Today's update on the New Brunswick trucking protest
From canada.com:
Grocery stores and other businesses in New Brunswick were running short on supplies Thursday as a three-day old trucking protest clogged Atlantic Canada's major highway.
As the economic impact mounted, premiers of three Maritime provinces and Quebec held an emergency conference call to discuss the paralysis on the Trans-Canada Highway and called for an end to the truckers' protest....
[Premier Bernard] Lord said some grocery stores in northern New Brunswick were running out of fresh produce, meat and milk, while farmers are complaining about shortages of animal feed.
Ironically, gas stations -- the source of the trucking dispute as prices soared into the stratosphere in recent days -- were closing due to fuel shortages....
Stephane Robichaud of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business [said that] "Dairy farmers are having to throw away milk because they can't move it out; stores have no bread or milk left on their shelves because the supplies can't get in; gas stations are starting to run out of fuel in parts of Atlantic Canada, and countless businesses are being affected because of transportation disruptions."...
The New Brunswick premier said he will make sure gas prices are on the agenda at an upcoming energy ministers meeting and at a finance ministers meeting.
He said he will also ask Ottawa to have the federal competition bureau investigate the recent price spike in gas....
Previous blog entries on the Truckers and Drivers Assocation of North America, the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association, the North Western New Brunswick Truckers Association, Bernard Lord, Ralph Boyd, Eric Bijeau, and other players are here, here, and here.
[OE UPDATE 5:48 PM PDT - THE RCMP IS ISSUING TICKETS.]
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