N.B. election: Tory leader promises to help synagogues, churches increase security

New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs is promising synagogues, mosques, churches and assemblage organizations much wealth for information measures, including the installation of surveillance cameras.

With 2 weeks near successful the provincial predetermination campaign, Higgs, who is vying for a 3rd word arsenic premier, says if re-elected his enactment volition instrumentality “harder and harder lines connected crime.”

“In an ever-changing world, we are progressively alert of the request to guarantee that our nationalist spaces, including places of worship and assemblage gatherings, are unafraid and protected,” helium told reporters successful Fredericton.

He said that peculiarly for spiritual institutions, “there are increasing concerns astir safety. That’s wherefore contiguous we are taking action.”

A re-elected Tory government, helium said, would amend the presumption of the Community Investment Fund to let non-profits to use for backing for specified things arsenic information cameras and stronger locks connected their doors. The money provides $70,000 each twelvemonth to each legislative assembly subordinate to enactment assemblage projects and priorities.

Also portion of the Tories tough-on-crime docket is to cull each caller applications for supervised drug-injection sites, and to present authorities to unit radical with terrible cause summation into treatment.

Meanwhile, the Liberal and Green parties were scheduled to marque announcements astir wellness attraction connected Monday. Liberal Leader Susan Holt had an lawsuit successful Saint John, N.B., followed by luncheon astatine the city’s market. Green Party Leader David Coon was scheduled to clasp a quality league astir “local health-care decision-making” alongside lawman person Megan Mitton successful her Sackville, N.B., riding.

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A Mainstreet Research canvass released Friday gave the Liberals 36 per cent support, up of the Tories astatine 32 per cent, with 18 per cent of respondents undecided. The Green Party had 11 per cent and the People’s Alliance enactment was a distant 4th astatine 1 per cent.

Mainstreet’s canvass was drawn from an automated telephone survey of 906 adults betwixt Oct.1 and Oct. 3., and had a borderline of mistake of positive oregon minus 3.3 percent points with a 95 per cent assurance level.

The predetermination is Oct. 21.