The Nova Scotia NDP will officially select their representative in Queens-Shelburne tonight for the next provincial election.
Leader Gary Burrill and current MLA Sterling Belliveau will be there when the party nominates John Davis as its candidate.
Gary, Sterling and John Davis stop by the the local museum to learn
more about the need to invest in our cultural heritage. #nspoli pic.twitter.com/H5EMCoJe3P— NSNDP (@NSNDP) March 8, 2017
Gary Burrill says Davis is well qualified to address the issues facing the riding, particularly concerning the protection of fisheries resources.
“He’s the director of the Clean Ocean Action Committee, he has experienced in operating a vessel himself and also in fish processing and he’s got a long background in community development in Nova Scotia.”
Davis says the Liberals are destroying the fishery and the communities that rely on the industry.
“They are totally prepared to put the fishery, our main economic generator for the last three centuries at totally unnecessary risk with their blind promotion of the oil and gas industry. This province has to develop all the resources it has available to it, there’s no question about that, but, there has to be some balance between the demands of the oil and gas industry and the regulators who oversee that industry and the requirements of the protection of the renewable resources on the the Scotian Shelf.”
Sterling Belliveau is retiring after the next provincial election.
He looks at his life in chapters.
10 years with the Lobster Advisory Board and 10 years in municipal politics.
“And it was 10 years when I made the announcement at the provincial level that I was going off into the sunset so I hope there is a couple of more chapters.”
The nomination meeting takes place at 7 p.m at the Shelburne Community Centre.
