FOG BLOG N.B. POLITICAL LOG: DOMINIC CARDY RESIGNS AS EDUCATION MINISTER, HIGGS ANGRY OVER LETTER!

Cardy resigns as N.B. education minister, sends scorching letter to premier Higgs says he was shuffling Cardy out of cabinet, now wants him expelled from caucus Dominic Cardy has resigned as New Brunswick's minister of education and early childhood development.

Cardy announced in a tweet that he was quitting the cabinet of Premier Blaine Higgs but would stay on as a Progressive Conservative MLA for Fredericton West-Hanwell.

In a scorching resignation letter to Higgs, Cardy slammed the premier's leadership style, saying "change requires care, not a wrecking ball" and some reforms to French second-language education "will stall because of your micromanagement."

"You cannot change deadlines on large systems based on your emotional state, without undermining the quality of the work, or the morale of your team," the letter said.

"Government is not the same as building oil tankers," Cardy wrote, apparently referring to the premier's previous career with Irving Oil.

He also accuses Higgs of "choosing to yell 'data my ass' at a senior civil servant" because he didn't like what the department's numbers showed.