It was a day that did not reflect well on Nova Scotia government over many years and under Liberal, NDP, and Conservative Premiers. On the same day, we learned of the passing of activist Betty Peterson whose motto was “Keep on keepin’ on”.
View VIDEO/STORY: Liberals taken to task on poverty, environment in day of protest by Stuart Peddle for the Chronicle Herald, Feb 27, 2018.
Several hundred protesters voiced their concerns outside Province House on Tuesday as the Nova Scotia legislature began its spring session.
They came in two waves as a diverse group verbally took Stephen McNeil’s Liberal government to task over a wide range of topics, including plans for effluent from Northern Pulp to be piped into the Northumberland Strait, to clearcut concerns, to poverty and access to health care. Later in the afternoon, after most of the earlier protesters had left, a group of a couple of hundred parents, teachers and their supporters revitalized the event as they called on the Liberals to reassess the decision to implement the recommendations of the Avis Glaze report on the education system.
