This is Tony Huntjens supporting Percy Mockler in his speech supporting workers from Quebec coming here.
Tony used to be an MLA from the C.O.R. PARTY!!!!
My God? How time flies????? Who would have believe 16 years ago that a C.O.R. MLA would support Quebec Workers????
Anything can happen in New Brunswick???
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
YES TONY HUNTJENS...HOW TIME FLIES??? < Who would have believe???? >
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Whatever gave you the idea that Tony Huntjens was a CoR MLA. You are really going over the limit!
I saw Tony a few hours ago and he told me that I should get my facts straight.
You mean to tell me that he wasn't a C.O.R. MLA????
He was prominent member of the COR party. I think he also ran for its leadership but he was never elected as a COR MLA.
personally i think C.O.R would have been a greta political party.
and i also think, Quecbec workers are the Best Of The Best. their not lazy like new brunswickers who just want to stay home collect the welfare and get drunk and stoned, all the time.
When Lord became leader of PC party in 1997-he welocme back COR members in droves. That is how Hunjens joined PC and ran in 1999. He was elected as PC but his roots are COR.
6:21 PM you are quite right that they are all better than a lazy bum living on welfare and whining all the time. All others are useful members of society.
Charles, Tony was president of the CoR party but never an MLA, leader or leadership candidate.
Tony Huntjens
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Antoon J. "Tony" Huntjens is a former teacher and New Brunswick politician. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for the riding of Western Charlotte.
Huntjens first became active in politics as a member of the Confederation of Regions Party of New Brunswick (CoR) and was the president of that organization and its candidate in Western Charlotte in the 1995 election. He placed third with 23.7% of the vote, just 162 votes short of the second place Progressive Conservative candidate but well behind the victorious Liberal.
Following the 1995 election, which saw CoR slip from official opposition to zero seats in the legislature, Huntjens joined the Progressive Conservatives and eventually became their candidate for the 1999 election again in Western Charlotte. This time he was successful, winning 51.0% of the vote to 44.9% for his Liberal opponent. Huntjens spent his first term as a backbencher but was re-elected in the 2003 election and joined the cabinet as Minister of Family and Community Services.
Huntjens was forced to resign from cabinet on October 31, 2005 after he accidentally revealed the identity of an autistic man under the care of his department to a journalist on October 27. When Lord shuffled his cabinet on February 14, 2006 Huntjens was not included, though it was widely expected he would be, but Lord did announce that he would support Huntjens for speaker of the legislature as the position became vacant when Lord named the incumbent speaker to cabinet. Huntjens did not become speaker, however, when he withdrew his name from contention when it became apparent that indepedent member Michael Malley was interested in the post, Malley's election saved the government from losing a voting member and thus created a great deal more flexibility in the standings of the legislature.
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