October 18, 2024

HAMPTON — Today Green Party Leader David Coon outlined how a Green government will make investments and systemic policy changes to overcome the barriers to creating collaborative team-based family practices and clinics around the province.

“Liberal and Conservative governments have been telling us they are committed to transitioning from solo family practices to family practice teams and collaborative care clinics since 2003,” said David Coon. “We’re hearing it again in this election from Higgs and Holt, but just as was the case when their parties were the government, neither are willing to commit the necessary funds to create them. They won’t materialize out of thin air without funding them.”

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October 17, 2024

FREDERICTON — Today Green Party Leader David Coon outlined his plan to ensure people are not priced out their housing by large property tax or rent increases.

“No one should ever be taxed out of their home,” Coon stated, highlighting the urgent need for reform as property assessments continue to soar.

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October 16, 2024

ROGERSVILLE – Today, Deputy Leader Kevin Arseneau shared the Green Party Plan to support farmers and family farms  in New Brunswick.  

“Agriculture is in crisis in New Brunswick,” said Arseneau. “Farmers are living in poverty and their debt is increasing. It takes leadership to fix this crisis. But all the Liberals and Conservatives can think of is supporting the IBMs - the Irvings, Braggs and McCains - leaving family farms behind.”

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October 15, 2024

SAINT JOHN - Today in Saint John, Green Party Deputy Leader Megan Mitton announced the Party’s plan for improving women’s and gender diverse healthcare in New Brunswick. 

“Women’s and gender diverse healthcare services have been ignored by successive governments, with no plan to ensure that women have access to the unique care that they need, when they need it,” stated Mitton. “This goes from family planning to perinatal healthcare, while pregnant and after giving birth, to menopause.”

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October 11, 2024

RIVERVIEW – Today, Green Party leader David Coon, joined by Riverview candidate Sarah Lord, outlined the Green Party’s plan to address the urgent need for improved senior care.

“Our aging population deserves to age with dignity and receive quality care right in their communities,” Coon stated. “As more and more New Brunswickers are forced to live in hospitals waiting for nursing home care, it’s clear that governments have not held up their end of the bargain.”

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October 10, 2024

MONCTON – Green Party Leader David Coon announced the mental health and addictions plank of the Green Party platform today. 

“Our mental health care system is bare bones and failing so many.  We will implement  the Canadian Mental Health Association’s  recommendation to increase the province’s proportion of its health budget to 12 percent to fix this problem.  

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October 9, 2024

FREDERICTON – Today, David Coon, leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick, unveiled the Green Party Election Platform for the 2024 provincial election at a press conference at the party’s campaign headquarters. 

“This platform addresses the most pressing issues facing New Brunswickers today - the crisis in healthcare, housing, the cost of living, and the climate breakdown,” Coon stated. “And it recognizes how all of these issues are interconnected and need to be addressed together.  The Green platform will bring hope to New Brunswickers because it commits to action, to implement concrete practical solutions to the multiple challenges we face as a province, to actually fix the problems that bedevil us,” said Coon.

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October 8, 2024

FREDERICTON – Today, David Coon, leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick, announced a bold plan to tackle climate change that will make life more affordable, while creating new green jobs. Coon said the Green plan will provide affordable alternatives to driving, enable New Brunswickers to harvest free energy from the sun, and cut their power costs.

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October 7, 2024

SACKVILLE – This morning Green Party leader David Coon joined Green Party deputy leader Megan Mitton in Sackville to announce the Green Party’s commitment to restore management authority to local  hospitals.

“We will restore the autonomy that hospitals and health centres lost under the amalgamation of eight regional health authorities into two,” said Coon. “No more decisions handed down from on high by managers who do not work at the hospital.”

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