I don’t know enough about New Brunswick politics to be certain if the cruel and needless anti-trans policies Higgs imported from the Benighted States of America are the reason he’s finished as premier of that beautiful Maritime province and even as MLA for the riding of Quispamsis.
In large part, yes. It even triggered a near-coup in his party last year. The Sask Party also barely eked out a win this week, which is hardly an endorsement of this brand of nonsense.
Then again, it’s Alberta we’re talking about. They’ve always had the most right-wing dirtbags ruining it for the rest of the country.
I’m sorry about my neighbors, things are fucked up here.
The oilsands have warped the economy so much in this province that any political party that doesn’t align with the wants of that industry specifically is seen as the antichrist.
As a result, we also get a lot of the anti-gay, anti-trans rhetoric that comes part and parcel with right wing politics.
