HALIFAX — A rookie member of the legislature is the fourth candidate and first woman to enter Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative leadership race. “I think it’s the right time for me personally and I think it’s the right time for the party to elect a woman as leader,” Smith-McCrossin said in an interview. Smith-McCrossin, who grew up on a dairy farm in Linden, N.S., said she believes her rookie status as a politician shouldn’t disqualify her. Currently the party’s health critic, Smith-McCrossin said her priorities as leader would be economic growth and tackling problems in the province’s ailing health care system. Details of the leadership convention are expected to be announced during the party’s annual general meeting this weekend in Halifax.

Source: National Post February 06, 2018 22:07 UTC