N.S. Liberal leader fumes over federal carbon tax election sign by Progressive Conservatives | 24CA News
The Nova Scotia Liberal Party is asking Conservative messaging across the federal carbon tax a big affect on voting within the wake of the by-election in Preston.
Shortly after Premier Tim Houston boasted about election outcomes from his social gathering, Liberal chief Zach Churchill mentioned that the provincial Liberals have been painted with the identical brush because the Trudeau authorities.
Signs round Preston learn, “vote against the Liberal carbon tax” exterior polling stations within the using, which has primarily voted crimson by means of the previous 30 years.
Just final week, the Liberals tried to get a few of these indicators eliminated.
“It’s unfortunate that the Houston Conservatives chose to run a campaign that played on misinformation towards voters rather than speaking on its own record in government for the last two years, which was unfairly supported by Elections Nova Scotia,” Churchill mentioned.
Complaints to Elections Nova Scotia come on the heels of the Liberals dropping a ruling about controversies over marketing campaign messaging from Twila Grosse.
Last week, Dorothy Rice, Nova Scotia’s chief electoral officer, ordered the Liberals to take away indicators and different marketing campaign materials that she mentioned contained false statements regarding a possible dump within the using’s Lake Echo space.
Rice known as within the RCMP to help with a proper investigation beneath the provincial Elections Act, after the Liberals refused to conform together with her order. She acted on a grievance by the Conservatives over what they mentioned was deceptive materials wrongly asserting that Premier Tim Houston was doing nothing to cease plans for the dump.
Both the Liberals and NDP in Nova Scotia have known as out the Conservatives within the wake of the election, saying that the carbon tax is exterior provincial jurisdiction.
Tom Urbaniak, a political science professor on the University of Cape Breton, mentioned the quantity of political power on the door creates aftermarket drama between the political events.
Urbaniak believes the conservative focusing on of the carbon tax in the course of the by-election was a wise transfer however not the rationale for the win.
“Twila Grosse would have won this election (even if) the carbon tax has not been a talking point in this by-election,” Urbaniak mentioned in an interview with Global News.
“She would have won because of her strong campaign, because of the candidate factor which counts in Preston.”
–With recordsdata from the Canadian Press
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