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faramir77 posted...

A Conservative majority seems very unlikely, but apparently Nova Scotia's provincial election last month gave a similar surprise.

It honestly wasn't that surprising. NS (along with the rest of the Atlantic provinces) has had particularly strict Covid restrictions, which have generally done an excellent job of keeping the pandemic under control, but the side effect of that is that a whole lot of rural ridings have seen literally 0 cases and therefore have a really distorted sense of the risk. They blamed the Liberal government for the restrictions (since, in their eyes, the pandemic wasn't dangerous enough to warrant any sort of action), so when the election rolled around, they tried to get someone else in that they believed would get rid of them.

When Houston got elected, a substantial portion of the comments on articles talking about it amounted to "congratulations! Now lift the restrictions and fire Dr. Strang (the chief Medical Officer of Health for the province)!" He then proceeded to move forward with pretty much the same reopening strategy the Liberals were already enacting, surprising nobody that understands anything about the situation. He's also outright refusing to consider extending the rent control that was put in place for the pandemic and has appointed a commercial landlord as the housing minister, so the housing and homelessness crisis that's already pretty bad here is about to explode. But hey, at least these clueless yokels got to stick it to the Libs.

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