Liberals and Progressive Conservative members of the legislature used a Friday committee session to revive each other’s recent controversies over tourism spending.
MLAs use public accounts committee to score political points against each other
Jacques Poitras · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 02, 2026 4:00 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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Hélène Bouchard, New Brunswick’s deputy minister of tourism, shared details about recent controversies with a committee of MLAs. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
Liberals and Progressive Conservative members of the legislature used a Friday committee session to revive each other’s recent controversies over tourism spending.
The PCs zoomed in on cuts announced earlier this year to various tourism sites in the province, while the Liberals questioned the value a pricey trip to Europe by a previous PC tourism minister and her staff.
PC MLA Rob Weir got the department’s deputy minister, Hélène Bouchard, to acknowledge that the cuts announced in the March 2026 budget had not been on the horizon during the 2024-25 budget year — the last year covered by a Tory budget.
“The budget process in 24-25 did not identify anything for 25-26 for divestiture,” Bouchard said during her appearance at the public accounts committee.
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