As New Brunswick’s own version of Game of Thrones plays out to determine who gets to be Premier, the loser of any backroom deal making – no matter which party forms the government – could be the working taxpayer who may get stuck with a carbon dioxide emissions tax they don’t want and certainly didn’t vote for.
New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservatives saw what happened in Ontario when Doug Ford was elected to a huge majority on a popular “scrap the carbon tax” platform. Blaine Higgs quickly jumped on board in opposition to the Liberal’s carbon tax by making it a key campaign issue and telling voters to “Stop the Carbon Tax.” They could only do this, he said, by electing a PC government.
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