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Nova Scotia Government U.S.-Style Authoritarianism in Favour of Fracking
NS, under Premier Tim Houston, is trying to enact measures such as: - Limiting media access to elected leaders. - Giving the government the power to fire civil servants without cause.
- Making it harder to find out what the government is up to via access to information requests.
- Making it impossible to propose amendments at a government committee formerly called Law Amendments.
- Lifting bans on fracking and uranium mining (without consulting the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs), protections adopted after consultation and engagement with Nova Scotians and backed by health and…
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