{"id":134069,"date":"2022-12-29T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=134069"},"modified":"2022-12-28T11:07:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T16:07:42","slug":"mla-mitton-reflects-on-a-turbulent-year-in-provincial-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/mla-mitton-reflects-on-a-turbulent-year-in-provincial-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"MLA Mitton reflects on a \u2018turbulent year\u2019 in provincial politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was no shortage of drama in New Brunswick provincial politics this year, with lots of local ramifications.<\/p>\n

Major events included the resignation of then-Minister of Education Dominic Cardy, whose\u00a0explosive open letter<\/a>\u00a0in October shone an unflattering light on Premier Blaine Higgs.<\/p>\n

Health care policy was also a big source of controversy. During the summer, the death of a patient in an ER waiting room prompted Higgs to fire the CEO of the Horizon Health Network and to dissolve the boards of both health authorities, replacing them with trustees.<\/p>\n

The political scene was also marked by intense debates over issues such as affordable housing, labour relations, inflation, systemic racism and more.<\/p>\n

Memramcook-Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton spoke to CHMA on Wednesday, December 21, to share her thoughts on the issues that shaped New Brunswick this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was no shortage of drama in New Brunswick provincial politics this year, with lots of local ramifications. Major events included the resignation of then-Minister of Education Dominic Cardy, whose\u00a0explosive open letter\u00a0in October shone an unflattering light on Premier Blaine Higgs. Health care policy was also a big source of controversy. During the summer, the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":92608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225],"tags":[4273,824,823,5774],"radio":[126,227],"origine":[120,105,106,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134074,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134069\/revisions\/134074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134069"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=134069"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=134069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}