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WOLFVILLE<\/strong>: The MP for Kings-Hants has launched a website and online petition calling on Premier Tim Houston to reverse his government\u2019s new policy concerning Nova Scotia\u2019s grape and wine sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kody Blois said in a release that the website, www.nsfirst.ca, was launched March 14 and the petition garnered over 900 signatures in the first few hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn January, the Houston government proposed a new policy that would put Nova Scotia farm wineries and commercial bottlers on equal footing by subsidizing the importation of grape juice from other provinces and countries,\u201d said Blois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”190″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”78″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Blois continued: <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis decision undermines local farmers. Premier Houston is using taxpayer dollars to encourage grape production outside of Nova Scotia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “The chair of Wine Growers Nova Scotia has stated that the proposed policy change could have a catastrophic effect on The Nova Scotia grape and wine sector is a significant contributor to Nova Scotia\u2019s economy, creating over 1,100 direct jobs while bringing over 150,000 visitors to our province each year, and has an economic impact of more than $245 million annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”2″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”87″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”111″] [adrotate banner=”115″] WOLFVILLE: The MP for Kings-Hants has launched a website and online petition calling on Premier Tim Houston to reverse his government\u2019s new policy concerning Nova Scotia\u2019s grape and wine sector. Kody Blois said in a release that the website, www.nsfirst.ca, was launched March 14 and the petition garnered over 900 signatures […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[6356,1933,196,6357,6358,1281,6359,1395,6360],"class_list":["post-43656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-aannapolis-valley","tag-annapolis-valley","tag-east-hants","tag-grape-and-wine-sector","tag-kody-bloics","tag-kody-blois","tag-mp-kody-bloios","tag-petition","tag-wines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
the sector.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n