N.S. NDP calls for increased government accountability
- savewestmaboubeach
- Nov 6, 2025
- 1 min read
Michael Gorman
CBC - November 7, 2025 Originally published here
Party creates new ethics and accountability critic role
NDP Leader Claudia Chender says her party would improve accountability by overhauling the province’s lobbyist registry if they formed government.
... A lobbyist registry 'in name only'
She highlighted untendered contracts for Sobeys and the Atlantic branch of Enterprise Canada related to Nova Scotia Loyal, talk of intervening on a Halifax Regional Municipality bylaw that would prevent infilling at Dartmouth Cove and the consideration of a proposal from Cabot Cape Breton to develop a golf course in West Mabou Beach Provincial Park.
Chender noted that Houston’s government did not intervene when HRM passed a bylaw related to infilling in the Halifax Arm — but she said the owner of the company that has proposed infilling Dartmouth Cove is someone Houston has identified as a close personal friend.
Meanwhile, Cabot Cape Breton is not listed in the province’s lobbyist registry, nor is former PC premier Rodney MacDonald, who has done work for the company.
“We have a lobbyist registry right now, but really in name only,” said Chender.
“We need a registry that has teeth so that Nova Scotians understand who is influencing the government spending their money.”
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