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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October 5, 2024

FREDERICTON - The Green Party of New Brunswick is proud to have confirmed a gender-balanced slate of candidates for the 2024 provincial election. 

“I am proud that we have such a strong team of diverse candidates offering to represent their communities in the Legislative Assembly,” stated Green Party Leader David Coon. “Leadership matters in this election and our candidates are community leaders. I know they will work hard every day to earn the trust of voters in their ridings.”

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October 4, 2024

ROGERSVILLE – This morning Green Party leader David Coon and Deputy Leader Kevin Arseneau announced the Green Party’s plan to reduce the small business tax rate from 2.5 percent to 1 percent, just as it is in Prince Edward Island. It would also raise the income threshold at which the higher corporate tax rate kicks in from $500,000 to $700,000.

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October 3, 2024

FREDERICTON - This morning Green Party leader David Coon committed that a Green government will create a Universal School Food breakfast and lunch program.

“All too often I have heard stories about teachers who have spent their own money to ensure students in their classes don’t go hungry,” said Coon. “While this is commendable, we need a proper province-wide school breakfast and lunch program in place to ensure that teachers can focus on what they do best, teaching, and students can focus on learning.”

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October 2, 2024

SAINT JOHN - This morning in the shadow of the AIM scrapyard in Saint John, Green Party leader David Coon announced that a Green government would create legislation guaranteeing New Brunswickers the right to a healthy environment. In doing so, Coon re-committed to a bill that he tabled in the Legislature in December 2023.

“Over the years we have seen government after government cover up environmental contamination to the  detriment of the health of New Brunswickers,” exclaimed Coon. “The Liberal team went as far as to fire our Chief Medical Officer of Health, Eilish Cleary and broke up her team when she investigated glyphosate and its impacts on the heath of New Brunswickers.”

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October 1st, 2024

FREDERICTON – This morning, on the first Seniors Day of Climate Action in Canada, Green Party Leader David Coon announced his plan to protect New Brunswick communities from the ravages of the rapidly changing climate.

“We are now in a climate emergency, but Liberal government after Conservative  government, after Liberal government, has failed to prepare and protect New Brunswickers and their property from its consequences,” said Coon. “Mr. Higgs has followed in Brian Gallant’s footsteps of being a climate delayer. The plan to make New Brunswick climate ready won’t even be completed until 2026.”

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