The turmoil within New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative Party was deepening Friday morning as another minister quit Premier Blaine Higgs’s cabinet and four former top party officials demanded the premier resign.

Portland-Simonds MLA Trevor Holder, the longest-serving MLA in the legislature, announced in an open letter he was quitting as minister of post-secondary education, training and labour.

“Under the leadership of Premier Higgs, caucus has been less about consensus and more about him getting his own way,” Holder wrote.

Oof, Holder is a very long-time MLA. This one’s gotta hurt.

  • hal9001@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Ugh, I hate to say it but you’re right. It really sucks. I’m interested to see what Holt ends up doing. I don’t believe that she can actually break out of the liberal (and conservative) old boys club. lol even if the only thing that happens is proportional representation I’d be happy (but no one that could actually win a majority would ever go for it).

    • EvkobMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Libs and Cons know that first-past-the-post is too advantageous for them, so they’ll never change the system, and until we change the system it’ll always be the Cons or Libs in power.

      Remember when Justin Trudeau promised that the 2015 federal election would be the last one under FPTP? And then immediately backtracked on that when he won, saying “well since we’re in power, Canadians are now happy with their government, so clearly the system works!”

      Here’s a French source for that, and the translated quote:

      “Under Mr. Harper, there were so many people who were unhappy with the government and its approach that people were saying 'we need electoral reform in order to not have any more governments we don’t like”. However, under the current system, they now have a government with which they are more satisfied. And the motivation to change the electoral system is less striking, or less loud."