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 Hina Alam · National PostFREDERICTON — 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.