This is a factor often overlooked when discussing New Brunswick (though I'm not certain I've ever seen New Brunswick discussed on HN before.

Add in the McCains, and that's pretty much everybody.

Google results for where New Brunswick appeared on Hacker news if your interested:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fnews.yc...

>so its not any kind of shock they stifle oversight.

How does suppressing this disease help the corrupt government and/or the Irving family?

The Irving businesses seem to include a number of industrial concerns, including oil refineries, forestry and factories. If environmental contamination is a possible factor in this disease (and here’s an article suggesting that’s a top candidate) then one of those businesses could very well be a source. (And even if it isn’t the cause of this disease cluster, who knows what results might pop out of a thorough environmental analysis.)

https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/atlantic/2021/3/26/1_5363850.h...

If they have reason to believe that, eg, the timing of the appearance of this cluster lines up with (to pull a hypothetical out of the air) industrial waste dumping in the Acadian peninsula water supply, attempting to muddy the water over whether this is a cluster with a shared cause or a bunch of fluke one-offs is certainly in their interests.

NB is also the most immigration friendly province in Canada. It proactively imports tons of IT companies looking for cheap visas.

Perhaps looking for cheap(er) employees.

Cheaper employees and to fill in the talent gap. Most local talent is busy and not moving around, the population is not big enough to fill in the hires. We also outsource our devs to other countries (in my experience USA). I assume it's because we're cheaper as well...

Also bilingual, so it's a great province to move into if you're French and looking to learn English.

As a child when there I did not know that ... but I knew the name

https://trademark.trademarkia.com/irving-75613723.html