Premier Blaine Higgs is getting vocal support from some members of his cabinet and caucus as he faces a growing push to remove him as leader of New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative party.
The question hung in the air along with the echo of the Clash’s crunchy, iconic punk guitar riff: should he stay or should he go? New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs avoided the big political question on everyone’s minds in his state of the province speech Thursday night.
The second phase of overhauling the province’s election map got underway Wednesday with mayors, community leaders and citizens in northern New Brunswick complaining that their “communities of interest” are being broken up.
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Premier Blaine Higgs has given himself an extension on his self-imposed deadline to decide by this month how to update the province’s Official Languages Act.