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.

    • hal9001English
      3·
      1 year ago

      I couldn’t agree more. I’m remaining positive that he won’t win another election, but honestly I would be surprised if he somehow pulls it off.

      • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I fully expect him to win with another majority. Extremists love when other extremists double down when there is widespread opposition and disgust.

        Trumps polling numbers went up once he was indicted. I predict the same effect with Higgs. The violent hateful extremists that live here will come out in force.

        • Evkob@lemmy.caMEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I’d normally agree with you, but I think Higgs has pissed off his own party too much. They’re all power-hungry, and Higgs hasn’t been sharing the power recently from what his cabinet members have to say.

        • hal9001English
          2·
          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).

          • Evkob@lemmy.caMEnglish
            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."