Blaine Higgs disrespected the New Brunswick's residents by presenting the death of a Liberal supporter as funny, the party said as it called for the him to apologize.
Higgs drew the party’s ire during remarks made at his Thursday campaign kickoff event in Quispamsis, N.B., held hours after he dissolved the legislature and officially triggered the campaign leading up to the Oct. 21 provincial election.
The conversation, the story went, began when the canvasser was leaving the home of a woman who had just voiced her intention to vote for Higgs. Green Party Leader David Coon described the anecdote as disgusting and questioned whether the comment could be passed off as a joke.Higgs, 70, has so far stuck to broadly populist messages as he seeks a third term as New Brunswick’s premier. His key issues so far have included bringing down the harmonized sales tax from 15 to 13 per cent and requiring teachers to get parental consent before they can use the preferred names and pronouns of young students in class.
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