Monday’s loss does not take away from that conviction, or his success. The result is not what conservatives in New Brunswick, or throughout Canada, wanted to see. But we’re confident history will judge him as a transformational figure who left the Picture Province far better than he found it.

The Progressive Conservative Leader’s negative campaign and his hard tack to the right cost the party at the ballot box

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.