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New Brunswick's deputy premier quits Tories over health-care reforms

14 Feb 2020, 15:47 by The Canadian Press Staff Contact

SHIPPAGAN, N.B. -- New Brunswick deputy premier Robert Gauvin has announced he is quitting the governing Progressive Conservatives in protest over health-care reforms.

Gauvin told constituents in his riding of Shippagan-Lameque-Miscou he will sit as an Independent, dealing a blow to the minority government of Premier Blaine Higgs.

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