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Affordability
Childcare
Liberal's promises
"Reduce the administrative and regulatory burden on childcare operators to enhance their ability to provide the best care possible for children." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Fuel and transportation costs
Liberal's promise
"Immediately remove the Higgs Gas Tax, saving you around 4 cents a litre at the pumps." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Post-secondary
Liberal's promises
Poverty and the minimum wage
Liberal's promises
"Increase the capacity of New Brunswickers receiving social assistance to participate in the workforce without financial penalty or loss of benefits." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Increase social assistance rates given the rising cost of food and housing, while ensuring regulations are not penalizing recipients." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Tax measures and rebates
Liberal's promise
"Immediately remove the provincial sales tax (PST), on electricity providing 10% relief from home energy bills." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Climate Change & the Environment
Air quality
Liberal's promise
"Our government will require that all new schools, hospitals, long-term care homes, and other public buildings have modern air filtration, heating, and cooling systems, following ASHRAE 241. For existing infrastructure, we will add suitable air filtration and cooling units." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Carbon pricing
Liberal's promise
"While we move to a 100 percent non-emitting grid, we will work with the federal government to ensure big emitters bear the brunt of the price on carbon." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Climate adaptation
Liberal's promises
"Review and update our emergency preparedness plan for dealing with the increasing number of extreme climate change-related weather events." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Implement a coastal erosion plan to protect communities." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Conservation
Liberal's promises
Green construction and retrofits
Liberal's promises
Pollution
Liberal's promises
"Implement the recommendations of the Legislative Assembly’s all-party Standing Committee on Climate Change and Environmental Stewardship to increase restrictions on pesticide and herbicide use, including examining the banning of aerial spraying." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Power generation
Liberal's promise
"Deliver an energy plan that provides affordable, reliable, clean energy for New Brunswickers and New Brunswick businesses." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Liberal's promises
Walkable, bikable communities
Liberal's promise
"Work with communities to increase active transportation infrastructure, including walking and cycling trails, to build healthier communities." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Education
French immersion
Liberal's promises
K-12 funding
Liberal's promise
"Develop a fresh 10-year plan with teachers and other education professionals, experts, and parents to set a collective vision for education." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
K-12 learning needs
Liberal's promises
"Ensure schools have adequate staffing, spaces, and resources to provide classroom support in literacy, numeracy, and learning behaviours, which will provide students with more small group or one-on-one practice." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Support inclusive education for all students by reviewing class composition and identifying and filling the staffing, training, and resourcing gaps impacting the effective implementation of Policy 322." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
K-12 staffing
Liberal's promises
Post-secondary
Liberal's promises
School nutrition
Liberal's promise
"Provide nutritious universal free breakfast and pay-what-you-can lunches to all New Brunswick students leveraging local, New Brunswick food where possible." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Trades
Liberal's promise
"Provide grants to New Brunswickers who have studied to work in high-priority fields, including healthcare, the building trades, and education." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Healthcare
Air quality
Liberal's promise
"Our government will require that all new schools, hospitals, long-term care homes, and other public buildings have modern air filtration, heating, and cooling systems, following ASHRAE 241. For existing infrastructure, we will add suitable air filtration and cooling units." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Cancer
Liberal's promise
Drugs and addiction
Liberal's promises
"Invest in treatment beds throughout the province, ensure there is a bed for anyone who wants it when they want it, and ensure that there is an optional continuum of care for those exiting treatment." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Family doctors and primary care
Liberal's promises
"Establish and support at least 30 community care clinics that offer local, collaborative care from a variety of health professionals in one place when you need it." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Provide dedicated non-clinical staff and administrative support to these clinics to ensure healthcare providers are focused on patients, not paperwork." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Improve the compensation model for doctors and primary care providers, including fair pay for those who perform after-hours care." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Health administration
Liberal's promises
"Invest in modern technology, including centralized waitlists and standardized digital records management systems, to facilitate the seamless and secure exchange of patient information among healthcare providers, regions, the regional health authorities, and community care clinics." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Make our public health office independent to ensure unbiased and evidenced-based decision- making and research are communicated to all New Brunswickers." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Health staffing
Liberal's promises
"Create a multi-pronged plan developed for all healthcare professionals to improve working conditions, prioritize support for their wellness, and increase retention." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Leverage existing healthcare knowledge by working with regulators to improve foreign credential recognition for nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals already in our province and looking to call New Brunswick home." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Immediately deliver retention payments to show our respect for nurses and examine other tools that aid retention and recruitment." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Hospitals
Liberal's promise
Indigenous health
Liberal's promises
"Invite First Nations leaders to create a bilateral forum and ongoing process with the goal of achieving culturally safe and equitable healthcare for Indigenous people in New Brunswick." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Work in partnership with First Nations to co-create and implement mental health and addiction programs that meet culturally safe First Nation service and practice standards of care." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Support, collaborate, and engage with First Nations healthcare leaders in achieving their Health Transformation design and implementation process." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Long-term care
Liberal's promises
"Expand the Nursing Homes Without Walls model and ensure that those who want to stay at home can do so for as long as possible." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Establish sector standards and transparent reporting practices with a robust system for complaints that leads to quick responses and better overall delivery to ensure our seniors continue to receive excellent care." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Ensure all existing nursing home beds are accessible by filling staffing gaps by investing in wages for personal support workers and resident attendants ultimately resulting in increased hours of care." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Mental health
Liberal's promises
"Ensure mental health professionals are located in as many community care clinics as possible to ensure mental health is being treated as primary care and reduce the frequency of acute mental health challenges." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Increase residency seats for psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, and develop a retention and training plan for psychologists, counsellors, and other mental health professionals, specifically within schools." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Invest in community-based case management approaches for front-line service providers currently providing mental health support." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Create a Mental Health Advocate position to ensure New Brunswickers struggling with mental health and navigating the system have a champion." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Expand mental health court access to ensure the promotion of alternative pathways for justice." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Natal care
Liberal's promises
Seniors
Liberal's promises
"Implement a caregiver benefit for unpaid and informal caregivers of aging family members, giving caregivers $250 a month to recognize their contribution." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Work with communities to develop and implement a strategy that better supports those living with Alzheimer’s and dementia." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Provide funding for safety and accessibility retrofits for New Brunswick seniors and people with disabilities who wish to stay in their homes." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Sexual and reproductive health
Liberal's promises
"Increase access to fertility treatments by funding one round of IVF, which is in line with jurisdictions across Canada."
"Ensure New Brunswickers can better access abortion services by amending regulation 84–20." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Housing & Homelessness
Affordable housing
Liberal's promise
"Model a Community Housing Retention and Expansion Pilot to fund housing in the non-profit and community sectors that support capacity building pre-construction costs, and acquisition." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Home construction and supply
Liberal's promise
"Work with companies to increase investments in made-in New Brunswick solutions like modular and offsite housing." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Home purchases and ownership
Liberal's promise
Homeless services
Liberal's promises
"Invest in long-term and sustainable core funding for transition homes and frontline domestic violence services, including women’s shelters and additional support services." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Work directly with municipalities and community groups already grounded in a housing-first approach and support their expansion." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Provide wraparound services to those experiencing chronic homelessness, starting with housing, and support a community case management approach." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Public housing
Liberal's promises
Rental housing
Liberal's promises
Jobs, Businesses, & Labour
Arts and culture
Liberal's promises
"Consider arts and culture as important economic and social drivers. Better leverage opportunities to invest in our artists, cultural and creative industries, and institutions to ensure good-paying jobs and a robust creative economy that all New Brunswickers can be proud of." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Infrastructure
Liberal's promise
"Maximize the benefit of infrastructure to New Brunswickers by leveraging an asset management plan for transportation infrastructure to ensure roads and bridges are prioritized for repair or replacement and that contractors are paid on time." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Pay equity
Liberal's promise
Poverty and the minimum wage
Liberal's promises
"Increase the capacity of New Brunswickers receiving social assistance to participate in the workforce without financial penalty or loss of benefits." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Increase social assistance rates given the rising cost of food and housing, while ensuring regulations are not penalizing recipients." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Startups and small businesses
Liberal's promise
"Increase productivity by reviewing and improving investment tax credits like SBITC and scientific research and economic development (SR/ED) credits to ensure investments in research, automation, and technology." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Trades
Liberal's promise
"Provide grants to New Brunswickers who have studied to work in high-priority fields, including healthcare, the building trades, and education." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Society & Government
Budgets
Liberal's promise
"Balance the budget in each year of our mandate." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Government transparency and decision-making
Liberal's promises
"Strengthen the Public Interest Disclosure Act (Whistleblower Act) to ensure anonymity and employment protections for the whistleblower." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Immigration
Liberal's promise
"Focus immigration pathways on critical labour needs like healthcare, building trades and education, and supporting newcomers to make New Brunswick home." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Indigenous reconciliation
Liberal's promises
"Commit to rebuilding relationships with First Nations based on a nation-to-nation relationship that establishes trust and a shared understanding of treaty obligations. We will renegotiate tax agreements to ensure all parties have a fair deal." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Justice system
Liberal's promise
"Expand mental health court access to ensure the promotion of alternative pathways for justice." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Languages
Liberal's promises
Legislature
Liberal's promise
"Ensure our legislative assembly and its practices are modern and fit for purpose including set calendars, remote participation, and modernizing committee work." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Lobbying and political donations
Liberal's promises
"Modernize and strengthen the lobbyist registry to enhance transparency and accountability." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Ban out-of-province political donations to increase trust in our political parties." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Municipal funding and government
Liberal's promise
People with disabilities
Liberal's promises
"Explore a plan for a basic income for New Brunswickers living with disabilities." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Provide funding for safety and accessibility retrofits for New Brunswick seniors and people with disabilities who wish to stay in their homes." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Racism
Liberal's promise
"Immediately review and respond to the Systemic Racism Commissioner’s Final Report, working on a timely plan to implement its recommendations." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Misc. topics
Parks
Liberal's promise
"Provide New Brunswick residents 25% off the cost of provincial park passes to encourage exercise and spending time outdoors." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
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Biography
“There are many reasons I love New Brunswick; this province has so much to offer. But right now, New Brunswickers are facing challenges like never before. It’s never been more clear that our province needs new leadership that listens to you and cares about you; leadership that you can trust.”
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Three Things to Know About Susan
- She is an empathetic leader with experience in both the private and public sectors.
- She is an active volunteer who is deeply passionate about her community.
- She is a dedicated mom to three little girls.
Susan Holt’s Key Values
- Transparency: No more secrets and backroom deals. Time to work in the bright light of day.
- Teamwork: Passionate people committing to bold ideas and bringing New Brunswickers together, not dividing them.
- Empathy: You deserve a government that listens to and cares about what matters to you.
Raised in Fredericton New Brunswick, Susan has both local and global business experience having worked in sales, human resources, and global management roles with large information technology (IT) firms. She also has experience in community leadership, provincial and national advocacy, and social enterprise leadership, as well as experience within government working on social and economic policy. Passionate about community involvement, Susan has been a volunteer and donor with organizations like the NB Lung Association, JEDI, Junior Achievement, Propel ICT, NB Association for Community Living, Fredericton Homeless Shelters, and more. She has degrees in Chemistry and Economics from Queens University.
Susan is perfectly bilingual thanks to New Brunswick’s early immersion program, paired with continued practice and a strong commitment to the French language. She, her husband Jon and their three young children are passionate about New Brunswick’s environment and outdoors as avid hikers, runners, and campers.
Open, transparent, inclusive, and empathetic leadership is the cornerstone of Susan’s vision for the Party. Susan envisions a New Brunswick where everyone has access to the health care they need, where we lead the world in combating climate change, and we lean into digital transformation to provide better services and access to information.
Susan is passionate about people-focused policy that makes our lives better. She believes in empowered communities that are environmentally friendly, age-friendly, inclusive, and vibrant, where everyone has an affordable place to call home; where high-quality education and bold ideas drive a robust economy that allows every New Brunswicker to thrive.
Susan will promote unified and respectful politics in New Brunswick. This includes a pride in New Brunswick’s bilingualism and a deep commitment to true reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. She will work towards a New Brunswick that recognizes that diversity is our strength and that our democracy is stronger when everyone can participate fully.
“There are many reasons I love New Brunswick; this province has so much to offer. But right now, New Brunswickers are facing challenges like never before. It’s never been more clear that our province needs new leadership that listens to you and cares about you; leadership that you can trust.”
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Trois choses à savoir à propos de Susan :
- Elle a beaucoup d’empathie et possède une très vaste expérience du secteur privé ainsi que du secteur public.
- Elle est une bénévole très active qui aime profondément sa communauté.
- Elle est la maman de trois fillettes.
Les valeurs de Susan Holt
- Transparence – Fini les secrets et les arrangements dans les coulisses ! Il est temps de travailler à la lumière de jour.
- Travail d’équipe – Une réelle collaboration de personnes passionnées qui ont des idées audacieuses et qui rassemblent les gens, au lieu de les diviser.
- Empathie – Vous méritez un gouvernement qui vous écoute et qui se soucie des choses qui sont importantes pour vous.
Susan a grandi à Fredericton, au Nouveau-Brunswick. Elle possède une expérience des affaires à la fois locale et mondiale, ayant travaillé dans les domaines des ventes, des ressources humaines et de la gestion globale au sein de grandes entreprises de technologie de l’information (TI). Elle a acquis une solide expérience en matière de leadership communautaire, de défense des intérêts provinciaux et nationaux et de leadership d’entreprise sociale ainsi qu’au sein du gouvernement en matière de politique sociale et économique. Passionnée par l’action communautaire, Susan a été bénévole et donatrice pour des organismes tels que l’Association pulmonaire du Nouveau-Brunswick, JEDI, Junior Achievement, Propel ICT, l’Association du Nouveau-Brunswick pour l’intégration communautaire, les refuges pour sans-abri de Fredericton, etc. Elle est diplômée en chimie et en économie de l’Université Queens.
Susan est parfaitement bilingue grâce au programme d’immersion précoce du Nouveau-Brunswick, à une pratique continue et à un engagement ferme en faveur de la langue française. Elle, son mari Jon et leurs trois jeunes enfants cultivent une passion pour les espaces naturels du Nouveau-Brunswick et sont de fervents randonneurs, coureurs et campeurs.
Un leadership ouvert, transparent, inclusif et empathique est la pierre angulaire de la vision de Susan pour le Parti. Elle veut que le Nouveau-Brunswick soit un endroit où chacun a accès aux soins de santé dont il a besoin, où nous sommes un chef de file mondial dans la lutte contre les changements climatiques et où nous nous appuyons sur la transformation numérique pour offrir de meilleurs services et un meilleur accès à l’information.
Susan est passionnée par les politiques axées sur les gens, les politiques qui améliorent notre vie. Elle croit en des communautés autonomes, respectueuses de l’environnement, adaptées aux personnes âgées, inclusives et dynamiques, où chacun peut se loger à un prix abordable, où une éducation de qualité et des idées audacieuses stimulent une économie robuste qui permet à chaque Néo-Brunswickois et Néo-Brunswickoises de prospérer.
Susan fera la promotion d’une politique unifiée et respectueuse. Cela comprend la fierté du bilinguisme du Nouveau-Brunswick et un engagement profond envers une véritable réconciliation avec les Premières Nations. Elle travaillera pour un Nouveau-Brunswick qui reconnaît que la diversité est notre force et que notre démocratie est plus forte lorsque tout le monde peut participer pleinement.
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