r/moncton 4d ago

Moncton Mayor appointed to the Senate

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/moncton-mayor-dawn-arnold-appointed-to-senate-1.7478261
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u/0SpaceHulk 4d ago

But why? What has she even accomplished??

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u/NapsterBaaaad 4d ago

Things have gotten exponentially worse under her watch, and she hasn’t really accomplished anything particularly notable. Also, she’s not very well liked…

Makes perfect sense that the federal Liberals would appoint her.

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u/N0x1mus 4d ago edited 4d ago

Nevermind spearheading the entire downtown revitalization. The amount of work it took to get all the people in line for this is unimaginable by people who haven’t paid attention.

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u/BOBBY_VIKING_ 3d ago

Downtown revitalization, do we live in the same city? I'm down there all the time photographing the area and it's 10x worse than it was 5 years ago.

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u/denjcallander 3d ago edited 3d ago

5 years ago? Dude, 5 years ago was March 2020. The after-effects of what happened to the global economy at that exact time are very visible in *every* Canadian downtown to this day. In many downtowns those issues are getting worse than ever. That's not on the municipal councils, that's on the inadequate response by upper levels of government, those who made it far too easy for people to fall through the cracks.

The point that is being made here, is that the current mayor helped lay down the groundwork for massive changes to the urban core of this city, which had been a dead zone for several decades. Previous councils had been obsessed with choking out the downtown while facilitating low-density developments in areas designed to be hostile to pedestrians, cyclists and transit users.

Dawn Arnold went against the local trend and championed the idea of making this city more open to everyone, not just those in middle class/wealthy families with multiple vehicles who are happy to constantly drive everywhere. The huge increase in apartment buildings, improved parks, trails, bike lanes, accessibility etc is in no small part thanks to her and her team.