CBC is blocking me already and my name isn't even on a ballot yet

https://twitter.com/DavidRayAmos/with_replies 



David Raymond Amos‏ @DavidRayAmos 
Replying to @DavidRayAmos @Kathryn98967631 and 49 others
Methinks everybody knows my opinions of Blaine Higgs, David Coon, Kris Austin, Jennifer Mackenzie and the evil ex NDP dudes Dominic Cardy and Kelly Lamrock have not changed
N'esy Pas?

http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/08/cbc-is-blocking-me-already-and-my-name.html

#TrumpKnew #TrudeauMustGo  #nbpoli  #cdnpoli

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-progessive-conservative-acadian-support-1.4792502




PC leader Blaine Higgs gave a 10-minute speech in French at Kevin Haché's nomination meeting. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)


---------- Original message ----------
From: "Auto-reply from kevhache@nb.aibn.com" <kevhache@nb.aibn.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 18:20:04 -0400
Subject: Re: Too Funny I just talked to Claude Landry Elvy Robichaud’s
old Chief of Staff He forgot what went down in 2004 and the emails I
sent him since
To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com

Bonjour

Je serais absent du bureau du 6 aout au   22 aout inclusivement.  Le
bureau sera fermé du 6 au 19 aout inclusivement pour les vacances d
ete et sera ouvert a partir du 20 aout.  Bonne Vacance a tous

Je retournerais votre courriel a mon retour.

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Monday, 22 January 2018

Mr Higgs and Dominic Cardy are trying to learn how to herd cats and even the clowns are laughing at the nonsense

---------- Original message ----------
From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)" <Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 05:35:32 +0000
Subject: RE: Mr Higgs and Dominic Cardy are trying to learn how to
herd cats and even the clowns are laughing at the nonsense
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

Thank you for writing to the Premier of New Brunswick.  Please be
assured  that your email will be reviewed.

If this is a media request, please forward your email to
media-medias@gnb.camedia-medias@gnb.ca
>.  Thank you!

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Nous vous remercions d’avoir communiqué avec le premier ministre du
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Si ceci est une demande médiatique, prière de la transmettre à
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 01:35:24 -0400
Subject: Mr Higgs and Dominic Cardy are trying to learn how to herd cats and 
even the clowns are laughing at the nonsense
To: premier <premier@gnb.ca>, "brian.gallant" <brian.gallant@gnb.ca>,
"greg.byrne" <greg.byrne@gnb.ca>, "Jack.Keir" <Jack.Keir@gnb.ca>,
"victor.boudreau" <victor.boudreau@gnb.ca>, "jeff.carr" <jeff.carr@gnb.ca>,
"Benoit.Bourque" <Benoit.Bourque@gnb.ca>, "jeff.carr" <jeff.carr@bellaliant.net>,
"Dominic.Cardy" <Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca>, "Hamish.Wright" <Hamish.Wright@gnb.ca>, "blaine.higgs" <blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, "Roger.L.Melanson" <Roger.L.Melanson@gnb.ca>, "hugh.flemming" <hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>, "jody.carr"  <jody.carr@gnb.ca>,
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 "Ginette.PetitpasTaylor" <Ginette.PetitpasTaylor@parl.gc.ca>,
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 pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Gerald.Butts" <Gerald.Butts@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, "jake.stewart" <jake.stewart@gnb.ca>, "bruce.northrup" <bruce.northrup@gnb.ca>,
oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, "David.Coon" <David.Coon@gnb.ca>,
andre <andre@jafaust.com>, "martin.gaudet" <martin.gaudet@fredericton.ca>,
 "Jacques.Poitras" <Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, "Connell.Smith" <Connell.Smith@cbc.ca>

http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2018/01/mr-higgs-and-dominic-cardy-are-trying.html

Monday, 22 January 2018

Mr Higgs and Dominic Cardy are trying to learn how to herd cats and
even the clowns are laughing at the nonsense

---------- Original message ----------
From: "Cardy, Dominic (LEG)" <Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 13:32:12 +0000
Subject: RE: Methinks Higgs needs better help than mindless EX NDP
dudes if he gonna defeat the LIEbranos N'esy Pas Premeir Gallant?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

We're very glad you enjoyed them! Please give Mr. Higgs a pat from all of us. DC
________________________________________
From: David Amos [motomaniac333@gmail.com]
Sent: December-05-17 8:50 AM
To: Cardy, Dominic (LEG); Higgs, Blaine (LEG); leanne.murray;
Flemming, Hugh (LEG); Stewart, Jake (LEG); Jody.Wilson-Raybould; mcu;
bill.pentney; newsroom; Wright, Hamish (LEG); Brown, Nick (ECO/BCE);
Rousselle, Serge Hon. (ELG/EGL)); Bourque, Hon. Benoît (DH/MS);
Doherty, Ed (LEG); Robert. Jones; Dave.Young; kelly; law; LAW SOCIETY
NB; Murray, Charles (Ombud)
Cc: David Amos; leader; Coon, David (LEG); elizabeth.may; Gallant,
Premier Brian (PO/CPM); Byrne, Greg (PO/CPM); Keir, Jack (PO/CPM); Len
Hoyt; postur; postur; rmellish
Subject: Methinks Higgs needs better help than mindless EX NDP dudes
if he gonna defeat the LIEbranos N'esy Pas Premeir Gallant?

Somebody should tell the Dummy Cardy to scroll to the bottom of the blog

FYI The nasty neo con treats were fed to a stray cat that hangs around
my latest abode.

BTW I have named the ugly old pussy Mr Higgs in his honour

http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/11/yo-blaine-higgs-i-just-called-and-tried.html


---------- Original message ----------
From: "Cardy, Dominic (LEG)" Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 19:59:00 +0000
Subject: RE: Yo Dominic Cardy If so then you neo cons best start
feeding your Butter Tarts to your pussy cat named Puffin because they
are clearly rotting your brains N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Cc: "Wright, Hamish (LEG)" Hamish.Wright@gnb.ca

Dear David,

Did you get your package? I hope it went to the right address and that
you felt, on eating your tasty Tim Horton snacks, that we are all part
of one loving human family.

Merry Christmas and more buttery goodness to you and yours,

Dominic

PS. Puffin says "meow"!
________________________________________
From: David Amos [motomaniac333@gmail.com]
Sent: December-02-17 9:56 PM
To: Cardy, Dominic (LEG); Higgs, Blaine (LEG); leanne.murray;
Flemming, Hugh (LEG); Stewart, Jake (LEG); Jody.Wilson-Raybould; mcu;
bill.pentney; newsroom; Wright, Hamish (LEG); Brown, Nick (ECO/BCE);
Rousselle, Serge Hon. (ELG/EGL)); Bourque, Hon. Benoît (DH/MS);
Doherty, Ed (LEG); Robert. Jones; Dave.Young; kelly; law; LAW SOCIETY
NB; Murray, Charles (Ombud)
Cc: David Amos; leader; Coon, David (LEG); elizabeth.may; Gallant,
Premier Brian (PO/CPM); Byrne, Greg (PO/CPM); Keir, Jack (PO/CPM); Len
Hoyt; postur; postur; rmellish
Subject: Yo Dominic Cardy If so then you neo cons best start feeding
your Butter Tarts to your pussy cat named Puffin because they are
clearly rotting your brains N'esy Pas?

http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/12/in-1966-cohen-told-young-cbc-host-named.html

---------- Original message ----------
From: Karen.Ludwig@parl.gc.ca
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:39:46 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Mr Higgs and Dominic Cardy are trying to learn how
to herd cats and even the clowns are laughing at the nonsense
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com

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for New Brunswick Southwest. Please know that we have received your
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 09:39:39 -0400
Subject: Fwd: Mr Higgs and Dominic Cardy are trying to learn how to herd cats and
even the clowns are laughing at the nonsense
To: "Leanne.Fitch" <Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca>, "bruce.fitch" <bruce.fitch@gnb.ca>, "carl.urquhart" <carl.urquhart@gnb.ca>, "leanne.murray" <leanne.murray@mcinnescooper.com>, "len.hoyt" <len.hoyt@mcinnescooper.com>, jbosnitch <jbosnitch@gmail.com>,
"Karen.Ludwig" <Karen.Ludwig@parl.gc.ca>, "Katie.Telford" <Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>, "Robert. Jones" <Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>,
"darrow.macintyre" <darrow.macintyre@cbc.ca>, david <david@lutz.nb.ca>,
 "David.Akin" <David.Akin@globalnews.ca>, "david.eidt" <david.eidt@gnb.ca>,
 nmoore <nmoore@bellmedia.ca>, "steve.murphy" <steve.murphy@ctv.ca>,
"Stephen.Horsman" <Stephen.Horsman@gnb.ca>,
"Stephane.vaillancourt" <Stephane.vaillancourt@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
 "Alaina.Lockhart" <Alaina.Lockhart@parl.gc.ca>, tj <tj@burkelaw.ca>,
 "TJ.Harvey" <TJ.Harvey@parl.gc.ca>, kelly <kelly@lamrockslaw.com>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>

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Monday, 22 January 2018

Mr Higgs and Dominic Cardy are trying to learn how to herd cats and
even the clowns are laughing at the nonsense

 https://twitter.com/DavidRayAmos/with_replies 

David Raymond Amos‏ @DavidRayAmos 

Replying to @DavidRayAmos @Kathryn98967631 and 49 others
 Methinks leopards do not change their spots and desperate LIEbrano politicians and their CBC spin doctors do desperate things N'esy Pas?

http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/08/cbc-is-blocking-me-already-and-my-name.html

#TrumpKnew #TrudeauMustGo  #nbpoli  #cdnpoli

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/grenier-nbpolltracker-start-1.4792065

New Brunswick's provincial campaign to kick off as a toss-up

CBC's New Brunswick Poll Tracker suggests Brian Gallant's Liberals narrowly favoured over Blaine Higgs's PCs

Éric Grenier · CBC News · Posted: Aug 21, 2018 4:00 AM AT

96 Comments Plus many deleted after publication
 Commenting is now closed for this story.

 
Joey Bender

you click on the poll tracker and it show 46 % of people feel a Liberal majority where as 38% think the Cons will win a majority

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David Amos

@Joey Bender Who cares what CBC claims?

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David Amos

@Joey Bender Methinks it seems that CBC cares about my comments embarrassing their all knowing pollster N'esy Pas?

 
Joey Bender

Hope Andy shows up that will hand the majority to the Liberals

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David Amos

@Joey Bender Me Too However doubt he will make much difference one way or the other. Most folks will simply wonder who that Andy dude is N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@Joey Bender Methinks Andy has more fish to fry overseas than bother to worry about NB His puppet masters already know what ridings they will likely get back in the Maritimes 2019 N'esy Pas?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/andrew-scheer-india-trip-1.4793154

  
Awistoyus Nahasthay

So Mainstreet is the only polling company giving the Cons an edge.
Well, that's hardly a surprise, is it? These are the same clowns who continued to belligerently proclaim the right wing Bill Smith was going to handily defeat the more centrist Naheed Nenshi in the last Calgary civic election.
Their polling became such an issue during that campaign it garnered national headlines and, after the election showed how wrong they were, an investigation.
At the conclusion of that investigation the head of Mainstreet was forced to admit their methodology had been seriously flawed and that their badly skewed polls had a negative affect on democracy by significantly impacting who people decided to vote for.
Now here they are once again, the lone outlier giving the edge to a right wing party. Given their track record I question why the media should be reporting their results at all, it seems they may be reverting to old habits...

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David Amos

@Awistoyus Nahasthay Methinks that most folks in New Brunswick don't care what the polls say anyway N'esy Pas?

  
Rosco holt

Don't care about polls, won't vote blue or red.

David Amos

@Rosco holt Good for you

  
Scott McLaughlin

liberals have free stuff for everyone this summer and baskets of cash for everyone they meet. They'll be nowhere to be seen next year if they hold power, which is a BIG "IF".

David Amos

@Scott McLaughlin I agree

  
mo bennett

NB provincial campaign to kick off as taxpayers toss up their cookies and wallets to vote for more inept.

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David Amos

@mo bennett YUP

 
Craig O'Donnell

Wild spending announcements, sometimes for things that haven't even been budgeted for, early attacks on Higgs... one would have to have their head in the sand or somewhere else to not acknowledge that the Liberals are showing signs of desperation.

David Amos

@Craig O'Donnell "Liberals are showing signs of desperation."

YUP

  
Samuel Porter

atcon 6 still need to pay their dues. Stop spraying NB forests and blueberry fields. Make a difference.

David Amos

@Samuel Porter Perhaps

  
Michael G. L. Geraldson

With an election seemingly this close every vote counts. I hope everybody who can vote will do so. The 65% voter turnout for the last election was disappointing to say the least.

David Amos

@Michael G. L. Geraldson "I hope everybody who can vote will do so."

Me Too

 

William Ben

The province is close to bankruptcy I pity the party that wins as they will be in a lose lose position right out of the gate.

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David Amos

@William Ben Methinks like most folks they simply don't care as the argue for the best seats on the Gravy Train N'esy Pas?

 

  
Marc LeBlanc

This election will likely be decided by the undecideds.Those wonderful people who vote on the issues rather than by blind party allegiance.Will Chris Collins win as an independent or will he split the vote and enable a Con to win?Will Moira Murphy's revenge run against the Liberals be successful?(and don't tell me that's anything but that)Will Courtney Pringle-Carver's ties to Atlantic Lottery sway voters away (she doesn't mention where she works in her bio and we still don't know which managers the AG found were approving their own expense accounts)This could come down to some of the other three parties deciding who takes power.....and that might not be a bad thing

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David Amos

@Marc LeBlanc Methinks everybody knows one thing for certain and that is it is gonna be a very interesting circus particularly after the recent success of the "Ford Nation" and the yapping of Maxime Bernier N'esy Pas?

  
sue black

NB rivals Alberta as most right wing population in nation.80% supporting the con/lib corporate duopoly proof of that

David Amos

@sue black I disagree

 
Maxim Verite

All will be fine providing the Conservatives and Liberals don't split the vote evenly, leaving the Greenies or the NDP with the balance of power. We see how well that's working out in BC.

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David Amos

@Maxim Verite "leaving the Greenies or the NDP with the balance of power."

Methinks if folks seek true that is exactly what they should wish to happen much to your chagrin N'esy Pas?

Maxim Verite

@David Amos
Well again David, you can see how that's working out in BC, can't you? Unmitigated disaster. But hey if that's what you want .... vote Liberal.

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David Amos

@Maxim Verite Why would I vote liberal as I plan to run an Independent again? Methinks lot of folks recall my debates with the NDP leader Jennifer McKenzie N'esy Pas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cFOKT6TlSE

  
Allan J Whitney

Large foreign corporations convert beautiful New Brunswick forests into a veritable desert.
Is this an issue?

David Amos

@Allan J Whitney YUP

 

Marilyn Carr

Iam voting PANB they want to be fair to everyone...A government for the people by the people and they have many women candidates ...Sick of the same sit different day for the red and blue.

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David Amos

@Marilyn Carr Methinks more folks should think as you. Although I do not support the PANB you will be voting for someone other than a incumbent and everyone knows I wholeheartedly agree with that N'esy Pas?

 

Douglas James

If the CBC spent as much time covering the issues as it devotes to polls, New Brunswick would be far better off. What little journalism exists in this province is all that stands between good and bad government. Covering elections as horse races weakens democracy.

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David Amos

@Douglas James Welcome to the Circus

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David Amos

@Douglas James Methinks that whereas you are running in Saint John for David **** and being covered by his buddy Chucky Leblanc you should ask them blogger whether or not I ran against the NDP Jennifer McKenzie recently N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276

  

Matt Steele

Yes , it will be an interesting election . The danger is that Gallant's Liberals will try to get the Peoples Alliance and Higg's PCs to split the vote , thereby giving Gallant the win....it is a page right out of former Premier Frank McKenna's playbook when COR was around . Divide and conquer based on language .

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David Amos

@Matt Steele Methinks this stuff was pretty comical and the writ isn't even dropped yet N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/pc-party-people-s-alliance-explain-candidates-social-media-posts-1.4776783

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-ad-campaign-elections-nb-1.4788063

 
Neil Gardner

Does it really matter. Whether it' Lib or Con, it' still the Irving party.

David Amos

@Neil Gardner YUP

David Amos

@David Amos Methinks Dominic Leblanc must be nervous N'esy Pas?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/irving-pulp-paper-pollution-river-reversing-falls-1.4791471

  
Steve Hicken

I bet a real poll will show it a lot closer

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David Amos

@Steve Hicken Methinks we will know the true score in a month or so So in the "Mean" time why not just enjoy the circus as the politicians attack each other N'esy Pas?

 
stephen blunston

now if we could only have a party that had a platform to help the average NB'er and they do what they say they will. 1 of these clowns needs to make the hard choices to get budgets balanced before debt is outta control , and its almost there. we are taxed out and cant afford any more increases to taxes and fees

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David Amos

@stephen blunston "1 of these clowns needs to make the hard choices to get budgets balanced before debt is outta control"

Methinks you see the circus for what it is N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@stephen blunston Methinks the plot thickens N'esy Pas?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/liberal-budget-surplus-new-brunswick-1.4792881

  
Jim Johnson

Certainly hoping that the Liberals get ousted in NB. It is time for the Liberals to lose their grip in the Maritimes.

David Amos

@Jim Johnson I concur

  
Phil Nadeau

For the first time in my life, I may have to throw my vote away for the upcoming election...As it stands for my riding, there's only Lib and PC candidates running and I'm not voting for any of them. I don't see how NB can change with Lib or PC running the province. The other parties just don't have the numbers to even be the "official opposition" at the Legislative assembly. And no, I'm not putting my name in to run. It's not for me !

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David Amos

@Phil Nadeau "And no, I'm not putting my name in to run"

Perhaps you should reconsider if only to register your indignation

  
Rosco holt

The Cons and Libs don't have any vision for advancing the province economically, except giving everything to big corps.

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David Amos

@Rosco holt Methinks it is just more of the same old same old N'esy Pas?

  
Ralph Green

I will be voting the panb, im done with the provincial conservatives and would never vote liberal. And next year ill be voting conservative to get rid of that maniac in Ottawa, what a disaster he is, worse than his old man.

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David Amos

@Ralph Green "im done with the provincial conservatives and would never vote liberal."

Methinks that many would agree that you are not alone and the liberals are banking on it in the hope that it will split the right vote and they will win another mandate by default N'esy Pas?

  
Paul Krumm

The best result would be petition to the federal government requesting that as NB cannot find a single responsible politician (let alone a statesman) the federal government step in and declare NB bankrupt (which it is).

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David Amos

@Paul Krumm Methinks thou doth jest too much N'esy Pas?

  



Rick Sanchez

E.Grenier and the Propaganda Arm of the Trudeau Liberal Regime™ (formerly the CBC) shamelessly cheerleading for Liberals be they provincial or federal.

ABTL 2019

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David Amos

@Rick Sanchez YUP

David Amos

@Rick Sanchez Gee I did not know YUP was banned by CBC

  

Matthew Locke

NB debt over 14 Billion. Wow! Mr. Higgs will have to start rebuilding the province from the ground up. Hats off to ya Mr. Higgs!

David Amos

@Matthew Locke Methinks Mr Higgs is part of the problem N'esy Pas?

  

Neil MacLean

Personally I find climate change to be THE most urgent issue. I find the Greens out to lunch with their opposition to pipelines because we know you don't cure addiction by going after control of supply - instead you need to diminish demand which means carbon tax. Meanwhile the Liberals are totally tepid on carbon taxes and the Conservatives for all their undoubted fiscal merit are utterly bankrupt in environmental policy. For me it is hard to see who to support - in most areas I like the Greens and NDP. I feel bad about not being able to support the PC's because Higgs would be good with the money. But fracking would be a disaster in multiple ways - costs to repair roads, stay methane emissions hurting climate and also a long term threat to aquifers as frack fluid very slowly rises from the depths due to differential density versus ground fluids. Those who say it won't happen can't specify frack fluid density because it keeps changing and can't specify ground fluid density because we haven't got exhaustive underground surveys. So they say don't worry about climate change and wrecking our roads and just cross your fingers about our aquifers. For those reasons I can't vote PC.

David Amos

@Neil MacLean Methinks the Ghosts of Maurice Strong and Trudeau The Elder are laughing are laughing pretty hard over the "Climate Change" game they dreamed up N'esy Pas?

 

  

Dale MacNaughton

NDP in fourth spot. Looks like Jagmeet isn’t getting it done there.

David Amos

@Dale MacNaughton Who is Jagmeet?

  

Michael Milne

Doesn't look good for Gallant, usually the party in power with the same leader needs a good lead to get to another term.

David Amos

@Michael Milne Who is Gallant?

  

Dwight Williams

All the evidence you need to know that the average Canadian is too complacent and not smart enough:

They alternate between blue-label neoliberals and red-label neoliberals and expect things to change.

The only thing that changes is the shape of the noses in the trough.

David Amos

@Dwight Williams YUP

  

Jim Cyr

It most certainly is NOT a "toss up". New Brunswickers love them some liberalism, and Liberals it shall be!.....no matter what. They are LOCKED IN.

David Amos

@Jim Cyr Methinsk it would not be wise to bet on it yet N'esy Pas?

 
Luke Armstrong

Has Premier Gallant ever been held accountable for the property tax scandal? A huge thorn to have in one's side.

David Amos

@Luke Armstrong YUP

 
Michelle DuBois

Purge the Liberals from every corner of the country

David Amos

@Michelle DuBois Methinks Trudeau The Younger is doing his best to make your wish come true N'esy Pas?

 
Gary MacKay

Save our river ferries

David Amos

@Gary MacKay Methinks everybody knows I agree N'esy Pas?

 
Greg Miller

Toss-up--that's exactly what it is! Any point in voting?

David Amos

@Greg Miller Of course

 
Craig Nettles

Cue the Trudeau parachute funding announcement for.........

New Irving something.

David Amos

@Craig Nettles Methinks Trudeau the Younger no longer cares about the "Have Not Provonce" clearly he has lost his patience with the people he purportedly serves etlsewhere N'esy Pas?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-defends-racism-comments-1.4792040

'My opinion has changed': Higgs addresses COR past in bid to win French support

PC leader says his perspective on language rights has changed over the last 30 years

Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Aug 21, 2018 5:00 AM AT

43 Comments
 Commenting is now closed for this story.

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David Amos

Methinks Jennifer McKenzie and everybody else knows why I am enjoying the circus N'esy Pas?

If not go figure

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276

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David Amos

@David Amos Methinks it interesting that CBC blocks a comment with a link to their own article after it had been read N'esy Pas?

 
wayne guitard

Odd that an Anglophone politician has to apologize for belonging to COR, but no francophone politicians, especially Liberals, have to apologize for belonging to the separatist Acadian Party. Double standards are nothing new in this province with the left wing media coverage.

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David Amos

@wayne guitard CBC is blocking me already and my name isn't even on a ballot yet

SarahRose Werner

@wayne guitard - When did this Acadian Party exist? I've lived in New Brunswick for 20 years and have never heard of it.

SarahRose Werner

@SarahRose Werner - Okay, found it in Wikipedia. It disbanded in 1986, 32 years ago, so really, who cares? Is there anyone still actively involved in politics now who was a member back then? By contrast, the COR didn't disband until 2002. There are still people actively involved in politics who were members. Francophone NB-ers are right to call them to account.

David Amos 

 @SarahRose Werner Methinks its best to just admit the dude was correct N'esy Pas

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David Amos

@wayne guitard Methinks that many would agree that the liberals are banking on the anglophone argument will split the right vote and they will win another mandate by default N'esy Pas?

  
Rose Michaud

He does what his Irving overlords tell him. (so do the liberals, but this is a bit more obvious)

Colin Seeley

@Rose Michaud

Yeah !

Like people who work for Irving don’t count eh !

Perhaps NB needs to chose to elect only those who will oppose the Irving’s.

David Amos

@Colin Seeley Methinks that will not be one of your political heroes N'esy Pas?

Colin Seeley

@David Amos

Do svidaniya Comrade

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David Amos

@Colin Seeley Methinks that you do not have the first clue as to who I am N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@Colin Seeley Methinks CBC picked a bad day to side with you against me N'esy Pas?

  
Daniel White

How good was Mr Higgs at reaching out prior to this election bid. He must have had quite the revelation. Truth will set you free. Perhaps the start of a new religion?

David Amos

@Daniel White "Truth will set you free."

Methinks speaking truth to power gets one locked up Everybody knows I learned that the hard way N'esy Pas?

  
Redmond O'Hanlon

Another politician telling people what they want to hear before an election. A minority government is almost a given this election. Red and Blue have failed this province and it would appear that the Green Party and/or PAP will hold the balance of power.

David Amos 

@Redmond O'Hanlon "A minority government is almost a given this election."

 
Matt Steele

Sounds like the Liberals are going to try to use language as a wedge issue in order to gain votes ; much the same as Frank McKenna did when he was Premier . Politicians should be focused on debt reduction , and economic development , and put language on the back burner for a while . With a nearly 14.5 BILLION dollar debt , and one of the oldest populations in Canada....N.B. is in crisis . I believe the city Detroit was at around the 18 billion debt mark when they were forced into bankruptcy ; I wonder if the same could happen to N.B. with Gallant's out of control spending ? N.B. will have to pay the piper eventually.....

David Amos

@Matt Steele "N.B. will have to pay the piper eventually."

YUP

  
Jeff LeBlanc

We need a candidate with the stones to run on a platform of scrapping official bilingualism.

David Amos

@Jeff LeBlanc YUP

 
Edward J Clement

Talk about posturing for the election. What a joke.

David Amos

@Edward J Clement YUP

  
AJ Maisey

Higgs had a chance prior to this sad attempt to garner a few French votes while alienating most of the English voters who speak with their vote only.

David Amos

@AJ Maisey Methinks leopards do not change their spots and desperate politicians do desperate things N'esy Pas?

  
Mario Doucet

OB is the single biggest mistake ever adopted by government and needs to be abolished.

David Amos

@Mario Doucet What is OB?

Denis Thomas

@David Amos Official Bilingualism

  
David Stairs

This is why we need a complete change in this Province..We need a government for New Brunswicker's,not a government for special interest groups...I see nothing but division with the current parties...if you want to save your culture or your language,feel free to do so, at your own interest and expense..not mine...I want to see unity not division...let's try this and see what happens...

David Amos

@David Stairs "if you want to save your culture or your language,feel free to do so, at your own interest and expense..not mine."

I concur

SarahRose Werner

Higgs changed his opinion when - and only because - he realized he had to do so in order to have a shot at being premier.

David Amos

@SarahRose Werner YUP

David Amos

@David Amos Methinks this stuff was pretty comical and the writ isn't even dropped yet N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/pc-party-people-s-alliance-explain-candidates-social-media-posts-1.4776783

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-ad-campaign-elections-nb-1.4788063

 
Lou Bell

Alwards government PROMISED an end to patronage and patronage appointments and was worse than ever ! Not that Gallant and his " chosen generals " running the show are any better ! Take a good look at what they have to offer . One has sold out anglophones and the other promises to if elected .

David Amos

@Lou Bell Methinks Premier Hatfield sold out the Anglophones in New Brunswick a long time ago when he made a deal with Trudeau The Elder N'esy Pas?

 
Dan Lee

Well...Well...is this where all the old Cor members meet..............sureeeee looks like it.

David Amos

@Dan Lee Methinks everybody knows I have never belonged any political party nor have ever voted N'esy Pas?

 
Fred Brewer

Some people will do anything to get elected.

David Amos

@Fred Brewer "Some people will do anything to get elected."

I agree

Methinks Jennifer McKenzie, Brian Gallant, Blaine Higgs, Kris Austin and David **** are fine examples to support your opinion. I rust that every other political animal in New Brunswick knows why I am enjoying the circus N'esy Pas?

If not go figure

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276

 
Samuel Porter

The atcon six has yet to pay for their misdeeds. Carte blanche for ripping off NB taxpayers. Stop spraying NB forests, and blueberry fields. Make a difference with your vote.

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David Amos

@Samuel Porter Methinks everybody knows one thing for certain and that is it is gonna be a very interesting circus particularly after the recent success of the "Ford Nation" and the yapping of Maxime Bernier N'esy Pas?

New Brunswick's provincial campaign to kick off as a toss-up

CBC's New Brunswick Poll Tracker suggests Brian Gallant's Liberals narrowly favoured over Blaine Higgs's PCs

Éric Grenier · CBC News · Posted: Aug 21, 2018 4:00 AM AT

Brian Gallant's Liberals start the New Brunswick campaign ahead in the polls, but not enough to ensure re-election. (Stephen MacGillivray/Canadian Press)

With just days to go before New Brunswick's provincial election campaign officially gets started, the outcome at this stage looks little better than a toss-up — just another indication that the next five weeks will be decisive in determining whether the province defeats its fourth government in a row or gives an outgoing premier a second mandate for the first time in over a decade.

According to the CBC's New Brunswick Poll Tracker — an aggregation of all publicly available polling data and seat projection model — Brian Gallant's Liberals start the campaign as the early favourite. But narrowly so.

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With 39.2 per cent support, the Liberals are only a few points ahead of the Progressive Conservatives under Blaine Higgs, who trail with 35.7 per cent support. (See full methodology here.)

But in a province that could be moving back toward its traditional linguistic split — the Liberals doing best among francophones, the PCs best among anglophones — each party's support provincewide only tells a part of the story.

According to the Poll Tracker's estimates, the Liberals and PCs are in a position where both parties could emerge with the same or a similar number of seats.

The projections put the two parties deadlocked at 24 seats apiece, with a range of between 17 and 33 seats for the Liberals and between 16 and 31 seats for the PCs being the most plausible outcome if an election were held today.

The slightly better range for the Liberals make them the slim favourite.

If these numbers hold through to Sept. 24, when New Brunswickers cast their ballots, the Liberals would be given a 48 per cent chance of winning the most seats, compared to 43 per for the Tories.
In the remaining scenarios, the two parties end in a tie — giving David Coon of the Greens, and potentially Kris Austin, the People's Alliance leader — the balance of power in a minority legislature.

Outsized importance for 3rd parties?

The early estimates for the provincial campaign indicate that the smaller third parties could play a significant role. The Poll Tracker puts the Greens at 9.4 per cent support, with Jennifer McKenzie's New Democrats and the People's Alliance averaging 7.9 and 7.3 per cent support, respectively.

The Greens and NDP have been holding steady in the polls for some time, which would be good news for Coon's re-election chances but not for the NDP's hopes of winning its first seat since 2003.
A new trend in the polls, however, has been the increased support for the People's Alliance.

The three most recent polls by the Corporate Research Associates have awarded the party three or four per cent when in the past the party has not polled better than one or two per cent.

People's Alliance moves a titch

Recent surveys by Mainstreet Research and MQO Research have found support for "others" at seven and nine per cent, respectively. This would primarily be support for the People's Alliance, but would also include voters intending to cast a ballot for an independent candidate.

"Others" has also been a refuge for undecided voters in polls.

But if the People's Alliance maintains some of these higher numbers, Austin could have a decent shot at getting into the legislative assembly. Austin fell just 26 votes short of winning in Fredericton-Grand Lake in 2014, when the People's Alliance received only 2.1 per cent of the vote province wide.

Even if there isn't a minority government in the next legislature, these smaller parties will still have a role to play in deciding whether that government is shaded red or blue.

In a close race, those New Brunswickers supporting the Greens, NDP and People's Alliance — right now totalling about one-quarter of the electorate — are voters the Liberals and PCs need to have on their sides.

Varying results

While the polls are generally in broad agreement about where the three smaller parties sit, there is less consensus on the relative strength of the Liberals and PCs.

The three most recent surveys — conducted by CRA in May, Mainstreet in mid-July and MQO in the last half of July and the first days of August — showed significantly different results.

The Liberals have ranged from 38 to 45 per cent and the PCs between 31 and 39 per cent in these surveys. While that is not an abnormal amount of fluctuation considering the margin of error and different methodologies used by the three polling companies, the results would produce significantly different election outcomes.

More data needed

The 14-point gap for the Liberals recorded by CRA would re-elect Gallant with a huge majority government.

The eight-point margin in MQO's survey would see Gallant re-elected to the same majority he received in 2014, while Mainstreet's one-point PC edge would likely see the Tories in majority territory instead.
The advantages of using an aggregate of polls like the Poll Tracker is to try to make sense of these differences, but the variation in the surveys could simply be chalked up to when they were conducted. More data is needed to get a better understanding of where things really stand.

But it is clear that the Liberals cannot take their re-election for granted. Campaigns really do matter. The next five weeks will prove that.

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Éric Grenier

Politics and polls

Éric Grenier is a senior writer and the CBC's polls analyst. He was the founder of ThreeHundredEight.com and has written for The Globe and Mail, Huffington Post Canada, The Hill Times, Le Devoir, and L’actualité.

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'My opinion has changed': Higgs addresses COR past in bid to win French support

PC leader says his perspective on language rights has changed over the last 30 years

Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Aug 21, 2018 5:00 AM AT 

PC leader Blaine Higgs gave a 10-minute speech in French at Kevin Haché's nomination meeting. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)




Thirty years ago, Blaine Higgs probably never pictured himself doing what he was doing last Tuesday night: standing at attention among a crowd of Acadians as they sang their national hymn, Ave Maris Stella, in a village hall outside Caraquet.

The provincial Progressive Conservative leader likely also never imagined he'd deliver a 10-minute speech to Acadians, entirely in French.

But that was the scene in Bertrand on the night of Aug. 14 as PCs gathered to officially nominate their candidate for the riding of Caraquet in next month's provincial election.

The table is part of the election strategy that Higgs hopes will let him engineer a PC majority that includes MLAs from francophone New Brunswick.

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Two star candidates

"Every government needs an Acadian voice," says Robert Gauvin, the party's candidate in Lameque-Shippagan-Miscou. "We're here and we have to be heard."

Robert Gauvin, the PC party’s candidate in Lameque-Shippagan-Miscou, says Acadians are here and need to be heard. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)​

Gauvin is one of two star candidates running for the party in the Acadian Peninsula. The actor and performer is the son of the late former PC MLA Jean Gauvin.

The other is Kevin Haché, a bilingual lawyer and the mayor of Caraquet.

The two men face different challenges. Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou has gone PC more often than not in recent decades, and the party lost it by just 44 votes in the last election.

Caraquet, meanwhile, is a Liberal stronghold that almost never elects Conservatives. In 2014, the Liberal candidate there almost tripled the PC vote.

Some voters convinced

But both Gauvin and Haché share the same challenge in this election: convincing voters to look past Higgs's involvement 30 years ago with the Confederation of Regions (COR) party, a movement that campaigned on repealing official bilingualism.

Last week in Bertrand, Higgs confronted the issue directly.

"Over the last 30 years, I've discovered our province," he said in French. "I've learned that when we look outside our own party and our own community, we learn things. I've learned that people can have different experiences."

PC leader Blaine Higgs speaks with party supporters at a recent nomination meeting in Bertrand, N.B. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)​Higgs told the crowd that three decades ago, he hadn't travelled widely in New Brunswick.

"I have a different perspective on things today. … I believe that all New Brunswickers, French and English, have the opportunity to speak their own language and to learn another one. My opinion has changed over the last 30 years."

Continuing in French, Higgs added: "Our province is a better place because we've had the courage to be an officially bilingual province and to find a goal that's common to two great cultures … Francophones, listen to me carefully: I will not leave you behind."

Not perfect

The partisan crowd lapped it up, giving Higgs — who spoke no French when he won the PC leadership two years ago —credit for making the effort.

"Tonight he certainly did his best to show people that he's trying really hard," said Riba Girouard-Riordon, who ran for the federal Conservatives in the last national election. "Even though it was not perfect, I understood his speech."

That's what francophones used to say about Richard Hatfield: as tortured as his French could be at times, his stubborn determination to speak the language won them over.

Those who attended the nomination meeting for Kevin Haché gave PC leader Blaine Higgs positive reviews for delivering a 10-minute speech in French. (Jacques Poitras/CBC) 

Still, there were some off-notes at the nomination meeting in Bertrand.

Haché refused to answer questions from CBC News about why the town of Caraquet, with him as mayor, went to court to stop Radio-Canada from obtaining travel and expense claims from AcadieNor, an economic development corporation set up by the municipality.

Those records showed a series of pricey travel and meal claims.

Work for community 

Meanwhile, former PC candidate Philippe Chiasson talked up Higgs by noting he was the finance minister in the Alward government when the initial agreement for the New Brunswick Naval Centre was signed.

When the financing fell through and the province had to take over the yard in 2016, the PC opposition blamed the Liberals.

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But on other local issues, such as employment insurance and the fate of the Caraquet hospital, Higgs sounded the right notes about listening to local communities and working to help them.

And on language politics, his comments are a sign to voters he has left his COR views behind, Haché said.

"He told me personally he doesn't want to change anything and he wants to fight for our rights," he said. "If I had any doubt in my soul that he was not going to respect me as a francophone, or me as an Acadian, I would never have ran for him."

Sit at table

Gauvin has a particular perspective on the issue: in 1994, his father, as a PC MLA, fought to block former COR candidates and MLAs from being welcomed back into the Tory party.

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"I agree with what my dad did back then," Gauvin said. "But he also told me, 'Robert, one day it might be your turn.' He told me, 'If you want to change things and make sure our rights are respected, you have to be sitting at the table.'"

Gauvin says he was skeptical of Higgs at first, "like everybody else who was Acadian," but was reassured when he learned the PC leader's four daughters went through French immersion and that he supported the construction of a francophone school in his riding of Quispamsis.

Slash programs

Liberal candidates in the region are making Higgs an issue, but not on the language front.

Wilfred Roussel, the Liberal MLA for Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou, says if the PCs are elected, they will cut programs. (Jacques Poitras/CBC) 

Wilfred Roussel, the Liberal MLA for Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou, says voters talk about Higg's COR past — "of course we hear about that" —but the message he's pushing is that a PC government would slash government programs.

"He doesn't have any programs for economic development," Roussell said. "He wants to do cuts. He doesn't want to put any money in programs. [The star candidates] will have to work with Mr. Higgs if he is ever elected, and that guy is only there to do cuts."

But a recent editorial in L'Acadie Nouvelle, the Caraquet-based French-language daily newspaper, gave Higgs credit for recruiting good candidates, including former MLAs Jeannot Volpé and Claude Landry, who can vouch for him in francophone regions.

"The worst scenario would be to wake up Sept. 25, the morning after the election, with a Higgs government that includes not a single francophone MLA," wrote editorialist François Gravel.

Voice needed

That's been a refrain of PC candidates in the past: if there's going to be a Conservative government, better to have a voice in it than to be excluded from it.

Previous PC leaders Richard Hatfield, Bernard Lord and David Alward won majority governments with strong francophone contingents.

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But in the last election the PCs were reduced to a single francophone MLA, Madeleine Dubé, who is not running in this campaign.

In what's expected to be a close election, the ability of Higgs and his candidates to win over voters in francophone ridings could determine whether he completes his conversion from his COR days — and leads a government with MLAs from both language groups.

About the Author

Jacques Poitras

Provincial Affairs reporter

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.