Gilles Duceppe's election tour swung terribly close to the border — with the rest of Canada.

The Bloc leader is campaigning on the southern coast of the Gaspé Peninsula. The only thing dividing this area of Quebec from New Brunswick is Baie-des-Chaleurs, which lets out into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

This morning, Duceppe held a news conference on the docks at Carleton-sur-Mer, a fishing village where unemployment is high and many people work in seasonal industries like the fisheries and tourism.

With a backdrop of the bay and the red cliffs of northern New Brunswick in the distance, Duceppe decried the federal government's employment insurance scheme which he says cheats workers of the benefits they need to live here all year round.

— Tim Duboyce