Tory Leader Blaine Higgs: Offering gravitas, experience in bid for N.B. premier
Blaine Higgs grew up in the border town of Forest City, N.B., but there really wasn’t much of a border.
When customs officers, including his father, left for the day at 5 p.m., Higgs would cross the bridge spanning the St. Croix River on foot into Forest City, Maine, where his best friend lived.
“There weren’t gates back then,” says Higgs. “We could just walk across the border.”
The 64-year-old politician, who now projects an air of gravitas befitting his experience as a retired oil executive and former finance minister, conjures up a more mischievous version of himself as a teenager.