Mitton on possible early election call, climate change hearings, and $1 billion surplus
Memramcook Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton says she’s not sure if Premier Blaine Higgs will call an election this week, and says it’s a “challenging situation”, especially in the Tantramar region where there’s been six elections since 2018.
CHMA spoke with Mitton last week from her office in Sackville:
If Higgs does call an early election this week, residents of Tantramar will be voting in a new riding, after the New Brunswick electoral commission changed boundaries to split Memramcook-Tantramar, returning Memramcook to a Dieppe riding, and leaving Tantramar on its own, as the smallest riding by population in the province. Mitton says she will be running in Tantramar, a perhaps unsurprising decision considering Sackville is her hometown, and where she first took on political office as town councillor.
Last month, Mitton and her Green Party colleague Kevin Arsenault were named deputy leaders of the party. Mitton says she’s honoured to have the title, which means the potential for a “bigger leadership role within the party,” something that might come in handy in an election. “The plan is for me to be able to support other Greens to be able to head to Fredericton,” says Mitton.
Green leader David Coon also told reporters recently that in case of no clear majority after the next election, the New Brunswick Greens would not consider supporting a Higgs government, but would consider doing so with the Liberals under Susan Holt. “The key thing is that we could never support Blaine Higgs’ PCs,” says Mitton.… Continue