The former Conservative Finance Minister says he’s leaving the party until the Premier steps down.
Jeannot Volpé sent out a tweet yesterday asking the party president to remove his name from the membership list until there is a leadership review, according to CBC.
The Higgs’s government says the motivation behind Volpé’s tweet was that he “recently asked the Premier’s Office to intervene in a human resources issue at NB Power, but was refused because it would have been inappropriate to do so.
Volpé says he quit the party because people in his former Madawaska-area riding still call him to complain about current PC policies or to ask him for government help, and he wanted to send a message that he’s not part of that party anymore.