Two weeks before the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick will pick a new leader, the party lost one of its more outspoken, high-profile members.
Dr. Jim Parrott died last Tuesday, Oct. 5 in Saint John. He died at the age of 74.
Parrott was a pioneer in medicine who later went into politics and never shied away from controversy.
That would eventually cost him his spot in the Tory caucus, but he got it back from former premier David Alward right before the 2014 election, in which he lost.
Party officials have said Parrott would have been at the leadership convention on October 22 in Fredericton to help the party pick a leader for the 2018 provincial election.
Nathan DeLong from St. Thomas University Journalism discusses Parrott’s legacy in this podcast.
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