New Brunswick·Analysis
It didn’t take long for Premier Susan Holt’s Liberals to find their rhetorical footing against new Progressive Conservative Leader Daniel Allain.
Premier, ministers, MLAs inject ‘Higgs-Allain government’ into their rhetoric, minus the context
Jacques Poitras · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 26, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 27 minutes ago
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Barely a week after the Progressive Conservatives picked Daniel Allain as their new leader, several Liberal ministers and MLAs are trying to tie him to former premier Blaine Higgs. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
It didn’t take long for Premier Susan Holt’s Liberals to find their rhetorical footing against new Progressive Conservative Leader Daniel Allain.
The previous PC administration is no longer known as “the Higgs government.”
Now it’s “the Higgs-Allain government” — a reminder that Allain served as minister of local government under premier Blaine Higgs from 2020 to 2023.
Justice Minister Rob McKee dropped the line into a French-language radio interview on Thursday morning during an interview about legislation creating a mental health advocate.
Later that day, Housing Minister David Hickey slipped it into a media scrum focused on housing after the PC opposition’s official response to the government throne speech.
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