N.B. mystery illness: Health minister says he forgot about dismissing neurologist [Video]

An advocate for patients of New Brunswick’s alleged mystery neurological disease says the province’s health minister has not been honest with her.

Stacey Quigley Cormier became an advocate after her stepdaughter Gabrielle’s condition continued to decline years after she was diagnosed by a doctor with a mystery neurological illness.

“She sleeps about 16 hours a day, she still uses the wheelchair when needed and the cane all the time,” Quigley Cormier said about Gabrielle.

“We’re focusing on quality of life.”

The previous PC government had shut down the investigation into the illness in February 2022, after dozens of New Brunswickers reported degenerative neurological symptoms.

The Blaine Higgs government said a team of neurologists and other health experts found no such disease existed.

Quigley Cormier says she and other patients and advocates were emotional when incoming Premier Susan Holt announced a new scientific review in late 2024.

“We were just hopeful that we were going to move …