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Campaign Politics
Vote 2015 – Miramichi–Grand Lake
Jobs dominate the election campaign in Miramichi-Grand Lake. At 13.7 per cent, this riding has the second highest unemployment rate within the province. Incumbent Tilly O’Neill Gordon, the Conservative candidate, is confident that a federal government payroll office established this year with 500 jobs will pay off for her at the polls. NDP candidate Patrick Colford says these jobs are good union jobs that have merely shifted from other parts of the country, which is not good enough. Liberal candidate Pat Finnigan argues government jobs are great, but they are there at the whim of the party in power. An entrepreneur himself, Finnigan, aka “Mr. Tomato”, says there needs to be a bigger push for small business and innovation, which only his government is offering. He’s also pitching his party’s reversal of changes to Employment Insurance amde under the Conservatives, which he says has hurt seasonal workers in his riding more than elsewhere. The flailing salmon fishery and outmigration are all hot topics for the Green Party’s Matthew Clark. Join CPAC's Bill Kendrick in Miramichi-Grand Lake.