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Nova Scotia is in the throes of a summer election its first since 2003.
Premier Iain Rankin has taken some criticism largely from the PC Party over the decision to call a summer election.
But Jim Bickerton, a professor of political science at St. Francis Xavier University, says there’s likely a reason Rankin called a summer election.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bickerton says, the governing Liberal Party has gotten more attention than either the NDP or PC Party over the past year, Bickerston says
“The current Liberal government has been strong in the polls, as a result of generally favourable public opinion of the handling of COVID in this province,” says Bickerton. “The current new leader and premier is hoping to cash in on that, and the longer he waits before an election call the less likely he’s able to ride that wave of public approval.”
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HALIFAX As NDP Leader Gary Burrill campaigned Wednesday on the fifth day of the Nova Scotia election, he emphasized that his party would take the longest to balance budgets and would be the least cosy with big business. It s part of a strategy that one political scientist says the NDP needs to pursue in a field that s crowded at the centre of the ideological spectrum, with all three major contenders promising deficit-based spending to revive the economy. Sitting outside a small barbershop in Halifax s north end in a capital district that s been key to the party s past success the 65-year-old United Church minister said dropping a corporate tax break introduced by the Liberals would be among his party s top priorities if elected to govern in the Aug. 17 vote.
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