A joke about a deceased Liberal supporter has landed New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs in hot water as the election campaign is now underway.
New Brunswick’s election campaign is officially underway, and over the next month, party leaders will fan out over the province as they hope to court voters. Silas Brown reports.A joke about a deceased Liberal supporter has landed New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs in hot water — mere hours after the province’s election campaign kicked off.
He said the volunteer spoke to a woman who assured her that she was voting for Higgs. When the volunteer began to make her way to the neighbour’s door, that’s when the joke took a controversial turn.Story continues below advertisement Holt said there has been division in the legislature, when “typically, in New Brunswick, we’ve had political parties that get along.”
“I don’t know what happened to the man, but he’s certainly a different person from the man who was elected in 2018,” Coon said.At dissolution, Higgs’ Progressive Conservative Party held 25 seats, the Liberal Party had 16 seats and the Green Party had three seats. There was one independent MLA and four vacant seats.Higgs, who became premier in 2018 and is seeking a third term, is starting this election campaign with the lowest approval rating of any premier in the country.
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