(Saint John Mayor Ivan Court)
(File Photo)
Enterprise Saint John says the city's business community is optimistic these days with the local economy more diversified now than it was 15 years ago. Enterprise Saint John chair Tony Goguen has told Common Council the key to growing the economy in the information age is the quality of your workers which is even more important to business than tax breaks.
Common Councillor Peter McGuire concedes he's struggling with giving Enterprise Saint John another 400 thousand dollars to operate. He believes the time may have arrived for the city to take back control of economic development.
Mayor Ivan Court warns the city can't continue to operate if half the workers live outside the city limits and he's suggesting the outside municipalities will have to start paying for Saint John's infrastructure.
Goguen says a priority with be future development of the knowledge cluster at Tucker Park with the university, Regional Hospital and now medical school.