This is a page from the 2024 New Brunswick general election.
Looking for a different election? Click here.

Share this profile

Kate Elman Wilcott

Affordability

Childcare

Liberal's promises

Improve working conditions and increase wages for Early Childhood Educators
Increase financial support for ECE students
Reduce administrative and regulatory burden on childcare operators

"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

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

"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

Work with universities and colleges to develop long-term strategies for student housing
Keep provincial student loans interest-free
Provide more grants for students studying in high-priority fields

Poverty and the minimum wage

Liberal's promises

Better allow people receiving social assistance to participate in the workforce without financial penalty or loss of benefits

"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

"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 PST on electricity bills

"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

Require all new schools, hospitals, long-term care homes, and other public buildings have modern air filtration, heating, & cooling systems

"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

Work with the federal government to make big emitters bear the brunt of the price on carbon

"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 the emergency preparedness plan to deal with increasingly frequent extreme climate change-related weather events

"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

"Implement a coastal erosion plan to protect communities." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

Close cell coverage and high-speed internet gaps

Conservation

Liberal's promises

Increase conservation of lands and waters from 10% to 15%
Work with communities, First Nations, and experts to create a plan for 30% conservation

Green construction and retrofits

Liberal's promises

Increase support for home energy retrofits
Provide a free heat pump programme
Introduce a provincial programme for solar retrofits

Pollution

Liberal's promises

Update the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act to guarantee everyone the right to clean air and water
Investigate alternatives to pesticide and herbicide use
Reevaluate the safety of glyphosate with new and comprehensive data specific to New Brunswick
Increase restrictions on pesticide and herbicide use, including examining banning aerial spraying

"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

Develop an energy plan to provide affordable, reliable, clean energy

"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

Ensure all government buildings are net-zero by 2035
Ensure all government vehicles, including school buses, are electrified by 2035

Walkable, bikable communities

Liberal's promise

Increase active transportation infrastructure, including walking and cycling trails

"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

Continue grade one early French immersion
Expand access points for grade six entry

K-12 funding

Liberal's promise

Develop a new 10-year plan with teachers and other education professionals, experts, and parents

"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

Review class composition
Identify and fill staffing, training and resourcing gaps to effectively implement Policy 322 on inclusive education

"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

Ensure schools have staffing, spaces, & resources to provide one-on-one or small group support in literacy, numeracy, & learning behaviours

"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

K-12 staffing

Liberal's promises

Improve working conditions for all education professionals, prioritising support and wellness
Increase financial support for people entering education professions

Post-secondary

Liberal's promises

Work with universities and colleges to develop long-term strategies for student housing
Keep provincial student loans interest-free
Provide more grants for students studying in high-priority fields

School nutrition

Liberal's promise

Provide free, nutritious, universal free breakfasts, and pay-what-you-can lunches, for all students, using local food where possible

"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 people who have studies to work in the building trades

"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

Require all new schools, hospitals, long-term care homes, and other public buildings have modern air filtration, heating, & cooling systems

"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

Implement at-home pap tests for cervical cancer screening

Drugs and addiction

Liberal's promises

Invest in treatment beds throughout the province

"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

Ensure an optional continuum of care for those exiting treatment

Family doctors and primary care

Liberal's promises

Establish at least 30 community care clinics to offer local, collaborative care

"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 performing after-hours care

"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 technology, including centralised waitlists and digital records management systems

"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 the public health office independent

"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 to improve working conditions, prioritise supports, and increase retention

"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

Provide immediate retention payments for nurses

"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

Work with Dalhousie Medicine NB and Centre de formation médicale du N-B to create more training and residency seats
Work with regulators to improve foreign credential recognition for nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals

"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

Review and expand healthcare professionals' scope of practice to optimise their roles

Hospitals

Liberal's promise

Increase the time that operating rooms are open

Indigenous health

Liberal's promises

Invite First Nations leaders to create a bilateral forum and ongoing process for achieving culturally safe and equitable healthcare

"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

Support and work with First Nations healthcare leaders on the Health Transformation design and implementation process

"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

Work with First Nations to create and implement mental health and addiction programmes with culturally safe service and practice standards

"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

Long-term care

Liberal's promises

Expand the Nursing Homes Without Walls model

"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

Invest in wages for personal support workers and resident attendants to fill staffing gaps

"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

Set sector standards and transparent reporting practices, with a robust system for complaints

"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

Increase the comfort and clothing allowance for seniors from $150 to $200

Mental health

Liberal's promises

Include mental health professionals in as many community care clinics as possible

"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 psychologists
Develop a retention and training plan for mental health professionals, specifically within schools

"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

"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

"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

"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

Expand midwifery services
Provide funding for training midwives

Seniors

Liberal's promises

Review and update the process and standards for homecare allocation
Increase wages for homecare workers
Increase the comfort and clothing allowance for seniors from $150 to $200
Create a $250/mo caregiver benefit for unpaid and informal caregivers of aging family members

"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

Develop and implement an Alzheimer's and dementia support strategy

"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 the RSV vaccine for free for seniors and vulnerable people
Fund safety and accessibility retrofits for seniors and people with disabilities who wish to stay in their homes

"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

Fund one round of IVF

"Increase access to fertility treatments by funding one round of IVF, which is in line with jurisdictions across Canada."

Make contraception free
Ensure people can better access abortion services by amending regulation 84-20

"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

Create a Community Housing Retention and Expansion Pilot to fund non-profit and community housing

"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

Increase investments in modular and offsite housing

"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

Overhaul property tax to ensure stability and fairness

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

"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

Provide wraparound services, starting with housing, and support a community case management approach

"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

Work with municipalities and community groups who already use a housing-first approach

"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

Public housing

Liberal's promises

Invest in renovating existing public housing
Invest in creating new public housing

Rental housing

Liberal's promises

Immediately introduce a rent cap
Make a comprehensive update to the Residential Tenancies Act

Jobs, Businesses, & Labour

Arts and culture

Liberal's promises

Consider arts and culture as important economic and social drivers

"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

Support the transition committee's work on the Status of the Artist

Infrastructure

Liberal's promise

Create an asset management plan to ensure transportation infrastructure is prioritised for repair and replacement and contractors are paid

"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

Phase in pay equity in the private and care sectors, using a model similar to Quebec and Ontario

Poverty and the minimum wage

Liberal's promises

Better allow people receiving social assistance to participate in the workforce without financial penalty or loss of benefits

"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

"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

Review and improve investment tax credits like the SBITC and scientific research and economic development credits

"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 people who have studies to work in the building trades

"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 every year

"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

Commit to evidence-based decision-making across all departments
Reform the Right to Information legislation to ensure more accessible and less restrictive access to the public
Strengthen the Whistleblower Act to ensure anonymity and employment protections for whistleblowers

"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

Operate under an 'open by default' principle
Improve open data across government

Immigration

Liberal's promise

Focus immigration pathways on critical labour needs like healthcare, building trades, and education

"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

Rebuild nation-to-nation relationships that establish trust and a shared understanding of treaty obligations

"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

Renegotiate tax agreements with First Nations to ensure all parties have a fair deal

Justice system

Liberal's promise

Expand mental health court access

"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

Appoint a Deputy Minister to lead the Official Languages Secretariat
Establish a Standing Committee on Official Languages
Implement the recommendations of the McLaughlin/Finn report

Legislature

Liberal's promise

Use set calendars, allow remote participation, and modernise committee work

"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

Modernise and strengthen the lobbyist registry

"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

"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

Overhaul property tax to ensure stability and fairness

People with disabilities

Liberal's promises

Consider providing a basic income for people with disabilities

"Explore a plan for a basic income for New Brunswickers living with disabilities." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

Fund safety and accessibility retrofits for seniors and people with disabilities who wish to stay in their homes

"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, and implement recommendations

"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 residents with 25% off the cost of provincial park passes

"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



¯\_(ツ)_/¯


This candidate hasn't added policies to VoteMate.
They may still in the future!


Biography

from their website

Kate Wilcott is the Arts and Culture Coordinator for the City of Saint John, and a recognized leader in community development within the region as a result of her 25-year career as a teaching artist, producer, facilitator, collaborator, and as the founder of InterAction School of Performing Arts. Her professional and volunteer experience includes policy development, lecturing at universities, developing public safety protocol, organizing community events, fundraising, and touring with Symphony New Brunswick.



Kate Elman Wilcott hasn't uploaded a profile yet.

Get notified when a candidate adds their profile.

Join VoteMate
Do you represent Kate Elman Wilcott? Add your profile here.



Share this profile