{"id":63330,"date":"2026-03-25T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=63330"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:00:00","slug":"n-s-ndp-premier-and-finance-minister-skip-vote-for-disastrous-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=63330","title":{"rendered":"N.S. NDP: Premier and Finance Minister skip vote for disastrous budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56509&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HALIFAX: <\/strong>NSNDP Leader Claudia Chender made the following statement Wednesday afternoon after the Houston government pushed through the Appropriations Act with both the Premier and Finance Minister absent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the definition of governing behind closed doors. The Houston government is banning Nova Scotians from the People\u2019s House, the Premier is out of the country, and the Minister of Finance couldn\u2019t be bothered to show up to vote in favour of cuts that he can\u2019t even explain,&#8221; said Chender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This chaotic budget is so bad that the people in charge of it didn\u2019t even have the courage to stand behind it with their vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56376&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Chender continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Houston government shut people out of the Legislature for singing peacefully to disrupt last night\u2019s vote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They haven\u2019t been listening to valid criticism and now people are deeply frustrated.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Today\u2019s (Wednesday March 25) vote means Nova Scotians are getting the worst of both worlds: irresponsible spending behind closed doors and deep cuts to vulnerable people and thriving local sectors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX: NSNDP Leader Claudia Chender made the following statement Wednesday afternoon after the Houston government pushed through the Appropriations Act with both the Premier and Finance Minister absent: \u201cThis is the definition of governing behind closed doors. The Houston government is banning Nova Scotians from the People\u2019s House, the Premier is out of the country, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[10184,3124,6263,1378,2517],"class_list":["post-63330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-budget-2026","tag-claudia-chender","tag-n-s-budget","tag-n-s-ndp","tag-premier-tim-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63330","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=63330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}