Provincial Elections: BC, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick Head to Polls in 2024

Published on January 3, 2024

Three provinces in Canada will be heading to the polls later this year, and all of them some time before the end of October. The incumbent premiers of British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick have confirmed they will be running for re-election in 2024. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, despite losing two Regina seats in a summer byelection to the NDP, is still among the top most-supported premiers in Canada, a status he has consistently held onto over the years. Mr. Moe has been in the news in 2023 for his rebuke of Ottawa over energy policies and the carbon tax, as well as his legislation supporting parental rights over transgender and other issues in schools.  The NDP, meanwhile, sees the two byelection wins as a positive sign in their bid to form government again for the first time since their 2007 loss....

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