This is our time, to put the people first. This is our time to work together and open doors of opportunity for our province; to restore hope and prosperity and offer real change; to reclaim real democracy, and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with a timeless echo that sums up the true spirit of New Brunswick: Yes, we can!

The true strength of our province comes not from the powerful or the scale of their wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, fair play, caring for one another, opportunity and unyielding hope. We are not enemies but friends and neighbours.

The legacy system we have laboured under divides us, constantly seeks to confuse and manipulate us, forces us to separate into blue or red, and the other colours, pitting English against French, French against English, rich against poor, poor against rich, we have forgotten we are all immigrants on lands that belong to others.

The system we have laboured under is used to inflame baser emotions and passions pitting us against each other, seeks to distract us while it feeds off of our confusion. The years and decades has seen continual centralization and concentrations of power and wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer.

The old system has clouded and distracted us from basic fairness, and forced us into accepting a greater and greater uneven playing field, dividing us, separating us from each other. Our parents and grandparents are forced into institutional warehouses, our children forced into institutional education that does not prepare them for the world they are about to live in.

All the while the taxes and individual resources get sucked into the vacuum of an ever increasing government system that feeds on a larger and larger vacuum.

Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. So let us summon a new spirit of hope, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.

Thru every election there is a chance for us to make that change.

“It can’t happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice. Let us summon a new spirit of Consensus, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.

Let us summon a new spirit of searching and finding agreement in the things we have in common. We all have had the lessons of basic fairness growing up, and a belief in the idea of a level playing field from a young age. Let us work together to level the field where everyone can live and thrive.