Susan Holt

…An Instagram meme is an example of the Liberal premier Susan Holt’s approach to communicating and decision-making, a novel approach to transparency that combines putting out ideas only to abandon them, plus revealing her thinking on social media. …Holt took a similar approach earlier in February, after CBC News revealed that her natural resources minister, John Herron, was examining a proposal from large forestry companies including J.D. Irving, to swap some forest land for logging access to protected areas. …“A business proposed an idea, media wrote stories, and conclusions were jumped to,” Holt said in a Facebook exchange. Our government is not opening up protected lands, nor entertaining the idea.” In a full-page newspaper advertisement, co-CEO Jim Irving responded that J.D. Irving had worked on the proposal for more than a year “at government’s request.”