Jake Stewart, the MP for Miramichi-Grand Lake, recently had a House of Commons lawyer send a cease-and-desist letter to Shawn Morrison, a longtime Conservative who used to work in his office.

The Centennial Bridge, a 1.1-kilometre span across the Miramichi River completed in 1967, is a key artery not just for the city, but for all traffic moving between northeast New Brunswick and the ...