New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative Party is trying to cash in on the end of the COVID-19 pandemic with a fundraising appeal that appears to compare the Opposition Liberal Party to the coronavirus. In a fundraising appeal sent by email on June 22, Premier Blaine Higgs predicts the Liberals will be "coming after us" when the pandemic is over. In the email, Higgs quotes a question period exchange he had with Liberal Leader Roger Melanson on May 12. In the email Higgs says that's evidence Melanson is "abandoning" collaboration "and getting back to politics as usual." It's quite disturbing for the premier and the PC Party to use the pandemic as a backdrop to raise money for their own party.

Source: CBC News July 19, 2021 18:20 UTC