h=ATMUEoXdlhQ_GWADqqlQjW7n02WWG14ThS0TC2e7GTZrZwTIQaZfg-ZAX2K4IiHfji0wgILeH2odo03LQdB07BOCIoMBdfsk7GrnM8BrUNDtfWSUi3ssPMqDdF97_3uRVCkbiEDBQ2s Mar 3/2017 https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestar.com%2Fnews%2Fcanada%2F2016%2F03%2F03%2Fprice-tag-for-bluenose-ii-rebuild-pushes-past-25-million.html&h=ATNnW8beC6x4DNM7WpM3HDXlGI0Xf3NB5I9P2t1hMYFnWt_YDiQW_iBZo5HsUmqm73pSFprAJ02UUX91qdb0LWHvoGWELdN0lgknGn_rSNvLbGGmZNwv6iz7O83eU57IEb2KZtoV6hI

I hope he did his homework and due diligence on the new owners of the Donkin Mine https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fillinoistimes.com%2Farticle-13516-mine-safety-regulator-took-campaign-cash-from-coal-magnate.html&h=ATP0hj9qvN9QXf2JczeLWT7otdhPxrHln7m4uU052gO1rFkQiZCCGADHJLRvTEdBpxfdJ63uM_vAtDD_SydcvwcLRMRrnx7ECLerscnl4lEu_fQ7HMPwxEJlaeJPbrF3sOoW0EgL_r1K7XcYbFUYtmBH1hlX99jhFGUU_kSHKRvg2GUC9wnXAe_yUVIEA5i_11CwEdS-ohnFSBgdCQXBAeJgTP4D5p-_tFNl5_iw5is4-HagUwUN0bARH8okojVJpKMNS-wZP81H_Ii2g9mpBVK9LIanMEOobvO_CKFy

September 27/2017 link to an embarrassing Track record. A track record that took a man from a majority to a minority win in the last May election. It's an interesting conversation, I never had a conversation because I don't care but if I did care I bet it would be interesting This is a quote from our Minister of Transportation at the time. Copied from the Cape Breton Post June-2014 " Transportation Minister Geoff MacLellan said he hasn’t had any conversations with CN officials about any involvement it may have should the line be abandoned and possibly put up for sale. “The fact that there was an arrangement, or at least a suggestion of an arrangement, that CN would look after the line … I think it’s an interesting conversation,” he said, Friday." " I think it's an interesting conversation" Cannot make this stuff up. Our Minister of Transportation stated that it's an interesting conversation. In a letter to Savage shortly after his party won the May 25, 1993, provincial election, CN Rail chief executive Paul Tellier wrote to the premier confirming the Crown corporation’s pledge to continue operating the rail line. The short, one-paragraph letter, dated June 30, 1993, says, “… should Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia cease operations, Canadian National Railways agrees to ensure the continuation of rail service on the Truro-Sydney provincial short-line.” In hearings before the National Transportation Agency held a few weeks prior to the issuing of this letter, CN outlined its responsibilities in selling the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway Ltd. to RailTex, a U.S. short-line railroad holding company, which merged into RailAmerica in 2000. A decision by the transportation agency released in July of that year, stated CN had the right of first refusal to take over operation of the line, if necessary. RailAmerica sought to abandon th

https://globalnews.ca/news/2654293/donkin-coal-mine-in-cape-breton-to-open-this-summer-amid-safety-concerns-from-critics/

Another quote from the Minister ""It's very safe, very protective, and very mechanical," Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Geoff MacLellan assures a CBC reporter. “I can vouch for that,” MacLellan adds for emphasis, and the CBC reporter leaves the assertion unchallenged. Yet in 2008 current Kameron Collieries executive Ed Griffith was part of the executive team running the West Virginia based Broad Run Mine, another Cline subsidiary. At that time Broad Run Mine was assessed $291,600 in fines. Coal dust accumulations were the issue. Coal dust accumulation, by the way, was also what caused Nova Scotia's Westray mine disaster.