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I'm glad David Coon kept his seat.
Higgs seems to have built his career on taking stuff away from minority groups. And keeping NB safe for Irving. I won't mourn his departure from the legislature.
Same, he and Megan Mitton in Tantramar are excellent MLAs and we sorely need voices other than Lib or PC in the legislature.
I'm sad for Green candidate Kevin Arseneau who lost his seat in Kent North, he was a very dynamic speaker in Fredericton.
I hope the remaining Green caucus pushes hard for electoral reform; the Lib majority tonight was won more off of Higg's failures than by the actual Liberal platform. As always in NB elections, we voted a government out rather than voting one in. I wish that would change, but it won't as long as we have first-past-the-post.
Sadly the Liberals also tend to be pretty friendly with Irving from what I understand. But I'll take anything over the Cons, and Higgs losing his own seat is fucking hilarious. I hope that transphobic piece of shit dies in a fire.
I'm not thrilled by a Liberal majority, but I must admit I prefer the Libs' tendency of inaction to the Cons active destruction when it comes to policies near to my heart, including healthcare, education, linguistic rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and our relationship with First Nations.
I don't dare put any hope in them to move our province forward, but at least they won't be as active in making NB worse as the past Conservative government was.
At the very least there's nothing I could find in their platform that I can disagree with. Let's see if they actually deliver on it all.
He, Moe and Drug Fraud should be repatriated to the nations their ancestors emigrated from.
And Danielle Smith. And Francois Legault.
And while we're at it, hopefully this rot won't take root in BC, either.