{"id":230,"date":"2014-09-21T17:42:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T00:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/?p=230"},"modified":"2014-09-21T18:04:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T01:04:20","slug":"opinion-jamie-gillies-new-brunswicks-trend-of-electing-young-premiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/2014\/09\/21\/opinion-jamie-gillies-new-brunswicks-trend-of-electing-young-premiers\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION Jamie Gillies: New Brunswick&#8217;s trend of electing young premiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Gallant would make it 6 premiers who have won provincial elections under the age 40 since 1960<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/new-brunswick\/new-brunswick-votes-2014\/jamie-gillies-new-brunswick-s-trend-of-electing-young-premiers-1.2772086<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 22, New Brunswick may elect Brian Gallant and the New Brunswick Liberal Party as the new government of the province.\u00a0Gallant is 32 years old.<\/p>\n<div class=\"figure col4width floatright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.2773161.1411299251!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_300\/louis-j-robichaud.jpg\" alt=\"Louis J. Robichaud\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-caption\" style=\"color: #595959;\">Liberal Louis J. Robichaud formed his majority government in 1960 when he was 34. (CBC)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If Gallant is able to win the election, this will make him the third \u201cboy wonder\u201d premier elected in the province since Bernard Lord upset Camille Th\u00e9riault in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>But it raises an interesting question: is New Brunswick out of step with other provinces and the federal government in electing such young leaders?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Gallant would make it 6 premiers who have won provincial elections under the age 40 since 1960 http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/new-brunswick\/new-brunswick-votes-2014\/jamie-gillies-new-brunswick-s-trend-of-electing-young-premiers-1.2772086 &nbsp; On Sept. 22, New Brunswick may elect Brian Gallant and the New Brunswick Liberal Party as the new government of the province.\u00a0Gallant is 32 years old. Liberal Louis J. Robichaud formed his majority government in 1960 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16070,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5780,228886],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16070"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}