Brian Gallant

New Brunswick Premier Gallant spoke of the importance of tourism to the New Brunswick economy at a caucus retreat in Plaster Rock and encouraged caucus members to visit tourist attractions and to promote their visit on social media using the hashtag #NBPROUD. Tourism contributed $605 million to the New Brunswick GDP in 2015, a trend Gallant says is continuing into the 2016 tourism season. Read Mor

Canada's National Day of the Acadians was chosen by the first national convention of Acadians in 1881 in Memramcook, New Brunswick. The 15th of August was chosen because it was the Feast of the Assumption, a Catholic holy day celebrating the Virgin Mary. The holiday was deemed necessary to help showcase Acadians as a distinct culture.

Friday, July 1 is Canada Day,  Fête du Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867 enactment of the Constitution Act which united three colonies into a single country called Canada within the British Empire.

Premier Brian Gallant has completed a 12-stop provincial tour of chambers of commerce with visits to St. Stephen, Sussex, Perth-Andover, Fredericton, Miramichi, Kedgwick, Shippagan, Bathurst, Moncton, Edmundston, Saint John and Memramcook. The Premier says he spent the last two weeks talking to the people who know their local economies the best...

As part of his province-wide tour of communities, New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant visited the Edmundston Chamber of Commerce Tuesday.