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The Progressive Conservative government has faced internal revolt in recent months, following changes made to the policy on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says he is not going anywhere, despite dissent earlier this year from within his Progressive Conservative party.

Blaine Higgs’s uncharacteristic tweet attacking the prime minister could be a case of ‘doubling down’ and appealing to a certain base of voters, says a political scientist.

Premier Blaine Higgs is pushing changes to sexual orientation policy in schools that would force children to get parental consent to change their names or pronouns at school. 

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says his party's poor performance in three byelections Monday is a sign of a deepening political divide along linguistic lines in the province.