The tide goes out for Blaine Higgs, anti-politician [Video]

Early in his tenure as premier, Blaine Higgs pointed to his work at Irving Oil — and the immutable rhythms of the tides in the Bay of Fundy — to explain how he would govern.

Ships heavy with refined gasoline could only sail out at high tide, Higgs told a Saint John business audience in April 2019, forcing him to carefully time when they left port.

“I remember all the years working, with ships coming and going, and making the tides, and people said, ‘Those tides must really mess you up, loading the ships and getting ships out,'” he recalled. 

“‘Nope,'” he said. “It kept you focused, because you didn’t dare miss one … It kept you focused on getting the job done.”

He would bring the same deliberate, disciplined approach to the job of premier, he said.

But Higgs also defined himself as an anti-politician willing to depart from …