Climate change is largely forgotten in the electoral campaign in New Brunswick, deplores a political scientist from the University of New Brunswick.
Donald Wright, who also contributes to the multimedia Yale Climate Connections, says the province should expect much hotter summers that could harm people’s health and storms that could cause flooding.
According to him, New Brunswick must adapt its infrastructure, its health system and its emergency interventions to this new reality.
He regrets that the issue of global warming has been addressed too little since the start of the electoral campaign. During the recent debate of the leaders of the three main parties, no questions were asked on this subject.
The pr Wright says politicians avoid talking about climate change, despite the economic, health and environmental dangers it poses, for fear of alienating voters.
The leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, Blaine Higgs, defends himself by saying that his plan to combat climate change is included in the government’s energy strategy published in December. This program aims to allow the province to achieve carbon neutrality within 12 years.
The Liberals want to review and update the emergency measures plan to deal with the increase in extreme weather events linked to climate change. They also plan to implement a plan to combat coastal erosion to protect communities.
The Green Party has pledged, among other things, to create a fund to help municipalities implement adaptation measures and to found an agency to oversee efforts to protect communities and infrastructure along New Zealand’s vast coastline. Brunswick.
Progressive Conservatives present their platform
The New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party revealed its entire platform to voters on Saturday evening ahead of polling day, October 21.
The platform includes pre-announced commitments to reduce the HST by 2%, provide financial education in schools and introduce legislation to force people with serious drug addictions into treatment.
The platform is also committed to improving the working conditions of nurses in the province and to assuming 50% of the cost of long-term disability premiums for registered nurses for two years.
If his party is elected to power, Mr Higgs will serve a third term as prime minister.
The Conservative platform is the last of the three main parties to be revealed during the campaign, with that of the Green Party having been unveiled on Wednesday and that of the Liberal Party on October 3.
The Canadian Press
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