Quote of the year from Nova Scotia premier
Last April, when gasoline prices were sky high, Premier Rodney MacDonald said this to reporters outside the provincial legislature.
“I think the most important thing we as a government can do, and all Nova Scotians can do, is to purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles, to take up the opportunity for transit.”
The premier later objected to this headline in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald:
Premier to drivers: Take the bus
Premier MacDonald was so upset that he sent a letter to 24 Nova Scotia newspapers, maintaining that he did not say that. The Chronicle-Herald was not among the 24.
A few months before, the premier had travelled from Halifax to his home in Mabou in a government helicopter at a cost of $2200.