New Brunswickers will head to the polls on Oct. 21 to decide whether to give the Progressive Conservatives under Blaine Higgs another four-year term in government.

Higgs visited Government House on Thursday morning and spent a half hour with Lt.-Gov. Brenda Murphy, who signed the writs for a provincial election.

He portrayed the campaign as a choice between his sound fiscal management — including six straight years of budget surpluses — and a potential Liberal-Green "coalition" that might undo th…