Despite carbon tax exemption, Liberals still sinking in Atlantic Canada

And the promise last week to take the carbon tax off heating fuel just in Atlantic Canada and just until after the next scheduled election isn’t helping them in the polls.

The NDP is making gains to turn Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, Halifax and St. John’s East into horse races. “… there’s a growing rift between cities and rural areas, not just in Canada. I’m not sure the government has fully grasped that or even put its best minds on that issue.”“Inflation, rising cost of living, jobs, the economy, housing affordability — for many voters that’s what they want to hear about from the federal government,” said Nik Nanos, head of Nanos Research.

The Liberal government has also come under criticism for its handling of the moderate livelihood fishery file from both First Nations and non-aboriginal communities who rely on the sea. While the issue simmered under both Conservative and Liberal governments since the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1999 Marshall decision, it has come to a head under the current administration. In the last election federal fisheries minister Bernadette Jordan lost her seat in South Shore-St. Margarets.

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