Premier Blaine Higgs is suggesting that a controversial European trip by his tourism minister last fall helped convince the president of France to visit New Brunswick.
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New Brunswick’s minister of tourism faced a second day of questions Wednesday about her deputy minister’s expense claims, including more than $19,000 in moving costs.
New Brunswick Tourism Minister Tammy Scott-Wallace has been citing growth in visitors from Britain, France and Germany in 2023 as evidence that departmental activities, such as a trip she and others took to London and Paris last year, pay dividends for taxpayers.
Premier Blaine Higgs has defended his government’s hiring of two well-known Conservative campaign consultants at taxpayer expense as he prepares for an election campaign this fall.