Performance Scorecards

Bryan Butler brings 34 years of law enforcement experience — with the Moncton Police Force and the RCMP — to a council role that frequently grapples with policing questions. That expertise is genuine and it shows: his contributions to the RCMP service review were substantive, his town halls on north end community safety drew over 100 residents, and his ability to explain the mechanics of policing deployment to neighbours is a form of public education that most councillors cannot provide.

Charles Léger is a policy-oriented, third-term councillor who has carved out a distinctive niche in public safety, progressive social policy, and housing. His guaranteed livable basic income motion — passed unanimously in September 2022 — demonstrates a rare ability on a divided council: championing a bold idea in a way that brings every colleague along. Getting a unanimous vote on anything is an achievement in municipal politics; getting one on a progressive social policy proposal is more remarkable still.

Daniel Bourgeois is the most contradictory figure on this council, and evaluating him honestly requires holding two things simultaneously: he is a genuine intellectual asset whose rigorous scrutiny and policy initiative have produced real outcomes, and he is a councillor whose conduct and collaboration failures have systematically undermined those same contributions.

Dave Steeves had a solid first term with one defining episode: the religious symbols reversal in December 2023. When a closed-door council vote to remove a menorah and nativity scene from City Hall drew national criticism and a 6,000-person petition, Steeves — alongside Butler and Crossman, who had all voted against the removal in the private session — introduced the motion to reverse course and argued publicly that decisions of this nature should be made in public. The reversal was unanimous. The honest reading is that the public response made reversal inevitable; the credit Steeves deserves is for being on the right side before it was the obvious side, and for stepping forward to formalize it.

Marty Kingston is personally well-known across Moncton through his two-decade broadcasting career as the voice of the Moncton Wildcats and a regular presence at charitable and community events. That visibility is a genuine asset for a councillor-at-large — residents encounter their representative outside the formal council context, which creates a form of accessibility that most politicians cannot manufacture.

Paul Richard is a principled, equity-minded first-term councillor whose most significant contribution — moving the original motion to review Moncton's policing services in 2021 — set in motion a multi-year accountability exercise that this council needed to undertake regardless of the outcome. The fact that the resulting review concluded the opposite of what Richard advocated for does not diminish the democratic value of insisting the question be asked and answered properly.

Shawn Crossman is a dedicated, community-first councillor whose personal story lends particular weight to his public service. Diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2018, he continued active council duties through treatment, founded the Moncton Myeloma Support Group and the annual Moncton Myeloma March, and emerged as an even more engaged public servant. That kind of perseverance in the face of serious illness, in service of a community, is remarkable on its own terms.

Dawn Arnold presided over the most consequential period in modern Moncton history. The city grew faster than almost anywhere else in Canada during her tenure — a 5.1% population increase from 2023 to 2024 that ranked second nationally — and her administration positioned Moncton to absorb that growth with major investments in housing, infrastructure, and climate planning. The $36.3 million downtown infrastructure overhaul, the $15.5 million Housing Accelerator Fund, the net-zero emissions plan, and the 25-year Urban Growth Strategy are all tangible deliverables from her time in office.

Monique LeBlanc brings extraordinary life experience to the council chamber: physiotherapist, educator, business owner, former provincial MLA with experience as Government Caucus Chair, Deputy Speaker, and Opposition Critic. Her personal character was demonstrated with unusual clarity in December 2023, when she rushed to help a man experiencing a drug overdose on St. George Street — administering Naloxone while waiting for paramedics, and returning the next day to check on his recovery. That act reveals someone whose public service instinct extends well beyond electoral politics.

Paulette Thériault's legacy in Moncton is most visible in the cultural institutions she helped build. Founding the Northrop Frye International Literary Festival in 1999 — which earned the Lieutenant Governor's Dialogue Award in 2005 and has grown into a nationally recognized event — and directing the restoration of the Aberdeen Cultural Centre are contributions that will outlast her council tenure by decades. These are not small achievements in the life of a mid-sized Canadian city.

Susan Edgett is a professionally competent second-term councillor with a genuinely impressive pre-council record of community leadership: first female president of the Moncton Rotary Club, chair of the Codiac Regional Police Authority, race director for Legs for Literacy. These are substantive, credentialed roles that reflect sustained community investment over many years.