Moncton—Dieppe

Moncton—Dieppe covers the cities of Moncton and most of Dieppe in southeastern New Brunswick. Renamed from Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe under the 2022 redistribution, the riding no longer includes the town of Riverview, which was reassigned to Fundy Royal. Moncton—known as the Hub City for its central position in the Maritime provinces—anchors one of Canada’s fastest-growing census metropolitan areas, with the CMA population reaching an estimated 196,000 in 2025. The riding is officially bilingual: roughly 58 percent of Moncton residents speak English as their mother tongue and 27 percent French, while the adjacent city of Dieppe is predominantly francophone.

Candidates

Ginette Petitpas Taylor (Liberal) is the incumbent, first elected in 2015 and seeking her fourth term. Born in Dieppe as the youngest of nine children, she holds a Bachelor of Social Work from the Université de Moncton and spent 23 years as a social worker and Victims Services Coordinator for the Codiac Regional RCMP before entering politics. She has served as federal Minister of Health, Minister of Official Languages, and Minister of Veterans Affairs, and was appointed Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages following Randy Boissonnault’s resignation in late 2024.

Jocelyn Dionne (Conservative) is an Acadian from Moncton’s Parkton neighbourhood who holds a business degree from the Université de Moncton. After 13 years in small-business sales with Bell Aliant, he and his wife launched their own personal development and consulting firm. A father of three, Dionne focused his campaign on affordability and cost-of-living issues.

Serge Landry (NDP) brings more than 20 years of experience in social and economic justice advocacy, beginning his career in long-term care in 1999 before becoming a regional representative for the Canadian Labour Congress. His campaign priorities included affordable housing and national pharmacare.

Marshall Dunn (Green Party) is a bilingual software engineering student at the University of New Brunswick who ran to bring a younger perspective to the campaign and to offer voters an alternative focused on environmental and affordability issues.

About the Riding

Moncton—Dieppe’s economy is driven by transportation and logistics, information technology, financial services, and the broad presence of the Irving group of companies, which maintains multiple subsidiary head offices in the region. The city’s position as the rail, highway, and air hub of the Maritimes sustains a large logistics sector, while a growing cluster of IT firms and contact centres has diversified employment.

Greater Moncton recorded among the highest population-growth rates of any Canadian metropolitan area for four consecutive years, driven by immigration and interprovincial migration. Moncton alone surpassed 100,000 residents in 2025—a first for any New Brunswick city. This rapid growth fueled an acute housing crisis: rents climbed sharply, rental vacancy rates plummeted, and homelessness became increasingly visible in the downtown core.

In 2025, cost-of-living pressures dominated the riding’s political conversation. Grocery prices, child-care availability, and strained health-care services—including overcrowded emergency rooms at the Moncton Hospital—were persistent concerns. The bilingual character of the riding kept official-languages policy on the agenda, particularly following controversies over provincial language and education policies under the previous Higgs government. Moncton became the country’s first officially bilingual city in 2002, and the protection of francophone rights and services remained a significant theme in the 2025 campaign.