HALIFAX With many municipalities in New Brunswick pushing for a provincial ban on plastic bags since 2019, the province still hasn’t said if it plans to enact a ban ahead of the federal government’s plan at the end of the year. So far, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia have enacted a plastic bag ban. In New Brunswick, some communities have made the jump themselves, including Moncton, Dieppe, and Riverview, which enacted their own plastic bag ban on Oct. 1, 2020. “I know that P.E.I. had done a provincial ban already and we felt that it was really the time to act,” said Moncton Environmental Planning and Management Director Elaine Aucoin.