Liberal leader Kevin Vickers speaks to reporters in Fredericton on Aug. 17, 2020. (File photo/New Brunswick Liberal Party)
Liberal leader Kevin Vickers is sending out a warning to those living in regions including Sussex, Sackville, Perth-Andover, and Grand Falls.
Those are four of the communities which would have been affected by overnight emergency room closures proposed by the Progressive Conservatives earlier this year.
“I’m telling the people of those communities now to realize should Blaine Higgs receive majority government, those services are gone from their communities,” Vickers said during a campaign stop in Scoudouc on Monday.
“You cannot trust Blaine Higgs. He’s already showed his colours when it comes to promising no cuts to health care.”
Campaigning in Oromocto on Tuesday, Higgs promised he would not close any ERs in the province if re-elected, saying he heard constituents when they rejected his party’s previous attempt to cut overnight hours at six provincial hospitals.
Meanwhile, Vickers said Higgs is simply “thinking about himself” by choosing to send New Brunswickers to the polls in the middle of a pandemic.
“This is a hard time for so many good people in New Brunswick. Your government should be thinking of you,” he said.
Also on Tuesday, Vickers announced that former Progressive Conservative deputy premier Robert Gauvin would be the Liberal candidate for Shediac Bay-Dieppe.
Gauvin left the PCs in February after disagreeing with the party’s proposed health-care reforms. He continued to serve as an Independent MLA for Shippagan until the legislature was dissolved Monday.
With files from Tara Clow.
