Tim Houston and PCs win majority in Nova Scotia

Tim Houston and his Progressive Conservatives have secured a decisive majority in the Nova Scotia election.  After the vote count was suspended at 1:30 a-m, the Tories were leading or elected in 42 of the legislature’s 55 ridings, the New Democrats were at nine, the Liberals had three and there was one Independent.  At his victory speech in New Glasgow, Houston returned to a theme that he used to start the campaign on October 27th — warning the federal Liberal government not to get in Nova Scotia’s way.  The Tories’ signature promise is to lower the harmonized sales tax by one percentage point to 14 per cent.