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Zara MacKay-Boyce

Green candidate for Rothesay

A collaborative, community care approach that prioritizes people thriving within their community.

Candidate Platform - Rothesay - 29

Affordability - Accessibility - Accountability

Accessibility and Local Services

Rothesay Residents have the right to live and thrive within the borders of our municipality. My goals include restoring and improving local services that have been cut, such as mental health services.
Developing a public transit or rideshare system so that services are accessible and affordable.
Continuing to develop 3rd spaces for community improvement, and marginalized communities, such as the KV Public library or KV Oasis, and creating new spaces such as a newcomers centre.
Support for small businesses to allow services to remain in Rothesay.
End systemic issues relating to education and healthcare by starting at the top - creating scholarships for low-income students and international students to receive post-secondary education in healthcare and education.

Affordability

Permanent rent cap, reforming the property tax system, support for retrofits and solar electricity.
Looking at creation and maintenance of community housing, as well as support for upgrading existing structures for more new home owners to enter the market.
Creation of communities for senior citizens that include healthcare, gardens, and a tiered care and support system.

Healthy Environment and Environmental protections

Legislation to provide all New Brunswickers with the right to a healthy environment.
Protections and access to outdoor spaces, especially for children, including the Kennebecasis River and other integral waterways.

Addressing Systemic Inequalities

Reinstate the original policy 713, that includes protections in the best interest of the children.
Call for a review of outdated education and information that may be harmful, and work on revamping curriculum.
Working with newcomers to address racial inequality in areas like employment, education, renting and purchasing homes.
Support for new Canadians - including developing community and 3rd spaces.

A right to Healthcare for all

Create incentives for health care practitioners to live and work in Rothesay, including learning grants to train new medical professionals, wage increases, and improved facilities.
Mental health education, care and support increases.

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Affordability

Childcare

Green's promises

Create 3,400 new childcare spaces in both urban and rural areas, with fair and equitable funding for Francophone centres

"With the support of federal funding, create 3,400 new child care spaces in both urban and rural areas while ensuring fair and equitable funding for Francophone centres." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Provide interest-free loans to cooperative and non-profit childcare facilities to assist with start-up costs

Increase wages and benefits and achieve pay equity for Early Childcare Educators

"Improve recruitment and retention of early childcare educators by increasing wages and benefits and achieve pay equity." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Create support services for childcare centres to meet the needs of neurodivergent children

Fuel and transportation costs

Green's promise

Remove the roughly 4 cent/litre levy on gas remitted to refiners

"End the Higgs gas tax that forces consumers to pay what the big polluters in NB should be paying." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Post-secondary

Green's promises

Increase stable, multi-year funding for public universities and community colleges to reduce tuition fees

"Increase funding for public universities and community colleges through stable, multi-year financing to reduce tuition fees." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Raise the family income threshold for the Tuition Bursary to $100,000

"Raise the family income threshold for the Tuition Bursary to $100,000 with a long-term goal of achieving free tuition." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Create a debt relieve programme to forgive outstanding provincial student loan debt at a rate of up to 20%/year for up to five years

"Create a New Brunswick Debt Relief Program to forgive outstanding provincial student loan debt at a rate of up to 20% per year for up to five years." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Eliminate credit checks associated with the student loan and bursary application process

Poverty and the minimum wage

Green's promises

Create a Guaranteed Livable Income programme to eliminate deep poverty

"Develop and implement a Guaranteed Liveable Income program in collaboration with the federal government to eliminate deep poverty." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Immediately raise social assistance rates of all categories and adjust accordingly every year until a Guaranteed Livable Income is in place

"Immediately raise social assistance rates of all categories and adjust them accordingly every following year until a Guaranteed Livable Income is in place." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Raise the minimum wage to $20/hour no later than 2028 and reduce taxes on small and medium businesses to aid the transition

Public transit

Green's promises

Expand city transit and public transportation, including commuter rail and bus routes

"Support the expansion of city transit and public transportation, including commuter rail and bus routes, to reduce energy consumption and transportation costs." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Expand bus service between and within regions

Contribute to operational and marketing costs of city transit services

"Support the expansion of bus service between and within regions and contribute to operational and marketing costs of city transit services to enhance convenience, accessibility, and reduce carbon emissions." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Climate Change & the Environment

Air quality

Green's promises

Create an Indoor Air Quality Act for provincially-funded buildings

"Protect students, long-term care residents and patients at hospitals by creating an Indoor Air Quality Act for provincially funded buildings." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Ensure homeowners with an annual combined gross household income under $100K are eligible for funding for radon gas remediation

"Develop a province-wide radon testing action plan, ensuring that homeowners with an annual combined gross household income under $100,000 are eligible for funding for radon gas remediation." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Carbon pricing

Green's promise

Replace the consumer carbon price with a cap and trade pricing system

"Replace the consumer carbon tax with a cap and trade pricing system that will shift the carbon tax burden to the biggest polluters, to ensure they pay their fair share." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Climate adaptation

Green's promises

Create a fund to make infrastructure investments to safeguard communities from flooding, coastal erosion, and violent weather

"Create a Climate Change Risk Reduction Fund to make the infrastructure investments required to safeguard vulnerable communities from flooding, coastal erosion, and violent weather." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Create a Coastal Protection Authority to coordinate efforts to protect communities and infrastructure

"Establish a Coastal Protection Authority to coordinate efforts to protect communities and infrastructure along New Brunswick’s 2,250 km of coastline." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Improve cell phone and internet coverage across the province to ensure timely, life-saving info is accessible

"Improve cell phone and internet coverage across New Brunswick to ensure timely, life-saving information is accessible during floods, fires, and severe weather." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Work with affected communities, Nova Scotia, and the federal government to address storm surges and flooding within the Chignecto Isthmus

"Work with affected communities, Nova Scotia, and the federal government to ensure the potential negative impacts from storm surges and flooding within the Chignecto Isthmus are addressed, and work is appropriately funded to safeguard the communities, their economies, and the essential Canadian transportation link." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Conservation

Green's promises

Permanently protect 30% of the province by 2030

"Develop an action plan with conservation groups, local governments and First Nations to ensure that at least 30% of the province is permanently protected by 2030." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Negotiate a new framework for Crown lands management with First Nations

"Negotiate a new framework for Crown lands management with First Nations, recognizing that the use of this land is governed by the Peace and Friendship Treaties, and it has never been ceded or surrendered." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Allocate access to Crown land adjacent to communities for economic and social purposes

"Enable community-based management of Crown land, in partnership with First Nations, by allocating access to Crown land to adjacent communities for economic and social purposes." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

End the forest spraying of herbicides, like glyphosate

End large-scale clearcutting on Crown Land

Restore private woodlots as the primary source of wood supply to mills

Diversify the production of wood products from tree species expected to thrive in a rapidly warming climate

"Implement a strategy to diversify the production of wood products from tree species expected to thrive in a rapidly warming climate." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Green construction and retrofits

Green's promises

Provide zero-interest financing to retrofit homes and small rental properties & businesses to reduce energy & heating costs, & install solar

"Provide zero-interest financing to retrofit homes, small rental properties, and small businesses to reduce energy consumption, cut heating costs, and install solar power." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Increase the number of households eligible for free energy retrofits and heat pumps by raising the income threshold to $100K

"Raise the household income threshold for the Enhanced Energy Savings Program from $70,000 to $100,000 to increase the number of households eligible for free energy retrofits and heat pumps."

Inter-city transportation

Green's promises

Create a Provincial Rapid Rail Network using existing rail infrastructure to connect cities and regions to each other and other provinces

"Establish a Provincial Rapid Rail Network utilizing existing rail infrastructure to connect cities and regions within New Brunswick and neighbouring provinces." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Expand bus service between and within regions

Oil and gas industry

Green's promise

Ban the exploration and extraction of more fossil fuels, such as shale gas

Pollution

Green's promise

Guarantee the right to a healthy environment, including clean air, water, soil, biodiversity; and preventing pollution and climate hazards

"Adopt legislation to guarantee New Brunswickers have the right to a healthy environment, covering all aspects of environmental protection, including clean air, water, soil, biodiversity, and the prevention of pollution and climate- related hazards." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Power generation

Green's promises

Move to 80% renewable energy by 2035

"Transform our electricity system to be 80% powered by renewable energy, supported by energy storage systems and a Smart Grid, by 2035." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Cancel power subsidies to pulp mills and use the savings to provide monthly rebates on power bills to low-income people

"Cancel the power subsidies to pulp mills and use the savings to provide low-income individuals and families with monthly rebates on their power bills to offset electricity rate increases." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Allow municipalities and First Nation communities to power their operations from NB Power's distribution lines

"Enable municipalities and First Nation communities to power their operations with renewable energy by allowing them to use NB Power’s distribution lines." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Allow home and property owners to access community-based and rooftop solar power

"Eliminate the red tape that prevents home and property owners from readily accessing community-based and rooftop solar power." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Allocate the best wind energy sites in New Brunswick to public power developments

"Allocate the best wind energy sites in New Brunswick to public power developments that replace fossil fuel generation, ensuring that private companies do not monopolize these locations for hydrogen production." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Public transit

Green's promises

Expand city transit and public transportation, including commuter rail and bus routes

Expand bus service between and within regions

Contribute to operational and marketing costs of city transit services

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Green's promise

Expand the electric school bus fleet and provide at-home chargers for rural bus drivers

"Expand the electric school bus fleet and provide at-home chargers for rural bus drivers, like PEI has done." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Walkable, bikable communities

Green's promise

Fund infrastructure to link pedestrian and cycling routes and trails across highways and watercourses and across communities

"Allocate funds for infrastructure to link active transportation routes and trails across highways and watercourses and across communities." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Education

K-12 learning needs

Green's promises

Ensure Policy 322 on inclusive education has adequate resources to be implemented effectively

Require school districts to track rates of absenteeism

"Require school districts to track rates of absenteeism in order to identify the schools in which problems exist so the problem can be addressed." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

K-12 staffing

Green's promise

Work with unions to implement a retention and recruitment strategy for school staff

"Collaborate with unions to implement a retention and recruitment strategy for school staff, encompassing teachers, school bus drivers, custodians, education assistants, and mechanics, among others." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

LGBTQ students

Green's promise

Revise Policy 713 on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity to incorporate changes recommended by the Child and Youth Advocate

Post-secondary

Green's promises

Increase stable, multi-year funding for public universities and community colleges to reduce tuition fees

"Increase funding for public universities and community colleges through stable, multi-year financing to reduce tuition fees." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Raise the family income threshold for the Tuition Bursary to $100,000

"Raise the family income threshold for the Tuition Bursary to $100,000 with a long-term goal of achieving free tuition." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Create a debt relieve programme to forgive outstanding provincial student loan debt at a rate of up to 20%/year for up to five years

"Create a New Brunswick Debt Relief Program to forgive outstanding provincial student loan debt at a rate of up to 20% per year for up to five years." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Eliminate credit checks associated with the student loan and bursary application process

School communities

Green's promises

Implement a community school policy to strengthen connections between schools and their communities

Strengthen district education councils and reduce the size of school districts

"Decentralize decision making in education by strengthening district education councils and reducing the size of school districts." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

"Ensure that Regional Health Authority boards and District Education Councils are accountable to the public through elected members." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

School curriculum

Green's promise

Incorporate a comprehensive media literacy programme into the school curriculum

"Incorporate a comprehensive media literacy program into the school curriculum to develop skills in accessing, understanding, analyzing, and evaluating information." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

School nutrition

Green's promise

Create a universal school breakfast and lunch programme, locally designed to suit community needs

Student mental health

Green's promise

Embed support teams in schools to help teachers and guidance counsellors address mental health and behavioural issues

"Support teachers and guidance counsellors in addressing mental health and behavioural issues by embedding support teams in schools." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Healthcare

Air quality

Green's promises

Create an Indoor Air Quality Act for provincially-funded buildings

"Protect students, long-term care residents and patients at hospitals by creating an Indoor Air Quality Act for provincially funded buildings." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Ensure homeowners with an annual combined gross household income under $100K are eligible for funding for radon gas remediation

Drugs and addiction

Green's promises

Create new residential rehabilitation facilities for treating addiction

"Establish new residential rehabilitation facilities to meet the demand for treatment of addictions." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Increase the proportion of the Department of Health's budget that is spent on mental health and addiction service to 12%

Family doctors and primary care

Green's promises

Enhance doctors' practices with fully-funded collaborative team-based family practices

"Give every New Brunswicker a permanent health care team in their community, by enhancing doctors’ practices with properly funded collaborative team-based family practices and expanding community health centres, including a funding model for nurse practitioners and other health professionals." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Expand community health centres

Create a funding model for nurse practitioners and other health professionals

Ensure primary care providers have adequate administrative support

"Ensure primary care providers have adequate administrative support to free them from time-consuming paperwork so they can see more patients." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Gender-affirming care

Green's promise

Support specialised training and establish dedicated roles to provide transgender healthcare

"Support specialized training and establish dedicated roles to enhance transgender healthcare." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Health administration

Green's promises

Make Public Health New Brunswick an arms-length body, directed by the Chief Medical Officer of Health

"Make Public Health New Brunswick an arms length body, directed by the Chief Medical Officer of Health, so it can effectively keep New Brunswickers healthy." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Restore authority of local hospital administrators to manage emergency and acute care services

"Enhance hospital care by restoring the authority of local hospital administrators to manage emergency and acute care services." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Set up locally-elected community health boards to decentralise the management of hospitals and clinics

"Decentralize the management of hospitals and clinics by establishing locally elected community health boards that can determine services based on community needs and expectations." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Health coverage

Green's promises

Provide public funding for essential medical supplies, such as diabetes test strips, ostomy bags, and enteral nutrition supplies

Publicly fund psychotherapy

Health staffing

Green's promises

Provide competitive salaries, retention bonuses, and benefits, comparable to those in Nova Scotia and PEI

"Retain and recruit health care professionals through competitive salaries, retention bonuses, and benefits comparable to those in Nova Scotia and PEI." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Offer full tuition bursaries for students in medical and nursing school

Provide settlement services to new doctors and nurse practitioners

Long-term care

Green's promises

Ensure seniors waiting in hospitals for placement in a nursing home or special care home receive equivalent services and activities

Index the Comfort and Clothing Allowance for long-term care residents to the cost of living

Cap costs for residents of special care homes

"Cap costs for residents of special care homes, as is done in nursing homes." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Ensure residents in long-term care facilities receive 4.1 hours of care per day

Ensure all seniors have access to long-term care in their preferred official language

Mental health

Green's promises

Publicly fund psychotherapy

Provide counselling service through community health clinics

Increase the proportion of the Department of Health's budget that is spent on mental health and addiction service to 12%

Natal care

Green's promise

Expand midwifery services across the province

"Expand midwifery services across the province, building on the success of Horizon’s midwifery clinic in Fredericton." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Neurodegenerative diseases

Green's promise

Launch a public inquiry into high rates of neurodegenerative disease among New Brunswickers

Seniors

Green's promises

Enact a Dementia Strategy

"Enact a Dementia Strategy to reduce the number of seniors requiring placement in long-term care, reduce the incidence of dementia, and better support those with early onset dementia." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Index the Comfort and Clothing Allowance for long-term care residents to the cost of living

Reinstate the Primary Informal Caregiver Benefit

Provide funding for homecare services through the Nursing Homes Without Walls programme

"Provide funding for homecare services through the Nursing Homes Without Walls program to supplement existing services." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Improve home repair and renovation programmes

"To enable seniors to stay in their homes, improve home repair and renovation program." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Sexual and reproductive health

Green's promise

Establish women's health centres to address women's unique needs and reduce barriers to abortion services

Tobacco products

Green's promise

Increase the legal age for purchasing tobacco to 21

Housing & Homelessness

Affordable housing

Green's promises

Give the NB Housing Corporation municipal housing authorities, and non-profit organisations right-of-first-refusal on low-income housing

"Adopt right of first refusal legislation to enable the New Brunswick Housing Corporation, municipal housing authorities and non-profit organizations to acquire and protect low-cost housing when it comes on the market." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Have the NB Housing Corporation prioritise constructing public, no-profit, and cooperative housing to expand affordable options

"Have the NB Housing Corporation prioritize the construction of public, non-profit, and cooperative housing to expand affordable options for low and moderate-income individuals and families." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Home purchases and ownership

Green's promise

Overhaul the property tax and assessment system to make property taxes and assessments fair and equitable

"Overhaul the property tax and assessment system to restructure property taxes and assessments so they are fair and equitable." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Homeless services

Green's promise

Invest in supportive housing programmes that combine affordable housing with wrap-around support services

"Invest in supportive housing programs that combine affordable housing with wrap-around support services to address the complex needs of vulnerable populations experiencing homelessness." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Public housing

Green's promise

Have the NB Housing Corporation prioritise constructing public, no-profit, and cooperative housing to expand affordable options

Rental housing

Green's promises

Set a permanent rent cap to protect tenants from unaffordable rent increase

Let Residential Tenancies Officers intervene if landlords discriminate against tenants based on race, disability, or having children or pets

"Expand the mandate of Residential Tenancies Officers to allow them to intervene in cases of landlords discriminating against tenants based-on race, disability, or having children or pets." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Create a public rental registry to disclose rent, heat costs, and planned renovations for rental properties

"Create a public rental registry for rental properties to provide information about rent and heat costs and planned renovations." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Regulate short-term rentals to prevent them from reducing availability of affordable long-term rental units

Jobs, Businesses, & Labour

Agriculture

Green's promises

Increase provincial food self-sufficiency

"Develop food import replacement strategies to increase food self-sufficiency." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Set local procurement targets for public institutions to prioritise locally-grown and produced food

"Set ambitious local procurement targets for public institutions, including hospitals, schools, universities, colleges, and long-term care homes, to prioritize locally grown and produced food." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Provide financial assistance for small and medium-scale food production, processing and distribution

"Provide financial assistance to remove barriers to small and medium-scale food production, processing, and distribution." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Undertake an agricultural reform focusing on farm diversification and value-added processing

"Undertake an agricultural reform focusing on farm diversification and value-added processing in collaboration with farmers and their communities." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Provide income insurance and extension services to support farmers transitioning to ecological and regenerative farming practices

"Provide income insurance and extension services to support farmers transitioning to ecological and regenerative farming practices that restore soil health, capture carbon, and reduce greenhouse gases." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Arts and culture

Green's promises

Create a professional designation for artists

"Enact legislation to establish a professional designation for artists." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Provide stable, long-term funding to arts, heritage, and cultural organisations

"Provide stable, long-term funding to arts, heritage, and cultural organizations to foster New Brunswick’s talent and creativity.

Ensure stable funding for New Brunswick artists to expand their market in New Brunswick and beyond."

— Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Economic development

Green's promises

Establish a Department of Community and Rural Development to support community-led regional development

"Establish a Department of Community and Rural Development with decentralized decision-making to support community-led regional development." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Set local procurement quotas for government departments and Crown Corporations

"Increase the market for locally produced goods and services by setting local procurement quotas for government departments and Crown Corporations." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Labour rights and unions

Green's promises

Update the Employment Standards Act to provide paid sick days, guaranteed vacation, and paid overtime based on actual wages

Ban the use of replacement workers during a strike or lockout

Repeal Bill 17, which circumvented the collective bargaining process

Reestablish permanent labour relations tables for government and unions to collaborate

Pay equity

Green's promises

Introduce pay equity legislation for the private sector

Implement a plan to achieve pay equity for workers in government funded care, childcare, and community service sectors

Require employers to include an expected pay range in publicly-advertised job postings

Poverty and the minimum wage

Green's promises

Create a Guaranteed Livable Income programme to eliminate deep poverty

"Develop and implement a Guaranteed Liveable Income program in collaboration with the federal government to eliminate deep poverty." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Immediately raise social assistance rates of all categories and adjust accordingly every year until a Guaranteed Livable Income is in place

Raise the minimum wage to $20/hour no later than 2028 and reduce taxes on small and medium businesses to aid the transition

Startups and small businesses

Green's promise

Reduce the small business tax rate to 1%, and raise the income threshold from $500,000 to $700,000

Tourism

Green's promises

Invest in infrastructure for nature, history, and cultural tourism

"Invest in infrastructure to promote nature, history and cultural tourism, including a provincial network for interpreting natural protected areas and historically and culturally significant sites." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Invest in cycling trails to support eco-tourism and active transportation

"Support eco-tourism and active transportation by investing in cycling trails such as the completion of the Shore Line cycling trail between St. Stephen and Saint John and the Acadian Peninsula Veloroute." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Develop a comprehensive Heritage Plan to preserve and celebrate New Brunswick's rich historical and cultural assets

"Develop a comprehensive Heritage Plan that prioritizes the preservation and celebration of New Brunswick’s rich historical and cultural assets such as covered bridges and lighthouses." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Youth employment

Green's promises

Develop a youth employment strategy to reduce the youth who are neither employed nor enrolled in education or training from 18% to 10%

"Develop an ambitious youth employment strategy with the goal of reducing the number of young New Brunswickers who are neither employed or enrolled in education or training programs from 18% to 10%." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Launch a job programme offering training and employment opportunities to youth in conservation and supporting climate action and adaptation

"Launch the Youth Climate Corps, a new job program offering training and employment opportunities to young people to conserve land and water, support community resilience, and advance climate action and adaptation measures." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Society & Government

Consumer protection

Green's promises

Require companies to provide repair manuals free of charge, and supply parts, software, and tools for repair at a fair price

Require opt-in for automatic renewals of monthly and annual subscriptions

Require companies to include all mandatory fees in their upfront advertised price

Government transparency and decision-making

Green's promises

Make public briefing papers with data and factual information on which proposed legislation is based

"Provide public access to briefing papers that share the data and factual information on which proposed legislation is based." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Answer requests for information from the public without automatically requiring citizens to go through the Right to Information Act process

"Answer requests for information from the public without automatically requiring citizens to go through the Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act process." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Empower the Right to Information Ombud to order the release of information to the public

"Reform the Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act to empower the Ombud to order the release of information to the public." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Strengthen protections for whistleblowers within the civil service

Make the beneficial ownership registry free and publicly accessible

Ensure factors and objections considered in adopting municipal by-laws are disclosed during public meetings

"Amend the Local Governance Act to ensure factors and objections considered in adopting by-laws are disclosed during public meetings." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Immigration

Green's promises

Remove barriers for refugee claimants to access provincial programmes such as social assistance and work permits in a timely manner

Structure Immigration NB to manage immigration so it respects the principle of duality

Provide additional funding to increase staff at the New Brunswick Refugee Clinic

"Provide additional funding to boost staff capacity at the New Brunswick Refugee Clinic to assist refugee claimants and asylum seekers." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Ask the federal government for greater control over immigration, including international study permits and temporary foreign workers

"Obtain greater authority over immigration, including international study permits and temporary foreign workers, to respond to the specific needs of New Brunswick." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Support settlement associations to expand their services

"Support settlement associations to expand their services to integrate newcomers into their communities." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Ensure temporary foreign workers have access to Medicare and a pathway to permanent residency

"Ensure temporary foreign workers have access to Medicare and a pathway to permanent residency." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Indigenous reconciliation

Green's promises

Commission an Indigenous-led, independent public inquiry into the New Brunswick justice and policing systems

"Commission an Indigenous-led, independent public inquiry into the New Brunswick justice and policing systems to uncover systemic racism against Indigenous peoples and how to correct it." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Enter into partnership agreements with First Nations for stewardship of Crown lands

Fully implement the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Replace all place names containing racist terminology against Indigenous peoples to names recommended by First Nations

"Restore all place names containing racist terminology against Indigenous peoples to their original or traditional Wabanaki names, or names recommended by First Nations." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Support First Nations in their efforts to revitalise the Wabanaki languages in New Brunswick

Indigenous women, girls, and 2-spirited people

Green's promise

Fully implement the recommendations of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Justice system

Green's promises

Adequately fund court services, including returning court services to rural communities

"Adequately fund court services, including returning court services to rural communities, to ensure the effective functioning of the court system." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Commission an Indigenous-led, independent public inquiry into the New Brunswick justice and policing systems

Languages

Green's promises

Create a Legislative Standing Committee on Official Languages to review the Official Languages Act in a transparent manner

"Create a Legislative Standing Committee on Official Languages, with the mandate to review the Official Languages Act in an open and transparent manner." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Set a clear legal obligation for government to allow provincial public employees to work in their preferred official language

"Establish a clear legal obligation on the government to ensure provincial public employees have the right to work in their preferred official language, similar to the federal government standards." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Structure Immigration NB to manage immigration so it respects the principle of duality

Ensure all seniors have access to long-term care in their preferred official language

Support First Nations in their efforts to revitalise the Wabanaki languages in New Brunswick

Lobbying and political donations

Green's promise

Include details on who is lobbying whom, on what issue, and at what time in the Lobbyist Registry

Municipal funding and government

Green's promises

Overhaul the property tax and assessment system to make property taxes and assessments fair and equitable

"Overhaul the property tax and assessment system to restructure property taxes and assessments so they are fair and equitable." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Reform the municipal property tax structure to decouple heavy industrial property tax rates from residential rates

"Reform the municipal property tax structure to decouple heavy industrial property tax rates from residential rates to provide flexibility to municipalities when changing tax rates." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

End access to government funding for companies that use offshore tax havens

"End access to government funding for companies that use offshore tax havens to avoid paying income taxes in New Brunswick."— Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Eliminate property tax exemptions for heavy industry

Fulfill the commitment to a new fiscal framework for local governance

People with disabilities

Green's promises

Create a provincial disability support programme

Accelerate the implementation date of the Accessibility Act form 2040 to 2033

Sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Accessibility Standards Canada to inform and guise the implementation of the Accessibility Act

Public safety

Green's promises

Provide funding for communities and regions to implement community policing with local police forces

"Provide funding for communities and regions to empower them to implement community policing using local police forces." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Fund community organisations working on issues related to sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and sexual harm of children

"Properly fund community organizations working on issues related to sexual violence, intimate partner violence , and sexual harm of children, and increase funding to fill the gaps in services for survivors." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Commission an Indigenous-led, independent public inquiry into the New Brunswick justice and policing systems

Racism

Green's promises

Make the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission an independent body reporting directly to the Legislative Assembly

"Equality and inclusion are fundamental to a just society. Discrimination not only denies individuals their dignity but also hinders their ability to fully participate and contribute to our communities. A Green government is dedicated to promoting equality by making the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission an independent body reporting directly to the Legislative Assembly. This crucial step will enhance transparency and accountability in addressing human rights issues. To achieve genuine equality, we must go further by actively dismantling existing barriers that prevent marginalized groups from accessing opportunities and services." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Fully implement the recommendations from the Systemic Racism Commissioner's Final Report 2022

"Fully implement the recommendations from the Systemic Racism Commissioner’s Final Report 2022, including commissioning an Indigenous-led, independent public inquiry into New Brunswick’s justice and policing systems to identify and correct systemic racism against Indigenous people." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Create a government secretariat led by a Deputy Minister to tackle systemic racism across government, institutions, and Crown Corporations

"Create a government secretariat led by a Deputy Minister empowered with overseeing the dismantling of systemic racism across government, its institutions and its Crown Corporations." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Commission an Indigenous-led, independent public inquiry into the New Brunswick justice and policing systems

Voting and democratic engagement

Green's promises

Implement a mixed-member proportional representation voting system, so that the composition of the Legislature reflects the popular vote

Create Citizens' Assemblies to examine important issues and recommend actions to the Legislative Assembly

"Enact legislation to establish Citizens’ Assemblies to examine important issues and recommend actions to the Legislative Assembly." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

Lower the voting age to 16

Allow permanent residents to vote in municipal elections

Grant the Chief Electoral Officer investigative powers comparable to their counterparts across the country

Biography

submitted by the candidate or their team

Passionate and professional, Zara seeks change for Rothesay. A Business Consultant with experience in strategic planning, education, tourism, fundraising and more, Zara will work with community leaders for a collaborative approach. She lives in Rothesay with her kids and dogs.

A passionate and professional individual, Zara grew up in the Village of Fairvale - now part of Rothesay. Like many young people in New Brunswick, Zara moved away, feeling that Rothesay was not somewhere that she could thrive professionally or personally as a member of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

Moving back 8 years ago with their kids, Zara recognized the benefits of the town as well as the need for change. Committed to that change, Zara has been working and volunteering with local businesses and non-profits as a Business Consultant and a board member, and taking after her grandfather to pursue politics. She's also worked in outdoor adventure and education, travel and tourism, fundraising, and many other areas that give her a unique understanding of environmental issues, communication, global issues, and infrastructure.

She has a diploma in Small Business Management in Outdoor Adventure from Algonquin College, a degree in Applied Management from UNBSJ and is committed to learning and listening.

Zara currently lives in Rothesay with her two kids and two dogs. She hopes to see you out in the community and welcomes conversations, questions, and how you would love to see Rothesay Grow with the Green Party.

Reason for running

submitted by the candidate or their team

Rothesay needs a leader that is building a community where everyone can thrive. Where youth have opportunities and feel safe: Seniors have access to healthcare and transportation: Families have quality education and services: Newcomers have access to resources and community.

After moving back to Rothesay 8 years ago, I decided to commit myself to looking into the reasons why I left; so other New Brunswickers (like my kids) wouldn't have to. We live in a beautiful place; I want to help make it more inclusive, affordable, accessible and localized.

My priorities include improving local services and accessible transportation, creating affordable living solutions, supporting Healthcare for all within our community, protecting the natural environment such as the beautiful Kennebecasis River systems, increasing education and creating support for minority groups.

I want to have a collaborative, community based approach with accountability in all actions, working with community groups and experts to find solutions to systemic issues facing Rothesay and New Brunswick as a whole. I recognize that change can be overwhelming and am open to any and all conversations with voters regarding my goals, policies and ideals.

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