New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs has stood by his changes to Policy 713, regarding gender identity in schools, despite the turmoil it has stirred up within his Progressive Conservative Party.
He said in a July 22 statement that “a certain group for a few years now” has been planning to unseat him, and their current push to do so is about “party politics” rather than LGBTQ issues. He said a “strategically planned political drama ... is now unfolding.”
