August 23, 2021. Western Head, Nova Scotia. Elections.

The Premier of Nova Scotia called a snap election to be held last Tuesday. By the Fall of 2022, an election was required but evidently, the Premier thought that he was so popular right now that he could get elected for another four years. So the election was held, and Nova Scotia now has a new Premier. Wow. What a miscalculation. I loved it. From May on, I paid attention to the politics of Nova Scotia. I read and listened. And when I got here I asked questions and gathered opinions. Yhe former Premier was a liberal. And he seemed to enjoy being a dictator. In April, after a dozen or so new Covid infections, he declared a state of emergency and required everyone to stay at home. Even though no new cases occured in Quens County, everyone was required to stay at home. Everything shut down. You could not drive to the next town. You could not drive to Halifax unless you had permission for the doctor. For a short time, Nova Scotia was a police state. There were protest in Halifax and at the border to Nw Brunswick so the rules were quickly changed. In early July when the Premier called the eletion I was surprised because from talking to people here, he was not very popular. But he thought he was popular. But he lost. Now the new Premier is a Consrvative or he is as conservative there is in Nova Scotia. The moral of the story is that when an election is held, no one really knows what will happen. I laughed out loud when I read the results of the election. Served that little dictator right.