As New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs spoke in the legislature Thursday about his conviction that gender dysphoria has become “trendy,” and increased acceptance of it is hurting kids and excluding parents, cabinet minister Dorothy Shephard got up and left the chamber.
She returned to vote with five of her colleagues for an opposition motion against Higgs’s wishes.
Then she took her name plate off of her desk, put it in her purse and handed the Progressive Conservative premier a hand-written, two-sentence letter of resignation from her post as social development minister.
“He said, ‘Well, it’s good to get it in early,'” Shephard told Information Morning Saint John
