Iain Rankin will be the next premier of Nova Scotia. Rankin was elected following a vote by Nova Scotia Liberal Party delegates, with the results announced Saturday night during a virtual convention.
Yvon Grenier; photo courtesy StFX
A political scientist says the provincial Liberal leadership contest hasn’t had any real competition among the former cabinet colleagues.
Antigonish MLA Randy Delorey, Halifax Citadel-Sable Island MLA Labi Kousoulis and Timberlea-Prospect MLA Iain Rankin are running to become the new Liberal leader and, by extension, the province’s next premier.
Yvon Grenier, a political science professor at StFX, says none of the three candidates offer anything meaningfully unique.
“It was a bit (of a) boring campaign,” he says. “None of them wanted to indicate any kind of departure from what they experienced over the past year in the McNeil cabinet.”
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