KISS NB
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KISS NB (Keep It Simple Solutions, New Brunswick), founded in 2017[1] by former dairy farmer and ambulance volunteer, Gerald Bourque, is an unregistered political party based in the province of New Brunswick, Canada.
Keep It Simple Solutions, New Brunswick | |
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Former provincial party | |
Leader | Gerald Bourque |
Founded | 2017 (2017) |
Headquarters | 208 Upper Woodlands Road Woodlands, New Brunswick E6B 1N1 |
Ideology | Fiscal conservatism |
Colours | Yellow |
Seats in Legislature | 0 / 49 |
Website | |
kissnb | |
The party was created to advocate for the creation of a provincial constitution that would put strict limits on the borrowing and spending powers of the provincial government of New Brunswick.[2] As of 2020 and the subsequent years of the COVID pandemic, KISS NB has also taken a hardline stance against vaccine mandates and lockdown measures taken by the Blaine Higgs led provincial government.[3]
While the party fielded candidates in nine ridings during the 2018 New Brunswick provincial elections, no seats were won.
The founder, Bourque previously ran in the riding of Fredericton-York in the 2014 provincial election as an independent, receiving 2.9 per cent of the vote.[1]
The party was officially registered in March 2018, but was deregistered after the election on 31 October 2018 for failing to run at least ten candidates in the 2018 election.[4]
The party was reregistered on 26 August 2020 as the KISS N.B. Political Party[5] and fielded four candidates in the 2020 election. After failing to nominate ten candidates again, the party was deregistered for a second time on October 31, 2020.[6]