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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:38:35 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Higgy et al the RCMP and the CBC
should try to explain to me real slow Billy Buckner's comment and why
my reply was blocked N'esy Pas?
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:38:31 -0400
Subject: Methinks Higgy et al the RCMP and the CBC should try to
explain to me real slow Billy Buckner's comment and why my reply was
blocked N'esy Pas?
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Higgs agenda to be unveiled with first throne speech of majority government
One academic expects to see hints of the premier's true priorities in
today's speech from the throne
Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Nov 17, 2020 8:00 AM AT
60 Comments
David Amos
Methinks it would make my day to see the disenchanted former cabinet
ministers Anderson, Wilson, Wetmore, Carr and Stewart follow former
Deputy Premier Gauvin's lead and sit as independents today. I bet the
PANB, the liberals, their green meanie buddies and many folks in New
Brunswick would love the possibility of Humpty Dumpty falling off the
wall when they vote on the Throne Speech then we could celebrate
Higgy's police state fading into history before the Yuletide season
begins N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Dea Vu anyone?
Several high-profile ministers dropped as Blaine Higgs unveils new cabinet
Premier appoints 6 women to 16-member cabinet in Tuesday's swearing-in ceremony
Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Sep 29, 2020 2:40 PM AT
"Premier Blaine Higgs has jettisoned six members of his previous
cabinet and has appointed six women as ministers in a sweeping
post-election shuffle.
The six Progressive Conservative MLAs who served in Higgs's cabinet
from 2018 until they were dropped Tuesday include high-profile members
Andrea Anderson-Mason, who was attorney general, Jeff Carr who was at
Environment and Local Government, and Jake Stewart who was minister of
Aboriginal affairs.
Bill Oliver, Sherry Wilson and Ross Wetmore are also out.
Dorothy Shephard, who oversaw a bitter battle with nursing-home unions
through most of 2019, has been promoted to health minister.
Besides the COVID-19 pandemic, Shephard faces pressure for Medicare to
fund abortions at Fredericton's Clinic 554, which is on the verge of
closing."
Dianne MacPherson
Reply to @David Amos:
What a nasty thing to post !!
If any of those MLAs were in my Riding
they would not get my vote...again.
David Amos
Reply to @Dianne MacPherson: So says a Higgy fan
Billy Buckner
Reply to @David Amos: Methinks they all have a stronger backbone than
Gauvin and his coward ways, and turning his back on those who voted
him in. Considering your picture and name is listed on every gov'ts
building POI list I think we can all safely disregard anything you
post as nonsensical and irrelevant. But I enjoy reading your posts for
the pure entertainment factor N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Billy Buckner: Try telling me something I don't already know
Methinks you have no idea how illegal posting my picture was N'esy Pa
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From: "Higgs, Premier Blaine (PO/CPM)" <Blaine.Higgs@gnb.ca>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:41:03 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Anderson-Mason, Carr, Stewart,
Wilson and Wetmore should follow Gauvin's lead and sit as Independents
ASAP and rule over Higgy's circus N'esy Pas?
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Merci.
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From: "Brown, Nick (ECO/BCE)" <Nick.Brown@gnb.ca>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:41:03 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Anderson-Mason, Carr, Stewart,
Wilson and Wetmore should follow Gauvin's lead and sit as Independents
ASAP and rule over Higgy's circus N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
I am out of the office. For assistance please contact Flavio Nienow-
Flavio.Nienow@gnb.ca
Je ne suis plus au bureau. Veuillez contacter Flavio Nienow-
Flavio.Nienow@gnb.ca
GO FIGURE
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From: "Fitch, Bruce Hon. (SD/DS)" <Bruce.Fitch@gnb.ca>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:03:18 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Anderson-Mason, Carr, Stewart,
Wilson and Wetmore should follow Gauvin's lead and sit as Independents
ASAP and rule over Higgy's circus N'esy Pas?
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Higgs agenda to be unveiled with first throne speech of majority government
One academic expects to see hints of the premier's true priorities in today's speech from the throne
The speech from the throne will be delivered in the legislature today, a
first look at the priorities of the new Higgs majority government. (Karissa Donkin/CBC)
The New Brunswick Legislature begins a new session Tuesday that could finally reveal how far Premier Blaine Higgs wants to go in transforming the province.
Higgs's government, which won its first majority in September's election, will lay out its agenda when Lt.-Gov. Brenda Murphy delivers the speech from the throne shortly after 1 p.m.
The premier no longer has to worry about the three opposition parties teaming up to defeat him, as they threatened to do in February over his plan for health care reform.
"Because Higgs defended his call for an election based on wanting a majority … it must mean something," said University of New Brunswick political scientist J.P. Lewis.
"There could be directions in which the government wants to go in that were not possible when they didn't have a majority of seats in the legislature."
Higgs has frequently said he is on a "mission to save New Brunswick."
UNB Saint John political scientist J.P. Lewis says if the
Blaine Higgs government were to make a controversial move, it would be
more likely early in the new mandate. (Graham Thompson/CBC)
The PC government has identified local government reform as a top priority, and Health Minister Dorothy Shephard said Friday she wants to wrap up consultations on health reform by the end of March.
February's health plan, which included reductions to emergency departments at six small hospitals, was withdrawn within days after all three parties said they might bring down the government over it.
The PCs survived and Higgs called a summer election after trying to get the other parties to agree to a two-year deal to give him the stability he said he needed to keep managing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Higgs made few new promises, offering to continue existing initiatives and let voters judge him on his handling of the pandemic. He even refused to promise a return to balanced budgets after the pandemic's economic hit created a deficit this year.
His party won 27 of 49 seats.
Lewis
said now, "at the furthest point from the next election," is the ideal
time for Higgs to take major steps that might be controversial.
Higgs defended his election call earlier this year by saying his government needed a majority to be effective. (Submitted by the Province of New Brunswick)
"If he had certain policy legacies that he wants to leave, or certain ways he wants to change New Brunswick, the only thing that's tempering that is that we're still in a pandemic," Lewis said.
"If we were ever to look for what was Higgs's ideal imprint on New Brunswick, it would be the speech from the throne, the legislation and the budget that follows him forming a majority government."
At the same time, there are calls for action on affordable housing and on systemic racism.
On Monday, six Wolastoqey chiefs called on PC MLAs with First Nations in their ridings to break ranks with their party and support a motion calling for an inquiry on systemic racism.
Higgs has resisted calls for an inquiry. In the wake of separate police shootings of two Indigenous people earlier this year, Chantel Moore and Rodney Levi, he said he would support an inquiry if the federal government took part.
Former Aboriginal affairs minister Jake Stewart, who Higgs dropped from cabinet in a post-election shuffle, said in September he'll keep lobbying for an inquiry.
"We call on these MLAs to consider their conscience and their obligation to their Indigenous constituents and vote accordingly," said Chief Gabriel Atwin of Kingsclear First Nation, also known as Pilick.
The government must also announce a process for a mandatory 10-year review of the Official Languages Act by the end of 2020.
Among the three opposition parties in the legislature, the People's Alliance will likely see the biggest change now that Higgs has a majority.
Before the election, the three Alliance MLAs frequently voted with the PCs to keep them in power in exchange for being consulted on major initiatives.
Now reduced to just two members, they're getting less attention from the Tories.
"In previous throne speeches, we had the opportunity to have more direct input and ensure that our fingerprints were within its contents, whereas now you've got to wait until it comes out and decide which angle to go from there," said People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin.
Without the leverage they once enjoyed, the Alliance is hoping the relationships it built with Higgs and his ministers will give it the opportunity to keep influencing decisions.
Whether he adopts a more confrontational approach now that he's more fully an opposition figure will depend on the government, Austin said. "At this point it's a wait and see for the throne speech to see what the contents are."
The Official Opposition Liberals chose Dieppe MLA Roger Melanson as their interim leader after Kevin Vickers failed to win a seat in the election.
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DUHHH??? Methinks everybody should know that by now I know that the Irving and McCain Clans figured out long ago that political science ain't rocket science particularly in New Brunswick N'esy Pas?
Several high-profile ministers dropped as Blaine Higgs unveils new cabinet
Premier appoints 6 women to 16-member cabinet in Tuesday's swearing-in ceremony
Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Sep 29, 2020 2:40 PM AT
"Premier Blaine Higgs has jettisoned six members of his previous cabinet and has appointed six women as ministers in a sweeping post-election shuffle.
The six Progressive Conservative MLAs who served in Higgs's cabinet from 2018 until they were dropped Tuesday include high-profile members Andrea Anderson-Mason, who was attorney general, Jeff Carr who was at Environment and Local Government, and Jake Stewart who was minister of Aboriginal affairs.
Bill Oliver, Sherry Wilson and Ross Wetmore are also out.
Dorothy Shephard, who oversaw a bitter battle with nursing-home unions through most of 2019, has been promoted to health minister.
Besides the COVID-19 pandemic, Shephard faces pressure for Medicare to fund abortions at Fredericton's Clinic 554, which is on the verge of closing."
What a nasty thing to post !!
If any of those MLAs were in my Riding
they would not get my vote...again.
Methinks you have no idea how illegal posting my picture was N'esy Pas?
Thanks to the moderots for letting this highly controversial post get through.
It would be nice to hope that Higgs is going to try to be different and provide useful information that NBers can essentially take to the bank.
Only a few hours till we find out. Here's to hoping for something of substance.
It will be more, of what Mr Higgs is good at, undefined goals, and vague promises. I would think the opportunity to announce patronage appointments will not be passed up.
3 new watchdogs appointed
Premier names child and youth advocate, official languages commissioner and ombudsman
CBC News · Posted: Jun 14, 2013 3:24 PM AT
The Alward government has announced the appointment of three new people to watchdog positions in the province, based on a new selection process.
The new child and youth advocate is Saint John lawyer Norm Bossé, who represented victims in the Kingsclear reformatory sex abuse case.
Katherine d'Entremont, a career civil servant, will be the new commissioner of official languages.
And the new ombudsman is Charles Murray, a civil servant and former political assistant to one-time Tory MP Elsie Wayne and to former PC cabinet minister Brad Green.
"I am confident that their experience and education will help them to carry out their respective duties effectively," said Premier David Alward.
He said Murray's appointment is not political."
Very selective short term, and long term, memories, probably due to the lobotomy received at birth.
Or ANY "facts". When you elect a bunch of bumblers, and they bumble about not doing much of anything, facts are rather short in supply.
But the pay cheques aren't "short".
I agree and we can blame the NB Liberals for that !!!!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-throne-speech-higgs-1.5804990
Throne speech promises to 'renew and reinvent' public services
'We understand there will be a time when the pandemic will end, and we must be ready to emerge stronger'
· CBC News · Posted: Nov 17, 2020 1:05 PM AT
The speech from the throne Tuesday was the first for the newly re-elected Progessive Conservative majority government. (CBC)
The Higgs government is leaning heavily on what it says it learned from fighting COVID-19 as it charts a path to a post-pandemic future.
Tuesday's speech from the throne, the first for the newly re-elected Progressive Conservative majority government, promises to "renew and reinvent" how public services are delivered to provide better value to taxpayers.
"We understand there will be a time when the pandemic will end, and we must be ready to emerge stronger," it says.
It points to pandemic innovations such as virtual doctor visits, which reached a peak of 85 per cent of all doctor visits early in the crisis.
It also cites the blended learning model adopted as a necessity in provincial schools as a model to build on to help students use more online tools "to make learning more personalized to their specific interests."
"Your government understands how to navigate tough headwinds and has demonstrated that it is ready to grapple with challenges and meet them head on," Lt.-Gov. Brenda Murphy said, reading the speech prepared by the government.
"Your government invites
all New Brunswickers to engage and keep asking: just how good can we
be? Collectively, we must challenge ourselves to think differently about
ways of working, like citizens did in responding to COVID-19."
Premier lays out new legislative agenda with promise to deliver better service to his "customers." 4:40
Tackling third rails
That includes tackling potentially controversial issues.
The speech mentions plans for reforms to local governance and health care, asking what lessons the pandemic has taught the province about more "co-operation" in the health system.
Higgs told reporters he wants to see less overlap and duplication both within the two regional health authorities and between them.
He said centralizing hip surgeries at St. Joseph's Hospital in Saint John and processing large numbers of COVID-19 tests at the Dr. Georges-L. Dumont Hospital in Moncton are examples of how hospitals can specialize for the benefit of the entire province.
On local government reform,
"it's time to move to action and implementation" of ideas from the
"dozens of studies" that already exist on the issue, the speech says.
The speech cites the blended learning model adopted as a
necessity in provincial schools as a model to build on 'to make learning
more personalized to their specific interests.' (Submitted by Nick Smith)
Higgs said one possible model is a greater role for the eight regional service commissions created almost a decade ago to manage services shared between municipalities and local governments.
"Some have adopted very much a regional approach and it's working very well," he said. "Others haven't done it at all.
"So there are some examples we can look at across the province and say 'Okay this is working well as a community, as a region,' and then we expand upon it."
But he said he would not prescribe a solution and even suggested reform may not be finished in the government's four-year mandate.
The three opposition party leaders criticized the speech for a lack of detail on key issues and almost total silence on others, including affordable housing and systemic racism.
Opposition focus on what's missing
"Some people will say you've got to pay attention not to what's in the speech, but to what's not in the speech," said Opposition Liberal Leader Roger Melanson.
He called the speech an "operational" outline rather than a statement of vision or inspiration. "A society is more than just a budget or a financial statement."
The speech also promises a legally required review of the Official Languages Act but also commits to a discussion of "existing barriers and potential solutions" for language proficiency requirements for government jobs.
Earlier this year, the People's Alliance lobbied for less stringent language requirements for some front-line positions.
The speech suggested bilingualism requirements could make it harder for the province to recruit professionals to the province at a time when the workforce is aging and filling vacant positions is a challenge in some sectors.
The PCs also say they will bring back a controversial bill on binding arbitration that was strongly opposed last year by unions representing police officers and firefighters.
Municipal governments lobbied for the bill, which would require an arbitrator to look at a municipality's ability to pay when considering wage increases.
The bill was sent to a special stakeholder committee for discussions. That group could not reach an agreement and the bill died when Higgs called the election in August, but now it's coming back.
Exploring airports
The PCs also plan to "ask the fundamental question about our airports," facilities that have seen passenger traffic plummet during the pandemic but that the speech says are key to economic growth.
"Is our existing infrastructure meeting the needs of travellers to and from New Brunswick, and is it meeting the needs of the business community and university students who want to call New Brunswick home?"
The speech does not explicitly mention the idea of merging the Saint John, Fredericton and Moncton airports into a single centralized facility, and it's not clear a provincial government would have a role in that because airports are a federal responsibility.
The PCs also plan to 'ask the fundamental question' about New Brunswick airports, which have seen passenger traffic plummet during the pandemic but which the speech says are key to economic growth. (Fredericton International Airport)
But it notes that Halifax Stanfield International Airport has three times the passenger traffic as the three main New Brunswick airports combined, despite Nova Scotia's population being only 25 per cent larger than this province's.
"What are the barriers?" the speech asks. "What are the qualities our province must possess to attract more growth?"
Higgs told reporters that he has seen government money spent on all three main airports and it was worth looking at whether there was a way to do things better.
The speech credits good fiscal management before the pandemic with putting the province in a relatively good position to handle the financial impact of the virus.
It also says New Brunswickers' own following of Public Health guidelines helped limit spread of the virus, which in turn limited the economic damage.
The province is on track for a $183.3 million deficit this year, much lower than earlier projections thanks to injections of federal money.
But the speech also acknowledges that 25 per cent of children in the province live in poverty and 34 per cent of households have incomes so low that they pay no taxes.
About the Author
Jacques Poitras has been CBC's provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick since 2000. Raised in Moncton, he also produces the CBC political podcast Spin Reduxit.
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Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Several high-profile ministers dropped as Blaine Higgs unveils new cabinet
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Several high-profile ministers dropped as Blaine Higgs unveils new cabinet
Premier appoints 6 women to 16-member cabinet in Tuesday's swearing-in ceremony
· CBC News · Posted: Sep 29, 2020 2:40 PM AT
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New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs confronted by Blogger after new Cabinet is reveille!!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUWpI7SDfw
Soon to be name Speaker of the New Brunswick Legislature Bill Oliver is questioned by Blogger!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8ocjAl5c6E
Former Agriculture Minister Ross Wetmore is confronted by the Pain in the Ass Blogger!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwnB07ZBP7g
Minister of Justice, Public Safety and Attorney General Ted Flemming is hunted down by a Pest!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnQouRSqXPc
Leader of the People's Alliance Party Kris Austin was ambushed by the Pain in the Ass Blogger today!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lqM5rjb800
Green Party Leader David Coon confronted on the New Speaker of the New Brunswick Legislature!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E6ulCrRggM
Go Figure what going on in Jake's mind and why Chucky never posted this video in his blog etc
Oct 2, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5tvhK5N8YM
Methinks Jeffy Baby Car ain't laughing now N'esy Pas?
Oct 2, 2020
Meet
Higgy's latest French Leutenant Notice Allain laughing and oking with
Jacques Poitras of CBC in the video above while Car double talks with
Chucky Baby?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_a8lnkDz8Q
Nouveau-Brunswick Vice-Premier Ministre Daniel Allain est confronter par le tannant Blogger!!!
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Higgs, Premier Blaine (PO/CPM)" <Blaine.Higgs@gnb.ca>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 16:34:26 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks it was comical that a dude named
Windsor made fun of Higgy's choice of a tie when his dubious cabinet
appeared while everybody ignores the fact that a Keith speaks for the
Irving Clan N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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Thank you.
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 12:34:20 -0400
Subject: Methinks it was comical that a dude named Windsor made fun of
Higgy's choice of a tie when his dubious cabinet appeared while everybody
To: "blaine.higgs" <blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, "Robert. Jones"
<Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>, "darrow.macintyre" <darrow.macintyre@cbc.ca>,
"kris.austin" <kris.austin@gnb.ca>, "michelle.conroy"
<michelle.conroy@gnb.ca>, "andrea.anderson-mason"
<andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca>
"jake.stewart" <jake.stewart@gnb.ca>, "Arseneau, Kevin (LEG)"
<Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca>, "Mitton, Megan (LEG)"
<megan.mitton@gnb.ca>, "robert.mckee" <robert.mckee@gnb.ca>,
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Canadian Future Party launches, will field candidates in upcoming byelections
Party is billing itself as centrist option for 'politically homeless' voters
Canada's newest federal political party officially launched in Ottawa on Wednesday.
The Canadian Future Party is billing itself as a centrist option for voters unhappy with both the Liberals and Conservatives.
"For too long, Canadians have been asked to play a political shell game," interim leader Dominic Cardy told a press conference in Ottawa.
"Under the shell on the left, the social programs you need. But along with it, too often you have to buy bloated government, ever-increasing spending, divorced from delivering results.
"Under the shell on the right, we're supposed to find fiscal discipline. But along with it, too often there's a mean-spirited approach that blames the most vulnerable for their plight, selfishness masquerading as liberty that happily misdirects government resources to the wealthy, and polices our bodies and our bedrooms."
Dominic
Cardy, interim leader of the Canadian Future Party, speaks at a news
conference launching the new federal party at the National Press Theatre
in Ottawa on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)
Interim party president Tara McPhail, a former activist with the Conservative Party, joined Cardy at Wednesday's launch. She said the new party is a place for Canadians like her who are "politically homeless."
"[Canadians] don't like the options on the left or the right," McPhail said.
"And we've moved away from ... policy and a tone of moderation and civility. And when I speak with Canadians, they say they'd like to see more of that. So we do think we are helping to fill a vacuum that exists."
Cardy, a former cabinet minister in New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative government and the former leader of the province's New Democratic Party, said the new party is oriented neither to the left nor the right, "but forward."
The Canadian Future Party will put itself to the test right out of the gate by fielding candidates in byelections in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun and Elmwood—Transcona next month.
Mark Khoury is on the ballot in the Quebec race, while the party's candidate for the Manitoba race will be announced in the coming days.
Party platform calls for increase to defence spending
Cardy said the party's ideology is aimed at finding solutions to problems by "looking at facts [and] sharing research and methodology," so Canadians can understand how the party makes its policy decisions.
"For example, that means no time wasted arguing about climate change," Cardy said. "It's real. What matters is how we unleash our creative forces to fix it."
Cardy laid out five policy planks on which he says the new party will be campaigning: reforming government programs, increasing Canada's defence spending to two per cent of its gross domestic product, reforming immigration through "better gatekeepers," making life more affordable by "dismantling protectionism" and increasing competition in the airline, telecommunications and agricultural sectors.
When asked why he thinks Canadians want a party such as his — considering the Conservatives' lead in the polls — Cardy said those same polls show Canadians want an alternative to Justin Trudeau but are "uncomfortable with the extremism and divisiveness" of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
"[Poilievre] is riding in the coattails of the American MAGA movement, and that sort of politics is not Canadian," Cardy said. "Equally, when the Liberals talk about how everything is just fine and 'sunny ways,' they're living in the 1990s."
The Conservatives called the new party a "fringe" operation and said Canadians aren't paying attention.
"If Canadians want to get rid of the disastrous Trudeau government and its punishing carbon tax, which is propped up by Jagmeet Singh and Dominic Cardy's NDP friends, voting for Pierre Poilievre's common sense Conservatives is the only option," said Sebastian Skamski, Poilievre's director of media relations.
The Prime Minister's Office deferred to the Liberal Party of Canada for comment on the launch of the new party.
"Clearly, Conservatives across the country don't feel welcome in Pierre Poilievre's far-right Conservative Party," said Parker Lund, the Liberal Party's communications director.
"While Pierre Poilievre tries to make deep cuts to the programs Canadians rely on, Justin Trudeau and the Liberal team are focused on building more homes, investing in better public health care, lowering the cost of living, and making sure everyone has a fair shot at success."
'They're not awful human beings'
Cardy said he will run in a leadership race when the party holds a convention in November.
Cardy said he couldn't state how many members the party has registered — he noted the party only got approval from Elections Canada last month, which required it to have 250 founding members. He said party support has been growing steadily. He added the party will have a strict vetting system to fend off potential foreign interference.
"We've got folks around our leadership table who have backgrounds in all of the major political parties at different levels, including former MPs," he said.
Asked whether the party has any support from current members of Parliament, Cardy said he's had discussions with a number of them.
"I would guess that a lot of them would be looking to see how we do in the next little while, and I hope we can attract some of them," he said. "Because there are some great MPs, from all parties.
"And wouldn't it be nice if we could actually start saying that again? That they're not terrible. They're not awful human beings. That there are some fantastic people involved in politics."
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New political party registers in New Brunswick ahead of provincial election
The Libertarian Party of New Brunswick has been formally registered by the province’s chief electoral officer
There’s a newly registered political party in New Brunswick.
The Libertarian Party of New Brunswick has been formally registered by the province’s chief electoral officer.
That makes six officially registered parties – joining the Progressive Conservatives, Liberals, Greens, NDP, and People’s Alliance – ahead of the looming provincial election.
The Libertarian party’s federal wing has had some presence in the province in recent years.
It ran a candidate in Fredericton in each of the last two federal elections, with Brandon Kirby most recently finishing sixth in the 2021 runoff with 234 votes.
A few years ago, it also contemplated merging into Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada.
But the party has been without a provincial wing, until now.
“There’s never been a New Brunswick Libertarian party,” new party leader Keith Tays, a 40-year-old construction worker from St. George said in an interview. “We believe that the government should have a minimal role in people’s lives, that includes your business, your property, your body.
“We believe in free markets and we believe that every individual is equal and should be seen as equal under the law.”
Tays said he has no political background, but became a Libertarian after following Texas congressman Ron Paul’s 2008 bid for the Republican party’s nomination for president of the United States.
Paul’s bid garnered grassroots support, particularly through a YouTube channel, specifically for his libertarian views, namely that the proper role of government is to provide national defence, a court system, a criminal justice system, and little else.
“I never really heard anyone talk like him,” Tays said. “That got me involved in small-L libertarianism.”
He said that saw him gravitate to like-minded people from across New Brunswick who found that the government “was way too bloated for what they do.”
That has since resulted in a founding committee of roughly 20 people forming a provincial party, Tays added.
“We get about five or six new members a day,” Tays said, stating roughly 200 people follow the party through its social media channels.
To register a new political party in New Brunswick, you must create what are known as “district associations” in at least 10 electoral districts. It’s largely a paper exercise with no requirements other than declaring that associations are in place to accept donations.
You must also select a leader and then submit a formal application.
“Running 49 candidates is our goal,” Tays said, which would put the new party on every ballot in the province. “Obviously, we can’t campaign hard on all those candidates, but we have support, small support, right across the province.
“Our main goal is to just spread the message of libertarianism.”
As part of the broader Libertarian movement, the party’s provincial website says it’s “dedicated to expanding individual freedom to its furthest limits.”
It states its “core beliefs revolve around significantly reducing the size and intrusiveness of government, cutting and eliminating taxes at every opportunity, and allowing peaceful, honest people to offer their goods and services without inappropriate interference from the government.”
Its platform calls taxation “akin to armed robbery.”
In calling for education reform, the party believes New Brunswick should pay for students to attend private school, if it funds public ones. It is also against sexual education in schools, believing “those are subjects that parents know best how to explain.”
In New Brunswick, the party is then advocating for the replacement of the RCMP with a provincial police force, led by regionally elected police chiefs.
The platform also ”advocates for a referendum on abortion in New Brunswick, while taking no stance, to determine the province’s “community values” separate from Ottawa, while also supporting “more open interpretations” of self-defence, allowing New Brunswickers to defend themselves against criminals.
It maintains that the “only moral purpose of government is the preservation of individual rights.”
Party status in New Brunswick is important, as it guarantees financial backing from provincial coffers.
An annual allowance is paid each fiscal year to every registered political party represented in the legislative assembly, but also those that had 10 candidates or more in the previous election.
How much each party gets is based on a formula that takes into consideration the number of votes the party received in the last election.
For example, the New Democrats – who ran 33 candidates in the 2018 election but did not secure a seat inside the legislature – have been receiving $2,817 annually based on the 6,220 votes they received in the last provincial vote.
The New Brunswick Election Act calls on the province’s chief electoral officer to also cancel the registration of a party if it doesn’t run at least 10 candidates in a general election.
The Keep It Simple Solutions (KISS) Party, formed by former dairy farmer and ambulance volunteer Gerald Bourque, lost party status after the 2020 provincial election after it fielded a slate of just four candidates.
It has yet to re-register, according to Elections NB.
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