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There’s now a second declared candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick.
Rival to Daniel Allain differentiates himself from former premier Blaine Higgs’s approach on key issues
Jacques Poitras · CBC News
· Posted: Feb 08, 2026 5:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 27 minutes ago
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Progressive Conservative MLA Don Monahan launched his campaign for party leadership on Saturday. (Tara King-Stewart/CBC)
There’s now a second declared candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick.
Arcadia-Butternut Valley-Maple Hills MLA Don Monahan officially launched his campaign in Fredericton on Saturday.
In an interview with CBC News, Monahan differentiated himself from both former premier Blaine Higgs and leadership rival Daniel Allain.
The first-term MLA said he considered some of the contentious moves by the Higgs government — such as a plan to replace French immersion and a stricter Policy 713 on students choosing their own pronouns in school — to have been settled in the last election.
“I think that voters have made their decision in the last general election of 2024 on Policy 713 and the way things need to be handled,” he said.
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