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N.B. premier announces changes to cabinet after two ministers announce plans to leave
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs(opens in a new tab) revealed changes to his cabinet Friday morning after two ministers announced they are leaving.
Mike Holland(opens in a new tab), New Brunswick’s minister of natural resources and energy development, said in a statement earlier in the morning he will not run again in the next provincial election.
Holland said it was a difficult decision and he is “proud of the achievements made under Premier Higgs” and the Progressive Conservative Party(opens in a new tab).
“I know with certainty that this work leaves my constituency and our province in better shape than when I was first elected,” he said the statement.
Holland said he will continue to serve both in cabinet and as MLA for the electoral district of Albert until after the next election.
In an email statement, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Arlene Dunn(opens in a new tab) said she is immediately stepping away from cabinet and resigning from her seat as MLA for Saint John Harbour.
“After much consideration and discussion with my family, I have decided not to reoffer in the upcoming 2024 provincial election,” said Dunn.
“Serving the people of New Brunswick and representing the wonderful people in my riding of Saint John Harbour has been a true privilege and honour of a lifetime.”
Dunn has served as minister of several portfolios, including post secondary education training and labour, immigration, opportunities New Brunswick, economic development and small business.
“I hate to see them both go obviously, to be very frank, but everyone has to make a personal choice,” said Higgs.
Cabinet changes
As of Friday, Holland will serve as minister of Aboriginal affairs in addition to serving as natural resources and energy development minster.
Additionally, Higgs says Greg Turner will serve as minister of post-secondary education, training and labour as well as the minister responsible for immigration.
Turner will still serve as minister responsible for Opportunities New Brunswick and minister responsible for economic development and small business.
“These ministers will begin acting in their new role immediately. Their additional responsibilities will be formalized next week,” Higgs said during a Friday news conference.
“I want to thank ministers Holland and Turner for taking on these added responsibilities in service to the people of this province.”
Sherry Wilson seeks nomination
Cabinet minister and Moncton Southwest MLA Sherry Wilson said in a Friday afternoon statement she will seek the Progressive Conservative nomination in the new Albert-Riverview riding.
“The Honourable Mike Holland has served the people of this area with pride and distinction. I’m proud to add my voice to those who are thanking Mike and wishing him the very best with the future,” she said.
Spring election?
It’s the second major cabinet change for the premier since last summer when ministers stepped down over leadership concerns.
Given this is an election year, the moves over the last day came as a surprise for political professor J.P. Lewis.
“At the federal level we see, not necessarily ministers heading for the doors, but we see back bench MPs saying they aren’t going to reoffer. It speaks to something when this is going on when an election is coming up and they have a good chance of holding onto power,” said Lewis.
As of now, the premier says he has no plans of a spring election.
“Could it come early? Yes it could, but right now we are focused on the initiatives pointed out in the state of the province, not focused on an early election,” said Higgs.
Top Saint John minister quitting Higgs cabinet, legislature seat
Arlene Dunn’s announcement comes hours after minister Mike Holland said he won't run again
A top minister in Premier Blaine Higgs's government says she is resigning from cabinet immediately and will also quit as a member of the legislature "in the near term."
Arlene Dunn says she made the decision "after much consideration and discussion with my family" but did not provide any reasons in a statement released Friday morning.
She said she made the decision "with mixed emotions. … Serving the people of New Brunswick and representing the wonderful people in my riding of Saint John Harbour has been a true privilege and honour of a lifetime."
Dunn told CBC News she would not be granting interviews about her resignation.
Arlene
Dunn can be seen here arriving at government house for a cabinet
shuffle where she took on the post-secondary education, training and
labour portfolio. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
"Different people look at the political life and it certainly doesn't work for many," Higgs told reporters Friday morning.
"Politics turned out to not be for her."
The premier is not required to call a byelection to fill a vacant seat in the 12 months before a scheduled general election.
Dunn's riding is considered a key battleground in the provincial election scheduled for this fall.
The Liberals have nominated Saint John city councillor David Hickey to run there while the Greens have chosen Mariah Darling, an activist and education co-ordinator with a local LGBTQ organization.
They both said Friday that Dunn's departure was another sign of the Progressive Conservative Party veering further to the right.
"This is another example of more progressive members — whether it be cabinet, or progressive elements of the party — starting to erode and change," Hickey said.
Darling said Dunn's resignation "shows some cracks in the Conservative party right now" and called it "a real sign that people in Saint John Harbour need new leadership and don't need to look to a party that can't keep their own members currently."
Liberal
candidate and Saint John city councillor David Hickey said Friday's
announcements were another example of more progressive moments 'starting
to erode and change.' (Submitted by David Hickey)
Dunn was seen as a star candidate when she was elected in 2020 and was handed several cabinet responsibilities including economic development, immigration and Indigenous affairs.
She took on post-secondary education, training and labour in June 2023 after Higgs shuffled his cabinet in the wake of a revolt over his changes to the education department's Policy 713 on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Dunn opposed the changes but was not in the legislature the day six other Progressive Conservative MLAs voted against the government on the issue.
"I didn't think we should have touched that. I think we should have stayed away from it," she said of Policy 713 the day of the shuffle, but beyond that, "I do have confidence in the leadership of the premier."
Green
candidate and education co-ordinator Mariah Darling said Dunn's
resignation 'shows some cracks in the Conservative party right now.' (Graham Thompson/CBC News )
Higgs said at the time the fact she was not there for the vote was why he kept her as a minister after dumping two of the others who broke ranks.
He told reporters Friday that he expected his internal critics to put Dunn's departure "in a negative light" but said, "I don't think that we should read anything more or less into the fact that it's an opportunity for others to get involved in politics."
Dunn's announcement came just hours after Natural Resources and Energy Development Minister Mike Holland announced he'll be leaving politics when the provincial election is called this year.
John Williston, a regional vice-president of the PC party who supported a push to remove Higgs as leader last year, said the two departures are a sign of "poor management and poor leadership in the PC party" that rests with Higgs.
Energy
Minister Mike Holland says he'll be bowing out of politics this coming
election. In the meantime, he'll absorb Dunn's Indigenous Affairs
portfolio. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
"It just begs the question that we've been asking for months: why do people keep leaving? Why are our best and brightest people in our party either sitting on the backbenches or making a break for the door?" Williston said.
He said there was no mechanism to remove Higgs at this point, but said he hoped the premier might still step down before the election.
"This is just further evidence of the fact that people are obviously choosing to explore other options … and the common denominator I think is that people find it impossible to work with the premier."
Holland, however, said he was leaving because he's accomplished everything that was on his to-do list when he became minister in 2018 and it's time to pass the baton.
John
Williston, a regional vice-president of the PC party who supported a
push to remove Higgs as leader last year, said the two departures are a
sign of 'poor management and poor leadership in the PC party' that rests
with Higgs. (Submitted by John Williston)
He added that his decision was "not whatsoever" influenced by divisions in the PC caucus and cabinet over Premier Blaine Higgs's handling of Policy 713.
Holland said he wouldn't have been able to accomplish initiatives such as the doubling of protected areas on Crown lands without Higgs's support.
"I know that as I walked through the work that I did, I had the support that I needed. There were times that Blaine Higgs and I might not have agreed on something, but we found mutually agreeable paths where we could continue to make progress."
Elected politics "is meant to be, you come in, you do your work and you pass it on," Holland said.
"When I looked at the work that I've done, I feel like it's a comprehensive body of work we can stand on … and I feel I can sit back and say 'job well done' and then move on."
Economic
Development Minister Greg Turner will take on Dunn’s responsibilities
for post-secondary education, labour, training and immigration. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
The Progressive Conservative party has scheduled a candidate nominating meeting in the Albert-Riverview riding for Feb. 14. The riding on the new electoral map is a redrawn version of Holland's current Albert riding.
Holland, first elected in 2018 and re-elected in 2020, said his decision was also driven by the fact that his partner lives in Nova Scotia.
"It's been challenging to be able to make sure that we invest in each other to the degree that we need to," he said.
Economic Development Minister Greg Turner will take on Dunn's responsibilities for post-secondary education, labour, training and immigration, while Holland will absorb her Indigenous Affairs portfolio.
Higgs is facing the loss of other ministers when he calls the election this year.
Environment Minister Gary Crossman said in October he will retire when Higgs calls the election, and Health Minister Bruce Fitch also hinted last fall that he will not run again.
"There'll be an announcement on that in the not-too-distant future," he said this week.
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I do wish the federal Liberals luck in their next election but to be clear
I am running as a Liberal in the New Brunswick provincial election. I would
define myself as someone who is centre-right - I am not a Trudeau Liberal I
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If you see this story build in the news media feel free to continue to
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NB Liberals announce 21 candidates ready to run in the next election
February 2, 2024
FREDERICTON (February 2nd) – Today, the New Brunswick Liberals
announced that there are currently 21 nominated candidates ready to
run in the 2024 election. Six recently nominated candidates join the
15 incumbent MLAs to form the Liberal team ready to bring their vision
to New Brunswickers. Susan Holt, Leader of the New Brunswick Liberal
Party will host her nomination in Fredericton South-Silverwood in the
coming months.
“We are feeling the momentum,” says Holt. “This incredible group of
New Brunswickers spent their lives working to make our province even
better and I’m honoured to have them next to me as we head into an
election. It really feels like New Brunswickers are ready for change.
They are ready for a government that brings them hope, one they can
trust to have their backs.”
The incumbent candidates, appointed last Fall when Premier Higgs was
threatening to call an election, are all sitting Members of the
Legislature who have been proudly serving their communities across the
province for several years. The party has also nominated six new
candidates – David Hickey, Patty Borthwick, Dave Gouthro, Claire
Johnson, Luke Randall, and Tanya Whitney – who will also be working
hard to earn the trust of the people in their ridings when New
Brunswickers head to the polls.
“The support and excitement we’re feeling as we nominate candidates
across the province is incredible,” says NB Liberal Association
Executive Director Hannah Fulton Johnston. “We’re seeing great crowds
at our events, bringing in lots of donations, members are engaged, and
we are hearing from New Brunswickers everyday that they are ready for
new leadership.”
The NB Liberal Association will continue to hold nominating
conventions to add more candidates to the team over the coming months.
See the attached Appendix for a full list of current candidates.
A complete list of Liberal candidates nominated for the 2024 election
as of February 1, 2024.
Benoît Bourque, Beausoleil-Grand Bouctouche-Kent
Chuck Chiasson, Grand Falls-Vallée-des-Rivières-
Claire Johnson, Moncton South
Dave Gauthro, Albert-Riverview
David Hickey, Saint John Harbour
Éric Mallet, Shippagan-Les-Iles
Francine Landry, Madawaska Les Lacs-Edmundston
Gilles LePage, Restigouche West
Guy Arsenault, Restigouche East
Isabelle Thériault, Caraquet
Jacques LeBlanc, Shediac-Cap-Acadie
Jean-Claude D’Amours, Edmundston-Vallée-des-Rivières
Keith Chiasson, Tracadie
Luke Randall, Fredericton North
Marco LeBlanc, Belle-Baie-Belledune
Patty Borthwick, Fundy-The Isles-Saint John Lorneville
René Legacy, Bathurst
Richard Losier, Dieppe-Memramcook
Rob McKee, Moncton Centre
Robert Gauvin, Shediac Bay-Dieppe
Tanya Whitney, Fredericton York
The following four nominations to take place in the coming weeks:
February 20 – Saint John East
February 22 – Moncton East
February 28 – Carleton York
March 23 – Miramichi Bay-Neguac
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