New Brunswick Liberal Association
Association libérale du Nouveau-Brunswick
New Brunswick's centrist provincial party. Founded 1867, one of the oldest active provincial parties in Canada. Has formed government many times since Confederation, alternating mainly with the PC Party. Most recent government (before 2024): Brian Gallant 2014-2018 minority. Susan Holt won a majority on October 21, 2024, defeating Blaine Higgs's PCs and becoming the first woman Premier of New Brunswick. The Holt government's first substantive legislation was Bill 2 repealing the provincial carbon tax (aligning with the spring 2025 Carney-government federal consumer-carbon-tax removal). Bill 50 signs the province on to the federal pharmacare bilateral (first Atlantic province to do so). Bill 28 (Official Languages of New Brunswick Modernization Act) updates the only officially bilingual provincial language regime in Canada.
Leader
Susan Holt
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Positions on Issues
Cost of Living
The New Brunswick Liberals under Premier Susan Holt (elected October 21, 2024) committed during the 2024 campaign to an expanded provincial HST rebate for low-income households, continuation of the federal-provincial $10-a-day child-care bilateral past 2026, freezing NB Power residential electricity-rate increases at the rate of inflation, and a five-year extension of the gas-tax cap protecting drivers from price spikes.
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The Susan Holt government's signature healthcare commitments include reopening the emergency rooms shuttered or operated on reduced hours under the Higgs PC government, recruiting 100 additional family doctors over four years through bursaries and rural-practice incentives, expanding the New Brunswick Extra-Mural Program for home care, and rejecting any further expansion of for-profit private clinics taking provincially funded surgeries.
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