Episode 12: The Speaker's Choice - a podcast by CBC Radio

In 1978, Bob McCready saved Premier Richard Hatfield's government. McCready was a Liberal MLA who was appointed Speaker of the Legislature by the Progressive Conservative premier. It padded Hatfield's narrow majority in the legislature. With another potentially close election coming this fall, CBC New Brunswick's provincial affairs reporter Jacques Poitras reveals the untold story of the Speaker's Choice.

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