Status of Recommendations (Updated March 2005)

Implemented

• Develop a Business Registry
• Develop and implement a Business Impact Test
• Streamline interactions with Canada Customs and Revenue Agency
• Appoint a facilitator for large development projects
• Commitment to e-business
• Enforce an alternate dispute resolution process
• Close tenders 48 hours after last Addendum
• Improve quality of design plans
• Enforce provisions of the Crown Constructions Act
• Develop an enhanced communication plan to communicate safety to smaller workplaces
• Consult stakeholders prior to the proclamation of the Transportation of Primary Forest Products Act
• Make fines for tour bus operators more competitive
• Introduce an earlier Capital Budget
• Allow liquor licensees to make purchases with credit cards
• Streamline the process for obtaining and renewing liquor licenses
• Improve the highway signage program
• New highway signage regulations (April 4, 2001)
• Improvements to highway advertisement regulation (September 16, 2002)
• Establish a public/private working group on improving services to the trucking industry
• Increase the number of vehicles that farmers can register as farm trucks
• Conduct a review of red tape in the agriculture industry
• Eliminate the transfer fee when property is transferred between the same entities
• Enact legislation to enable funding for the Construction Safety Association
• Increase services available through Service New Brunswick
• Transparency of fees
• Improve the process for delivering financial assistance to businesses
• Improve communications of new market opportunities to small businesses
• Pilot a single point registration for construction licenses and permits
• Eliminate duplications in licenses and permits in the construction industry
• Standardization of building inspections
• Reduce growing paper burden in record keeping

In Progress

• Implement partial year licenses for heavy construction vehicles
• Scale permit and licensing process to fit size of food establishment

Reviewed -- Status Quo Maintained

• Guidelines for distributing Crown Lands
• Examine how small processors can access domestic neighbour markets
• Registration of boats and pleasure craft to ensure uniform tax, registration, safety and insurance requirements
• Required practices of private sector translation
• Establish a contractor registry
• Disclose revenues from liquor service levy