Liberals adopt ‘Higgs-Allain’ attack line on new PC leader

All of a sudden Premier Susan Holt and her Liberal MLAs have adopted a new party line. So it's unfortunate that she was part of the Higgs Alain team. A rerun of what plagued the former Higgs Alain government. They're talking about Danielle Alain, the new leader of the PC party. She's on the ground of our Higgs Alain After 46% rent increases under the Higgs Alain government. It's pretty obvious what's going on here. The Liberals want to link the new PC leader to former Premier Blaine Higgs. Alain was part of Higgs' government, and Higgs became very unpopular. The Liberals beat him soundly in 2024, but this attack line lacks a bit of context. PC Alain. In 2023, Alain was one of six PC MLAs who split with Higgs on a gender identity policy for New Brunswick schools. Many PC party members considered that a betrayal, with one of them even planning a new anti-Alain party. That's what split the party in two. That's what made the divide. Higgs himself told the Canadian Taxpayers Federation Alain was part of a plot to get rid of him. I think the bigger issue was they thought, oh well, this won't go down well, this is the thing, we'll get rid of Higgs. For Liberals, the Higgs-Alain feud isn't going to get in the way of a good line. He voted with Higgs hundreds of times, and he voted against Higgs one time. So really, they've served alongside each other. It's the same party. Alain gave the Liberals an opening this week when he would not commit to keeping the rent cap the Liberals put in place two years ago after Higgs' refusal to impose one. It's the same group of people that are sitting across the floor from us. They're people that served under Higgs, alongside Higgs, and alongside Alain. The next election is two years from now. Two years for voters to sort out whether Danielle Alain was too close to Blaine Higgs or not close enough.