[1] This frequently put him at odds with New Brunswick's Liberal Premier Louis Robichaud, who was concurrently adopting legislation recognizing the equality of the French language within the province.
[1] After Robichaud opened the Université de Moncton, a French-language university, in the city in 1964, Jones quickly became a target for frequent protests by students at the new school.
The most publicized incident was in 1968, when two students delivered a severed pig head to Jones' house.
[2] With linguistic tensions high on both sides during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Jones remained popular with the anglophone majority in Moncton.
He left the mayor's chair to run as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1974 federal election.