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Natacha Vautour
Affordability
Childcare
Liberal's promises
"Reduce the administrative and regulatory burden on childcare operators to enhance their ability to provide the best care possible for children." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Fuel and transportation costs
Liberal's promise
"Immediately remove the Higgs Gas Tax, saving you around 4 cents a litre at the pumps." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Post-secondary
Liberal's promises
Poverty and the minimum wage
Liberal's promises
"Increase the capacity of New Brunswickers receiving social assistance to participate in the workforce without financial penalty or loss of benefits." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Increase social assistance rates given the rising cost of food and housing, while ensuring regulations are not penalizing recipients." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Tax measures and rebates
Liberal's promise
"Immediately remove the provincial sales tax (PST), on electricity providing 10% relief from home energy bills." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Climate Change & the Environment
Air quality
Liberal's promise
"Our government will require that all new schools, hospitals, long-term care homes, and other public buildings have modern air filtration, heating, and cooling systems, following ASHRAE 241. For existing infrastructure, we will add suitable air filtration and cooling units." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Carbon pricing
Liberal's promise
"While we move to a 100 percent non-emitting grid, we will work with the federal government to ensure big emitters bear the brunt of the price on carbon." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Climate adaptation
Liberal's promises
"Review and update our emergency preparedness plan for dealing with the increasing number of extreme climate change-related weather events." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Implement a coastal erosion plan to protect communities." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Conservation
Liberal's promises
Green construction and retrofits
Liberal's promises
Pollution
Liberal's promises
"Implement the recommendations of the Legislative Assembly’s all-party Standing Committee on Climate Change and Environmental Stewardship to increase restrictions on pesticide and herbicide use, including examining the banning of aerial spraying." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Power generation
Liberal's promise
"Deliver an energy plan that provides affordable, reliable, clean energy for New Brunswickers and New Brunswick businesses." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Liberal's promises
Walkable, bikable communities
Liberal's promise
"Work with communities to increase active transportation infrastructure, including walking and cycling trails, to build healthier communities." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Education
French immersion
Liberal's promises
K-12 funding
Liberal's promise
"Develop a fresh 10-year plan with teachers and other education professionals, experts, and parents to set a collective vision for education." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
K-12 learning needs
Liberal's promises
"Ensure schools have adequate staffing, spaces, and resources to provide classroom support in literacy, numeracy, and learning behaviours, which will provide students with more small group or one-on-one practice." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Support inclusive education for all students by reviewing class composition and identifying and filling the staffing, training, and resourcing gaps impacting the effective implementation of Policy 322." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
K-12 staffing
Liberal's promises
Post-secondary
Liberal's promises
School nutrition
Liberal's promise
"Provide nutritious universal free breakfast and pay-what-you-can lunches to all New Brunswick students leveraging local, New Brunswick food where possible." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Trades
Liberal's promise
"Provide grants to New Brunswickers who have studied to work in high-priority fields, including healthcare, the building trades, and education." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Healthcare
Air quality
Liberal's promise
"Our government will require that all new schools, hospitals, long-term care homes, and other public buildings have modern air filtration, heating, and cooling systems, following ASHRAE 241. For existing infrastructure, we will add suitable air filtration and cooling units." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Cancer
Liberal's promise
Drugs and addiction
Liberal's promises
"Invest in treatment beds throughout the province, ensure there is a bed for anyone who wants it when they want it, and ensure that there is an optional continuum of care for those exiting treatment." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Family doctors and primary care
Liberal's promises
"Establish and support at least 30 community care clinics that offer local, collaborative care from a variety of health professionals in one place when you need it." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Provide dedicated non-clinical staff and administrative support to these clinics to ensure healthcare providers are focused on patients, not paperwork." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Improve the compensation model for doctors and primary care providers, including fair pay for those who perform after-hours care." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Health administration
Liberal's promises
"Invest in modern technology, including centralized waitlists and standardized digital records management systems, to facilitate the seamless and secure exchange of patient information among healthcare providers, regions, the regional health authorities, and community care clinics." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Make our public health office independent to ensure unbiased and evidenced-based decision- making and research are communicated to all New Brunswickers." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Health staffing
Liberal's promises
"Create a multi-pronged plan developed for all healthcare professionals to improve working conditions, prioritize support for their wellness, and increase retention." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Leverage existing healthcare knowledge by working with regulators to improve foreign credential recognition for nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals already in our province and looking to call New Brunswick home." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Immediately deliver retention payments to show our respect for nurses and examine other tools that aid retention and recruitment." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Hospitals
Liberal's promise
Indigenous health
Liberal's promises
"Invite First Nations leaders to create a bilateral forum and ongoing process with the goal of achieving culturally safe and equitable healthcare for Indigenous people in New Brunswick." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Work in partnership with First Nations to co-create and implement mental health and addiction programs that meet culturally safe First Nation service and practice standards of care." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Support, collaborate, and engage with First Nations healthcare leaders in achieving their Health Transformation design and implementation process." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Long-term care
Liberal's promises
"Expand the Nursing Homes Without Walls model and ensure that those who want to stay at home can do so for as long as possible." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Establish sector standards and transparent reporting practices with a robust system for complaints that leads to quick responses and better overall delivery to ensure our seniors continue to receive excellent care." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Ensure all existing nursing home beds are accessible by filling staffing gaps by investing in wages for personal support workers and resident attendants ultimately resulting in increased hours of care." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Mental health
Liberal's promises
"Ensure mental health professionals are located in as many community care clinics as possible to ensure mental health is being treated as primary care and reduce the frequency of acute mental health challenges." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Increase residency seats for psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, and develop a retention and training plan for psychologists, counsellors, and other mental health professionals, specifically within schools." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Invest in community-based case management approaches for front-line service providers currently providing mental health support." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Create a Mental Health Advocate position to ensure New Brunswickers struggling with mental health and navigating the system have a champion." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Expand mental health court access to ensure the promotion of alternative pathways for justice." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Natal care
Liberal's promises
Seniors
Liberal's promises
"Implement a caregiver benefit for unpaid and informal caregivers of aging family members, giving caregivers $250 a month to recognize their contribution." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Work with communities to develop and implement a strategy that better supports those living with Alzheimer’s and dementia." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Provide funding for safety and accessibility retrofits for New Brunswick seniors and people with disabilities who wish to stay in their homes." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Sexual and reproductive health
Liberal's promises
"Increase access to fertility treatments by funding one round of IVF, which is in line with jurisdictions across Canada."
"Ensure New Brunswickers can better access abortion services by amending regulation 84–20." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Housing & Homelessness
Affordable housing
Liberal's promise
"Model a Community Housing Retention and Expansion Pilot to fund housing in the non-profit and community sectors that support capacity building pre-construction costs, and acquisition." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Home construction and supply
Liberal's promise
"Work with companies to increase investments in made-in New Brunswick solutions like modular and offsite housing." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Home purchases and ownership
Liberal's promise
Homeless services
Liberal's promises
"Invest in long-term and sustainable core funding for transition homes and frontline domestic violence services, including women’s shelters and additional support services." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Work directly with municipalities and community groups already grounded in a housing-first approach and support their expansion." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Provide wraparound services to those experiencing chronic homelessness, starting with housing, and support a community case management approach." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Public housing
Liberal's promises
Rental housing
Liberal's promises
Jobs, Businesses, & Labour
Arts and culture
Liberal's promises
"Consider arts and culture as important economic and social drivers. Better leverage opportunities to invest in our artists, cultural and creative industries, and institutions to ensure good-paying jobs and a robust creative economy that all New Brunswickers can be proud of." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Infrastructure
Liberal's promise
"Maximize the benefit of infrastructure to New Brunswickers by leveraging an asset management plan for transportation infrastructure to ensure roads and bridges are prioritized for repair or replacement and that contractors are paid on time." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Pay equity
Liberal's promise
Poverty and the minimum wage
Liberal's promises
"Increase the capacity of New Brunswickers receiving social assistance to participate in the workforce without financial penalty or loss of benefits." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Increase social assistance rates given the rising cost of food and housing, while ensuring regulations are not penalizing recipients." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Startups and small businesses
Liberal's promise
"Increase productivity by reviewing and improving investment tax credits like SBITC and scientific research and economic development (SR/ED) credits to ensure investments in research, automation, and technology." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Trades
Liberal's promise
"Provide grants to New Brunswickers who have studied to work in high-priority fields, including healthcare, the building trades, and education." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Society & Government
Budgets
Liberal's promise
"Balance the budget in each year of our mandate." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Government transparency and decision-making
Liberal's promises
"Strengthen the Public Interest Disclosure Act (Whistleblower Act) to ensure anonymity and employment protections for the whistleblower." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Immigration
Liberal's promise
"Focus immigration pathways on critical labour needs like healthcare, building trades and education, and supporting newcomers to make New Brunswick home." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Indigenous reconciliation
Liberal's promises
"Commit to rebuilding relationships with First Nations based on a nation-to-nation relationship that establishes trust and a shared understanding of treaty obligations. We will renegotiate tax agreements to ensure all parties have a fair deal." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Justice system
Liberal's promise
"Expand mental health court access to ensure the promotion of alternative pathways for justice." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Languages
Liberal's promises
Legislature
Liberal's promise
"Ensure our legislative assembly and its practices are modern and fit for purpose including set calendars, remote participation, and modernizing committee work." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Lobbying and political donations
Liberal's promises
"Modernize and strengthen the lobbyist registry to enhance transparency and accountability." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Ban out-of-province political donations to increase trust in our political parties." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Municipal funding and government
Liberal's promise
People with disabilities
Liberal's promises
"Explore a plan for a basic income for New Brunswickers living with disabilities." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
"Provide funding for safety and accessibility retrofits for New Brunswick seniors and people with disabilities who wish to stay in their homes." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Racism
Liberal's promise
"Immediately review and respond to the Systemic Racism Commissioner’s Final Report, working on a timely plan to implement its recommendations." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
Misc. topics
Parks
Liberal's promise
"Provide New Brunswick residents 25% off the cost of provincial park passes to encourage exercise and spending time outdoors." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12
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Biography
An educator who brings a wealth of experience and passion to her work. For 15 years, she was a dedicated classroom language arts teacher before transitioning to her current role with Brilliant Labs Atlantic. In this role, she has worked tirelessly to inspire and engage teachers and students across all four Atlantic provinces, developing skill sets that aim to make the world a better place both locally and globally.
Natacha’s journey as a teacher, speaker, mother, maker, and entrepreneur has honed her leadership skills across various projects. Her passion for pedagogy drives her to collaborate with teachers and stakeholders, leading projects that prepare students to help build a sustainable and diverse region that celebrates excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
Thanks to her vision and experience of best practice in educational management, Natacha is convinced that innovation goes far beyond technology. It encompasses the ethical use of materials, ensuring equitable access for all and promoting good mental health, while respecting the diversity of the region and its people. She is committed to achieving strategic objectives while developing excellent working relationships.
Natacha has made significant contributions to the educational community and beyond. Her projects have been published on the Brilliant Labs website, the Créons la suite and the Canadian Space Agency websites, highlighting her innovative approach to education. She has also been a keynote speaker at many prestigious events, including ACELF in Winnipeg, Clair2023 and LUDOVIALES Europe. Her speaking portfolio also includes various events organized by AEFNB and the Congrès de l’entrepreneuriat conscient au Québec.
In addition to her speaking engagements, Natacha is a past president of APTICA, a former member of the Dieppe Memramcook Minor Hockey Board of Directors, and has been vice-president of the DSF-S Education Council for the past two years.
Outside of her professional activities, Natacha has completed a marathon and is a devoted mother of two. She holds a degree in education, underscoring her strong academic foundation and dedication to lifelong learning. Her natural ability to develop
interpersonal relationships has greatly contributed to her success in building professional networks.
She hopes to continue to inspire and make a significant impact wherever she goes. Her passion for life, combined with her vast experience and innovative spirit, make her an invaluable asset to any establishment.
Pendant 15 ans, elle a été une enseignante dévouée dans une classe de langues avant de passer à son rôle actuel au sein des Labos Créatifs Atlantique. À ce titre, elle a travaillé sans relâche pour inspirer et mobiliser les enseignants et les élèves des quatre provinces de l’Atlantique, en développant des ensembles de compétences qui visent à rendre le monde meilleur, tant à l’échelle locale que mondiale.
Le parcours de Natacha en tant qu’enseignante, conférencière, mère, créatrice et entrepreneure lui a permis d’affiner ses compétences en leadership dans le cadre de divers projets. Sa passion pour la pédagogie la pousse à collaborer avec les enseignants et les parties prenantes, en menant des projets qui préparent les élèves à contribuer à la construction d’une région durable et diversifiée qui célèbre l’excellence, la collaboration et l’innovation.
Grâce à sa vision et à son expérience des meilleures pratiques de gestion éducative, Natacha est convaincue que l’innovation va bien au-delà de la technologie. Il englobe l’utilisation éthique des matériaux, la garantie d’un accès équitable pour tous et la promotion d’une bonne santé mentale, tout en respectant la diversité de la région et de ses habitants. Elle s’engage à atteindre les objectifs stratégiques tout en développant d’excellentes relations de travail. Natacha a apporté des contributions significatives à la communauté éducative et à d’autres. Ses projets ont été publiés sur le site Web de Labos Créatifs, le site Web de Créons la suite et le site Web de l’Agence spatiale canadienne, mettant en évidence son approche novatrice de l’éducation. Elle a également été conférencière principale lors de nombreux événements prestigieux, notamment l’ACELF à Winnipeg, Clair2023 et les LUDOVIALES (Europe). Son portefeuille de conférences comprend également divers événements organisés par l’AEFNB et le Congrès de l’entrepreneuriat conscient au Québec.
En plus de ses engagements en tant que conférencière, Natacha a été présidente de l’APTICA, elle a déjà siégé au conseil d’administration du hockey mineur de Dieppe Memramcook et elle est vice-présidente du Conseil de l’éducation du DSF-S depuis les deux dernières années.
En dehors de ses activités professionnelles, Natacha a terminé un marathon et est une mère dévouée de deux enfants. Elle est titulaire d’un diplôme en éducation, ce qui souligne ses solides bases académiques et son dévouement à l’apprentissage tout au long de la vie. Sa capacité naturelle à développer des relations interpersonnelles a grandement contribué à son succès dans la création de réseaux de relations professionnelles.
Elle espère continuer à inspirer et à avoir un impact significatif partout où elle va. Sa passion pour la vie, associée à sa vaste expérience et à son esprit novateur, fait d’elle un atout inestimable pour tout établissement.
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