Tuesday 12 February 2019

Longtime MLA Denis Landry elected interim Liberal leader



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Methinks the members of Canada's Natural Governing Party are suffering through a winter of much discontent throughout our native land N'esy Pas?





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Longtime MLA Denis Landry elected interim Liberal leader



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Harold Benson 
Harold Benson
His entourage looks impressed too.


David Amos
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David Amos
@Harold Benson Methinks the members of Canada's Natural Governing Party are suffering through a winter of much discontent throughout our native land N'esy Pas?





David Amos
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David Amos
Methinks its blatantly obvious byway of all the other comments that the SANB approves of Denis Landry being the latest liberal boss Surprise Surprise Surpise N'esy Pas?






Colin Seeley
Colin Seeley
A familiar looking group :

Doc- Grumpy- Happy- Sleepy- Bashful - Sneezy, - Dopey-

Need 2 more names


David Amos
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David Amos
Colin Seeley






Graeme Scott 
Graeme Scott
Pretty somber looking bunch in that photo.

David Amos
David Amos
@Graeme Scott YUP









Harold Benson  
Harold Benson
Ok we'll talk about JT instead.


David Amos
David Amos
@Harold Benson I presume "we" means you and Sam









Colin Seeley 
Jim Cyr
I count 10 males and only 2 females in that photo. If it was a photo of Tories, that unequal breakdown would lead to front page hysteria across Canada for a month.


David Amos
David Amos
@Jim Cyr Of that i have no doubt as well









Colin Seeley 
Cleve Gallant
Well if Landry thinks anything like Shawn boy and Brian boy I don’t want nothing to do with him !!!!


David Amos
David Amos
@Cleve Gallant Nor I









Colin Seeley 
Lou Bell
" There are people who felt a little bit set aside " says the SANB spokesman. Wonder who ??


David Amos
David Amos
@Lou Bell I will give you 3 guesses and the first two stooges won't count as much as the third.










Colin Seeley 
Jim Cyr
Well, it looks like the CBC censors don't want any one to point out the stunningly obvious.....the Libs have yet again chosen a white male. I guess hypocrisy is not to be discussed in polite company?? Jeez.


David Amos
David Amos
@Jim Cyr Who cares?









Colin Seeley 
michael levesque
gerry lowe should take some of his fat mla check and buy a shirt and tie


David Amos
David Amos
@michael levesque Why?








Colin Seeley  
michael levesque
will he pay back to the new brunswick taxpayer the $21,000 he paid to liberal friend eric allaby to do a ferry report. a report that could have been done free of charge to the new bruswick taxpayer by any number of people working in the dept of transportation in which he was the minister. clearly a waste of taxpayers money


David Amos
David Amos
@michael levesque I bet he won't









Matt Steele 
Matt Steele
So does this make Denis Landry the head of the SANB as well since the N.B. Liberal Party and the SANB appear to be one and the same . At least if Landry gets jammed up legally , maybe Trudeau can have the charges dropped , and then throw his Justice Minister under the bus by demoting her to Veterans Affairs .


Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Matt Steele

Well at least he wouldn't be part of a hate group.
Higgs = CoR
Kris Austin = Anglo Society

David Amos
David Amos
@Marc Martin Cry me a river

David Amos
David Amos
@Matt Steele Catch up she just quit










Colin Seeley  
Mack Leigh
What a sad , sad looking bunch !!! Hopefully we have seen the last of these scoundrels " leading " our province..


Matt Steele
Matt Steele
@Mack Leigh .....Yes , they certainly do appear pretty glum in that photo....Premier Higgs must have drained their taxpayer funded trough after Gallant lost the election for them .

Paul Bourgoin
Paul Bourgoin
@Mack Leigh
Who do you think leads this province?
Politicians??????????????????

Cleve Gallant
Cleve Gallant
@Paul Bourgoin Don’t know but you can fill us in ,

Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Mack Leigh

Kris Austin and Higgs are gone ?

David Amos
David Amos
@Matt Steele "Premier Higgs must have drained their taxpayer funded trough after Gallant lost the election for them"

Nope

David Amos
David Amos
@Marc Martin "Kris Austin and Higgs are gone ?"

Dream on










Colin Seeley  
Troy Murray
Oink oink, lead us to the trough


David Amos
David Amos
@Troy Murray Tut Tut Tut Now play nicey nicey











Colin Seeley  
Gabriel Boucher
Quite a resume. A cabinet minister for Shawn Graham's government and a justice minister for Gallant's government. What could possibly go wrong... *sarcasm*


David Amos
David Amos
@Gabriel Boucher "What could possibly go wrong"

Methinks the temporary leader of the opposition could not make something go wrong even if he wanted to He can only expose the wrongs or continue to cover them up N'esy Pas? *NO sarcasm*










Harold Benson 
Harold Benson
Scraping the bottom pretty hard.....


Mack Leigh
Mack Leigh
@Harold Benson

I would say they have now gone subterranean !!

David Amos
David Amos
@Harold Benson Methinks Sam can name a few who would be much worse at the job N'esy Pas?









Colin Seeley  
Marc LeBlanc
I can't think of anything funny to say...
can I get some help here?


Stephen Long
Stephen Long
@Marc LeBlanc I know Marc, why not say something controversial instead?

David Amos
David Amos
@Marc LeBlanc Welcome to the circus just sit back and enjoy the show









Colin Seeley  
Lou Bell
Atcon / Franco Phonie Games . Must be some hidden " unfinished business " we haven't yet heard about ! Surprised SANB Prof Savoie wasn't named !


Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Lou Bell

Gallant was part of Atcon ?

David Amos
David Amos
@Lou Bell "Must be some hidden " unfinished business " we haven't yet heard about"

Methinks you know as well as I that its my lawsuit in Federal Court N'esy Pas?

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Longtime MLA Denis Landry elected interim Liberal leader

Denis Landry was first elected in 1995 and served as a justice minister in the Brian Gallant government


Denis Landry was chosen interim Liberal leader Tuesday by fellow MLAs in the party. (Shane Fowler/CBC)

The only member of the legislature who served alongside former premier Frank McKenna is the new interim leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Party.

Denis Landry, first elected as the MLA for Centre-Péninsule in 1995, when McKenna won his third and last majority, will lead the party until Liberal members choose a new leader on June 22.

He replaces former premier Brian Gallant, who officially resigned as leader Tuesday.



Landry said his priority will be to boost the morale of party members still smarting over the failure to win a majority in last September's election.
"There are people who felt a bit left aside for whatever reason, and that's what I'm going to do — go talk to people on the ground and see what we can do to put party members in a good mood," he said.

The former logger, known around the legislature for his plainspoken manner, said he was looking forward to the challenge.

"I've never been afraid of work. I enjoy hard work."

Although he'll hold the leadership for only a short time, Landry would not rule out trying to engineer the defeat of the Progressive Conservative minority government this spring.

"That's something we'll have to figure out. We'll go through the session … and from there we'll see what happens. It's hard for me to predict what's going to happen. The budget could be so good or so bad. We'll have to decide as a caucus what we're going to do."


Former New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant resigned officially as leader of the Liberal Party on Tuesday. (James West/The Canadian Press)
He said his biggest concerns about the March 19 budget are potential cuts. He pointed to more than $200 million in cancelled infrastructure spending in the PC capital budget delivered in December.

"Is there a need to do that? As far as I'm concerned, no," he said, noting the Liberal government ran a $67 million surplus in 2017-18.

"The finances of the province were not doing that bad."

The Liberals have 20 seats in the legislature compared with 22 for the PCs. Speaker Daniel Guitard was elected as a Liberal but does not vote except to break a tie. The Green Party and the People's Alliance hold three seats each.

Landry said while he agrees most often with the Greens, "I'm not scared of working with the Alliance or even collaborating with the Tories" to make the legislature function.
Landry was chosen by party MLAs in a closed-door vote Tuesday morning. He said the caucus decided not to reveal who else sought the interim leadership or how many votes each candidate won.

Landry was defeated in the 2003 provincial election but was re-elected in 2006 and has been an MLA ever since. He was a minister in the governments of Shawn Graham and Brian Gallant and now represents the riding of Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-Saint-Isidore.

He said he would draw on the examples of all the party leaders and premiers he has encountered in his long career in figuring out how to lead the Liberals.

"There are things that I've liked that have been done, some things that I don't like that have been done," he said. "I'm going to try to stay in the middle track of that."

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Jacques Poitras
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Jacques Poitras has been CBC's provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick since 2000. Raised in Moncton, he also produces the CBC political podcast Spin Reduxit.
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