This new district could go red or blue, but is leaning blue currently. It’s made up of pieces of four former Moncton and Petitcodiac ridings. All five parties are represented in this district, but the numbers are not kind for the orange, green, nor purple banners.
I can not help but find it strange to find a People’s Alliance candidate running for this seat after reading on the PAND facebook page about the waste of money that bilingualism has been to the province (a viewpoint not at all shared by the writers of this blog). Add to that, the fact that CBC Radio Canada found that PANB leader Kris Austin is not fluent enough in the French language to debate en Francis. Regardless, Lucy Goguen believes in the People’s Alliance and Kris Austin to make a play for it.
For the Progressive Conservatives is incumbent Petitcodiac MLA Sherry Wilson. A business owner, former deputy mayor, former RCMP Victims Services volunteer, and volunteer for D.A.R.E. She hasn’t been given a cabinet post since being elected in 2010, but is a promising candidate.
Another promising candidate is the New Democrat’s Charles Doucet. Like Wilson, Doucet has political experience in Moncton’s City Hall where he serves on the mayor’s advisory committee for downtown revitalization and development. He has degrees from both Universite de Moncton and Dalhousie University. Doucet also has backgrounds in working for both the environment and autism.
Tyson Milner for the Liberals has more than twenty years experience as a business owner in Moncton.
The Greens’ Mathieu LaPlant received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Universite de Moncton in 1999; majoring in journalism and public relations. He describes himself as a person who is deeply concerned with environmentalism and social justice.
Lucy Goguen actually has one of the most detailed personal platforms of any People’s Alliance candidate. She is a nurse at the Moncton City Hospital and wants to bring wage parity into effect. Goguen wants to make the MLA expenses more accountable with online reporting. Checks and balances are a top priority for Goguen. Interestingly, as a nurse, Goguen does not want to prevent fracking in the province; though she (and the PANB as well) want to bring in more regulations and safety standards than those of the PCs. Germany is in the process of banning fracking for both environment and health concerns.
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