Premier Susan Holt’s government has just rounded the midway point of its mandate and an online tool has been tracking its election promises.
Gabriel Arsenault’s Holt Polimeter tracks 77 campaign pledges
Oliver Pearson · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 23, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago
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Gabriel Arsenault, a political science professor at the Université de Moncton, says his Holt Polimeter team always posts the justifications for its finding, because some may be disputed. (Nicholas Steinbach/Radio-Canada)
Premier Susan Holt’s government has just rounded the midway point of its mandate this week, and one professor has been closely tracking its record on campaign promises.
Gabriel Arsenault, a political science professor at l’Université de Moncton, oversees the Holt Polimeter, which assesses her record on promises.
So far, Arsenault said, the government has broken two promises: balanced budgets each year and immediately eliminating the cost of the carbon adjuster, or “Higgs gas tax.”
Arsenault believes it’s important to track what the government has promised, but it can be hard to keep up with.
“During campaigns, parties make all kinds of promises … when you make a promise,
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