Incoming New Brunswick premier says he will treat taxpayers like customers
FREDERICTON — Blaine Higgs, who will take the oath of office Friday to become the 34th premier of New Brunswick, says his government will act more like a service organization — and treat taxpayers like customers.
The Progressive Conservative leader will lead a minority government as the province faces challenges around language rights, finances and health care.
“I’ve said it in the campaign a lot, for government to be a service organization. For all of us working for government are working for taxpayers and we should be treating taxpayers like customers,” Higgs said Thursday.
The Tories have just a single seat more than the Liberals they ousted and Donald Wright, a political scientist at the University of New Brunswick, said Higgs needs to set a tone of conciliation right from the start.