Major Drilling CEO Francis McGuire tells CHSJ news we need to think about things like transportation and maybe even shale gas to create higher-paying jobs.
New Brunswick desperately needs to grow its tax base, but we're not exactly excelling at that. He says we should ideally be adding 375,000 people a day to our population, but in fact we haven't added a single person in five years.
According to McGuire, New Brunswickers earn only 85% of the average income in Canada, and we won't have a stable tax base until we get up to speed.
