Without a Lieutenant Governor, the Legislature of New Brunswick (which consists of the Legislative Assembly and the Lieutenant Governor) can pass no laws, and the Government of New Brunswick can promulgate no Orders-in-Council in the name of the Lieutenant Governor-in-Council and no proclamations in the name of the Lieutenant Governor. Administrators who can act in place of Lieutenant Governors also lose their functions upon the resignation or death of the Lieutenant Governor whom they serve.
Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau, the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, has just died of cancer after having revealed the diagnosis in the fall of 2018 around the time of the last change of government from Gallant to Higgs. CBC News reports that the province’s Protocol Office will make more announcements in the coming days. Canada has lost two Lieutenant Governors to cancer in as many months, after W. Thomas Molloy, the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, died in office on 2 July.
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