Susan Holt

Holt has many other letters from women and girls here at home and elsewhere in the world saying her achievement inspired them.

In documents filed with the provincial regulator, BP said it is “looking to expand to offer natural gas supply into the province of New Brunswick to commercial customers.”

Susan Holt said her government would remove the province's four-cent-a-litre gas tax and then submit to Ottawa a "made in New Brunswick climate plan."

Scott Moe's Saskatchewan Party is seeking a fifth-straight majority after 17 years in office, while Carla Beck's NDP is looking to take back government for the first time since 2007.

On Monday night, Susan Holt's Liberals were elected with a majority and 31 seats, while incumbent premier Blaine Higgs lost his seat as part of a shift that left his Progressive Conservatives with 16 total.

New Brunswick voters have elected a Liberal majority government, tossing out the incumbent Progressive Conservatives after six years in power and handing the reins to the first woman ever to lead the province.

As New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs started his election campaign on Thursday, he claimed his main rivals were already planning a power-sharing deal similar to the now-defunct one between the federal Liberals and NDP.

Provincial leaders across Canada are taking turns criticizing the federal Liberal government's proposal to alleviate immigration pressure on Quebec and Ontario by resettling asylum seekers more equitably across the country.