Veronique Arsenault is the Mayor of the City of Miramichi.

She has spent the past ten years as a federal public servant. Before that she owned a local business and led two organizations close to the heart of this community, the Greater Miramichi Chamber of Commerce and the Miramichi Regional Multicultural Association.

Veronique is the proud daughter of Jacquelyn and Roger Arsenault. Her mother taught for 32 years and was a chaplain at Miramichi Regional Hospital for 11. Her father served 33 years in the Canadian Armed Forces and 24 years with the United Nations abroad. Service was something she grew up watching every day, and today she is an executive member of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 3.

Her volunteer record runs as long as her career. She was a Rotarian with the Rotary Club of Chatham for 10 years, gave 12 years to Canada's Irish Festival on the Miramichi, and spent several years with the Miramichi chapter of the Schizophrenia Society of New Brunswick. That work taught her how much of this city is carried by people who simply show up.

As Mayor, her priorities are growing our housing options, building the local economy, and staying connected to what residents actually need. She would rather hear a concern in person than read about it later.