N.B. Tory leader brushes off Liberals questions about campaigning with Alberta’s Jason Kenney

A Liberal candidate vying for a seat in New Brunswick’s upcoming election is ringing alarm bells about Blaine Higgs’s ties to social conservative Jason Kenney – concerns the Tory leader is brushing off as overblown.

Former teacher and current Liberal candidate Brent Mazerolle says he wants to know if Higgs supports some of the socially conservative views expressed by the leader of Alberta’s United Conservative Party, who is anti-abortion but has said he won’t legislate on his beliefs.

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Kenney is set to join Higgs at a fundraiser tonight and a campaign announcement tomorrow morning.

In a phone interview, Higgs chalked his meetings with Kenney up to a matter of business.

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He says he respects everybody’s views and beliefs, but he says he will be mainly discussing the future of New Brunswick with Kenney and that it isn’t his role to get in the middle of personal discussions.