Dans le sud-est de la province, deux députés sortants tenteront de défendre leurs châteaux forts libéraux.
La circonscription de Beauséjour appartient aux rouges depuis 1968, sauf lors d'une courte période entre 1997 à 2000, alors que le siège a été occupé par la néo-démocrate (et plus tard progressiste-conservateur) Angela Vautour.
Toutefois, Dominic LeBlanc ne tient pas ce fait pour acquis et dit se préparer pour cette élection depuis plusieurs semaines.
«La plupart ...
Dominic LeBlanc, left, speaks at the official opening of his campaign headquarters in Shediac last night. LeBlanc is the incumbent Liberal MP in the riding of Beauséjour.
Photo: VIKTOR PIVOVAROV/TIMES & TRANSCR
Source: timestranscript.com (April 7th, 2011)
It is fitting in many ways that l'Université de Moncton has renamed its scholarships for academic excellence after the late Roméo LeBlanc.
Before LeBlanc died in June 2009, his last act as a servant of the public was as chancellor of the university. He also graduated from the university's forerunner, College Saint-Joseph, launching the fiercely proud Acadian's careers as an educator, journalist, federal cabinet minister and the nation's first and only Acadian governor general.
"And yet he was always one of us," UdeM president Yvon Fontaine said yesterday as the new name for ...
