The New Brunswick Liberal Association is asking Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs to apologize for a joke he made at the launch of the party's election campaign. Higgs speaks with media outside of Government House after meeting with Lt.-Gov. Brenda Murphy in Fredericton, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. Higgs narrated a story where a party volunteer canvassing during the 2014 election cycle was told not to worry about a woman who had died because she was a Liberal.Photo by Stephen MacGillivray/THE CANADIAN PRESS

New Brunswick Liberals ask PC leader Blaine Higgs to apologize for 'joke' about dead supporter

Higgs drew the party's ire during remarks made at his Thursday campaign kickoff event, hours after he dissolved the legislature and officially triggered the campaign

by · National Post

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative leader disrespected the province’s residents by presenting the death of a Liberal supporter as funny, the party said as it called for Blaine Higgs 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.

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