Meet the NB NDP’s Tantramar candidate, Evelyne Godfrey
Another candidate for the Tantramar seat in the New Brunswick provincial legislature has stepped forward. Evelyne Godfrey is the prospective nominee for the New Brunswick NDP.
Godfrey is a dual Canadian and UK citizen, and for the past number of years has split her time between her home in England and her home in Port Elgin, where she now lives with her husband.
Godfrey dropped by CHMA to talk about her decision to run, the future of the NDP in New Brunswick, and plans for a local policy forum to engage residents about what they’d like from their provincial government.
Godfrey is no stranger to campaigning for the NDP, and ran as the federal NDP candidate in the 2021 federal election. She says this will be a rebuilding election for the provincial NDP, who haven’t held a seat in the legislature since 2006.
“I think that our voters are out there, and we disconnected from them in the last sort of six years,” says Godfrey. “But we’ve got a fantastic team now of candidates that I’m very, very happy to be with for the NDP. They’re all full of hope and joy and pride in this place,” she says.
The riding of Tantramar has four candidates so far in the election slated for October 21. Incumbent Memramcook-Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton is running for the Green Party, former Sackville mayor John Higham is running for the Liberals, and Tantramar councillor Bruce Phinney recently announced he’s the prospective candidate for the PCs.… Continue