Background to In the News – NS Democracy Issues
Lack of transparency surrounding NS Governments’ handing of forestry and of environmental issues more broadly has been a major issue for decades, and regardless of the party forming government. Those governments more recently were formed by PCs (1999-2009), NDP (2009-2013), Liberals (2013-2021) and PCs again (2021, ongoing).
The first PC Government (2021-2024) under Premier Tim Houston, while acting quickly and progressively on some major environmental issues early on, has early in its new mandate targeted “Special interests [who] have captured too many parts of our economy and have had an out-sized voice in policy creation.” “That” said Houston “must end.” (CBC, 22Jan2025)
These Special Interests evidently are those who in any way question the PCs “push for more natural resource development in Nova Scotia” (CBC, 22Jan2025). In short order the PC Government has “introduced a series of government bills that will make them a lot less accountable, transparent, and accessible to the media and the public” (LP, 24Feb2025).
This subsection of NSFM’s In the News compiles related news items beginning with the Premier’s Letter to Caucus on Jan 21st, 2025. Items are listed in reverse chronological order (most recent items at top).
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