N.B. Tories unhappy with Blaine Higgs’s leadership sit out this provincial election

Jason Sully would normally spend the first weekend of a provincial election period immersed in campaign logistics – knocking on doors, organizing volunteers and all the other behind-the-scenes work involved in getting candidates elected.In past years he would have been tackling these tasks on behalf of the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative party, which he has supported since 1998 and is seeking a third consecutive mandate to govern the province.