Liberal LeRoy Armstrong defects to People's Alliance
Former Kings East Liberal MLA LeRoy Armstrong has announced he is joining the People's Alliance of New Brunswick — a party that has never won a seat in the legislature.
Armstrong said in a People's Alliance press release that it's a big change for him, but a necessary one if politics is going to change in New Brunswick.
Armstrong was first elected as a Liberal in 1995 when then-premier Frank McKenna won his third majority government.
He lost his Kings East riding four years later, won it back in 2003 under leader Shawn Graham, and lost again in 2006.
Armstrong doesn't explain in the press release why he's leaving the Liberals, only that he likes the Alliance's opposition to linguistic duality and its common sense approach to changing how government works.
This is the second defection by an ex-Liberal MLA this year. Last month former cabinet minister Kelly Lamrock joined the NDP.
The People's Alliance, which was founded in 2010, attracted the support of one per cent of respondents in a poll released last December, the fifth of five parties.
