N.S. premier faces pushback at tense public meeting over Antigonish amalgamation
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Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston faced opposition in Antigonish Tuesday night during a community meeting about potential plans for amalgamation.
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston faced opposition in Antigonish on Tuesday night during an at times tense community meeting about potential plans for amalgamation.
Residents packed the room at the Heatherton Community Centre to voice their concerns about upcoming plans to amalgamate the town with the county.
Several said the process is moving too fast, with too little information.
“There’s no understanding as to why. Why consolidate to start with?” asked Terry Penny, a member of the group Let Antigonish Decide.
The group says it is neither for, nor against, amalgamation, but described the process so far as “undemocratic.”
“The best that we’ve heard is that the town and the county get along right now, so it’s a good time to do it,” Penny said. “Hardly seems a good basis to consolidate communities.”
In January, both town and county councils voted to proceed with their intention to dissolve the town under a consolidation that would adopt the county’s name.
And last month, the province’s law amendments committee returned a bill that would allow the contentious merger to go through, without changes.
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