New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says he may be willing to call an election rather than back down on changes to the province’s policy gender rules in schools announced on June 8.
For part of that day, eight Progressive Conservative dissidents, including six ministers in Higgs’ 18-member cabinet, sat out on legislative business in protest of the changes. Higgs told reporters the same day that disagreement within his party “potentially could force an election.”
