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Noah Fry, PhD Candidate, Political Science, McMaster University

Move over, Danielle Smith: What Canadians should know about New Brunswick's Blaine Higgs

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs speaks to the media outside Government House in Fredericton, N.B., following a cabinet shuffle in June 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Stephen MacGillivray

Though he lacks Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s showmanship, New Brunswick’s Blaine Higgs has a hard-line conservative record to make right-wing ideologues giddy.

Unlike some of its previous initiatives, the New Brunswick government’s Policy 713 — an education directive on sexual orientation and gender identity — has put Higgs on the national radar.

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