Heavy agenda expected as Nova Scotia legislature opens for spring session
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s Liberal government reconvened the legislature Tuesday for its earliest spring sitting since 1995, but tabled no major bills despite what’s seen as a full agenda in the coming weeks.
Major education reforms are high on the to-do list, but the government has signalled a willingness to hold off for now on legislation it maintains will be passed sometime later this spring.
The reforms are based on recommendations in a report released last month by education consultant Avis Glaze. They include eliminating the province’s seven English-language school boards and the removal of 1,000 principals, vice-principals and supervisors from the ranks of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union.
“The fact of the matter is that bill wouldn’t have been introduced today because of the complexity of a number of the acts that are associated with it that we will have to bring together,” Premier Stephen McNeil told reporters.