Former deputy premier Robert Gauvin spoke at a rally in Sussex on Feb. 17, 2020. (Photo: Brad Perry)
The New Brunswick Liberal party announced its candidate for Shediac Bay-Dieppe earlier today.
Robert Gauvin, most recently sat as an Independent in the Shippagan riding, “You don’t have any resources, and you want to represent your people. So you need more resources, That wasn’t for me, not a permanent thing. Then the PC party does not represent what I want to do, with my motives or my principles.”
Gauvin left the Progressive Conservatives in February in protest of health care reforms that would have closed several hospital emergency rooms in the province.
He says he has many connections to the riding of Shediac Bay-Dieppe, “I was born in Shippagan, but I worked three years in the school in Grande-Digue, which is in this riding. I live in this region. It has a lot of similarities, like fishing, and there’s also good community. There’s people from up North, so I feel right at home.”
Former Liberal Premier Brian Gallant was last to serve as MLA in this riding.
Gauvin says there are a few concerns for the region that he hopes to tackle if elected, “Here in Scoudouc, you have the Parc Industriel de Scoudouc, so there was a road that was built. I’m sure we can maximize it. In Grande-Digue, there’s environmental problems with the Dunes, so we’re going to work on that. And we’re going to continue to develop Dieppe, because it is growing and growing.”
New Brunswickers will go to the polls on September 14th, to elect a provincial government.
