CHMA joined New Brunswick Liberal candidate for Tantramar John Higham and a party volunteer as they knocked on doors in a Sackville neighbourhood last week.
Higham says he’s heard “really positive ideas” from voters, including “things that could be done differently and better.” But he’s also had a number of strong negative reactions which he attributes to the phenomenon of anti-Liberal sentiment directed at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“I’ve been told that I have joined the biggest mafia in the world,” says Higham. One person went so far as to threaten the provincial candidate and former mayor. “I was told ‘get off my property, I’m going in the house and getting something, and it’ll show that you never will come on my property ever again,” recounts Higham. “So we’ve got that group of people that has really changed the tone.”
