‘We’ve got to have Plan B’: New Brunswick MPs weather the ice storm

Handing out food, finding shelter for pets, and touring the riding kept MPs busy.

Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc, centre, flanked by Rear-Admiral and Joint Task Force Atlantic Commander John Newton, centre-left, and Serge Cormier, MP for Acadie-Bathurst, centre-right, in a warming shelter in the town of Tracadie, N.B., six days after an ice storm hit the northeastern corner of the province.Photograph courtesy of the Department of National Defence

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

February 8, 2017

Waking up to a world covered in ice, New Brunswick’s MPs spent the last days of their winter break scrambling to help constituents left in the cold by a storm that knocked out power lines across the province. Without a formal ro...

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