Higgs’s “platform” proves he has no plan for New Brunswick
October 15, 2024 • News
For Immediate Release
Fredericton (October 15, 2024) – Blaine Higgs’ single-page “platform” proves what we have known all along – he has no plan to invest in healthcare after his mismanagement has left the system in crisis.
“Despite his one page being more expensive than our entire platform, it’s clear that Higgs has no vision and no plan to invest in anything the people of this province have told us they need,” said Liberal Leader Susan Holt. “In the 2020 election, he asked New Brunswickers to trust him and then went back into government and cut the elected health boards, tried to cancel French Immersion, and gave federal money for healthcare to bankers instead of investing it in our broken system. New Brunswickers don’t trust Higgs to fix healthcare and they don’t trust that he has their best interests at heart.”
After 6 years of Blaine Higgs:
- 180,000 New Brunswickers don’t have access to a family doctor
- 80% of nurses in this province are leaving the job by the age of 35
- 550 seniors have been left living in a hospital
At a time when New Brunswickers are looking to their government to stem the bleeding of a healthcare system that has left people waiting in emergency rooms, for surgeries, and for support, Higgs has no solutions, no ideas, and no plan.
“Our team has a plan to start fixing the healthcare system,” Holt said. “Our community care clinics will ensure New Brunswickers have access to care when and where they need it. We’ll give nurses the respect and retention payments they deserve, support seniors with the dignified care they need, and ensure that we can all access essential mental health services.”
Blaine Higgs has no plan and is focused on the wrong priorities. Susan Holt and her team are focused on New Brunswickers.
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