The Liberals’ return to power in New Brunswick could be attributed to a referendum on Premier Blaine Higgs. But it was also a rejection of a grievance politics that favours anger over substance.
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For the first time in over a century, a New Brunswick government is campaigning to roll back civil rights and protections.
New Brunswick’s proposed Compassion Intervention Act could motivate the Supreme Court of Canada to impose restrictions on the notwithstanding clause.
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is pursuing a hard-right agenda without much scrutiny. He has imposed his agenda on a centrist province with barely any national media attention.
We enter this election with eight signed child-care agreements and question marks over the fate of those deals if the Liberal’s gamble on a majority government fails.
New Brunswick’s language politics have vaulted ahead of its teetering economic crisis to potentially become the central political issue in 2019.
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Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University
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Associate Professor, History and Politics, University of New Brunswick
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Associate Law Professor, University of New Brunswick
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Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University