Government MLAs defeat motion focused on preserving protected areas
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Michael Gorman CBC News - October 29, 2025
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Liberals wanted natural resources committee to recommend government not alter any protected designations
Progressive Conservative MLAs used their majority on a legislative committee to vote down an opposition motion to recommend the government not remove, downgrade or alter the protected status of any designated coastal protected area in Nova Scotia.
... Rankin’s motion was defeated by the PC majority on the committee, which included Inverness MLA Kyle MacQuarrie (whose district includes West Mabou Beach), Annapolis MLA David Bowlby, committee chair Tom Taggart, Kings South MLA Julie Vanexan and Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank MLA Brian Wong.
Wong called Rankin’s motion “rich,” given the history he and his former government had around a proposed golf course development in Owls Head. While that land did not have formal protected status at the time as West Mabou does now, the PCs added it after they formed government in 2021.
Wong said the government is committed to protecting biodiversity and meeting its conservation goals, while not shutting the door on “opportunities for good jobs and employment in all of our communities right around Nova Scotia.”
