Promise History
1.04.001 - Immediately remove the Higgs Gas Tax, saving you around 4 cents a litre at the pumps.
27-Nov-2025
We consider this promise to still be broken. We note that the government’s attempt to lower the price on the December 1st was blocked by the EUB, and that the current price will be kept until February.
New Brunswickers will not get the eight-cent-per-litre cut to gas prices on Monday that the Holt government had promised.
Instead, the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board has issued an interim order siding with industry’s call to cancel it out with an equivalent increase.
That’s being done on an interim basis so that the utilities board can hold a more fulsome review with a final decision now months away.
(…) Work towards a final decision by the board will run to the end of February, with a decision coming in the weeks after that.
Monday’s eight-cent cut to gas prices blocked by EUB
22-Sep-2025
We still consider this promise to be broken. However, we note that Susan Holt has declared that she will remove the “Higgs Gas Tax” by the end of 2025.
After months of delay, New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt says her government is re-committing itself to keeping an election promise to terminate “carbon adjuster charges” consumers pay on gasoline and diesel, with December the new deadline for ending the levy.
“We committed to getting that carbon adjustor off of the backs of New Brunswickers and we are going to meet that commitment this year,” Holt said in an emailed statement to CBC News
14-Dec-2024
We consider this promise to be broken as it was made clear repeatedly by the Holt government that the goal was to remove this tax immediately.
“The government introduced legislation on Nov. 20, signaling its intent to remove the cost (about four cents per litre) by the end of 2024. Instead, the bill’s second reading is now on hold with the legislation being sent to the legislature’s law amendments committee for review”.
13-Dec-2024
Traces of this promise can be found in the mandate letter addressed to the Minister of Finance, René Legacy.
Mandate Letters - René Legacy
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