New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative party is losing one of its highest-profile MLAs just months before the next provincial election. "I also think it can be a challenge being in provincial politics. … If I go another four years in provincial politics, it concerns me that my options would be limited after that." He was a political assistant to former federal Defence Minister Peter MacKay and sought the federal Conservative nomination for Fredericton for the 2008 election. Macdonald ran for the leadership of the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party but lost to Blaine Higgs.

Source: CBC News May 28, 2018 21:00 UTC