New Brunswick·Analysis
The Holt Liberals’ new mining strategy and other initiatives are about things that could happen in the future, not about concrete change now.
Provincial politicians have history of making plans with timelines that last longer than their years in power
Jacques Poitras · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 12, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 25 minutes ago
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Susan Holt and her Liberal government are not the first to issue major long-term strategies. (Tara King-Stewart/CBC)
The Holt Liberals’ new mining strategy is the latest plan from a New Brunswick government hoping that there’s gold on that thar horizon.
This strategy and a host of other initiatives are an effort to push better times into existence — to move “from potential to performance,” as Premier Susan Holt put it.
The various announcements are about things that could happen in the future, not about concrete change now.
“It’s going to be a very, very exciting time,” a forward-looking Natural Resources Minister John Herron said during the launch in Toronto last week. “We’re going to unlock a lot of wealth out of the geological assets that we have in New Brunswick.”
If it feels like aspirational overload,
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