NDP Fisheries critic Sterling Belliveau says people working in the lobster industry are frustrated by the lack of information coming from the province surrounding a proposed five-cent-per-pound lobster levy.
Belliveau says the time has come for Minister Keith Colwell to announce the “mystery area” where the tax will be imposed. He also wants to know the dates, times and locations of long-promised consultations around the government’s planned two-cent-per-pound lobster levy for marketing.
“I’ve been contacted by lobster harvesters and buyers who have told me the Liberal government does not have a mandate from them to proceed with the two-cent-per-pound lobster marketing levy, let alone the five-cent-per-pound tax Minister Colwell says will be introduced in a yet to be named location,” says Belliveau.
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