Talk:Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia

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Party website link

The PC~NS website (pcparty.ns.ca) just redirects to RodneyMacDonald.ca, which has officially replaced the Party Site. I should know, I'm a member of the party. Cavenba 22:49, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's doing that now, but wasn't when the weblink change was first made in this article (I checked both links then). —GrantNeufeld 23:21, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Position

All parties in Nova Scotia are basicly in the "centre." The Liberals, Conservatives, and NDPers are all in the centre, not to the left or right.

The NSPCs are NOT Centre-Right. They campaigned to the left of the Liberals, and them being centrist while in government is not the exception, it is the rule. Red Tories through and through — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.138.78.172 (talk) 21:44, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NSPCs still adhere to a variant of conservatism and don't fall under the "centre" on the political spectrum; let's not try to use this as a means to rebrand the party via someone's personal perception. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.222.154.132 (talk) 04:02, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's not 'personal perception', that the party is being defined on. It's on the word of the current leader of that party, and their listed platform. They've vocally defined themselves as being fiscally moderate and socially progressive. That's center to center-left. Believe me, I'm as surprised as anyone, but that's where they're at. 47.54.10.23 (talk) 01:26, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

For future reference

Results of the 28 October 1995 NS PC leadership contest:

John Hamm 1594, Jim White 1107, Michael MacDonald 284

(source: Winnipeg Free Press, the next day) CJCurrie 01:13, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

POV issues

This article reads like a press release. The section Progressive_Conservative_Association_of_Nova_Scotia#The_party_in_recent_years is especially bad. This article needs authors with a little less political operative running in their veins. Balanced, neutral POV required. WayeMason (talk) 02:17, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I concur. The reference for the sentence "[John Hamm's gov] delivered the province's first truly balanced finances in 25 years" is the press release for the Premier's Office: https://novascotia.ca/news/release/?id=20040520008 Bbrnrd (talk) 02:20, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

POV issue?

I see this was brought up in the past, but reading this Wikipedia page makes me think the really Conservative Progressive Conservative party has, somehow, became the overly Liberal party. I mean, they call themselves moderates and link to the 2017 platform as evidence of that. The current Government's first act was to make Elections happen in the summer, a purely partisan, ultra-Conservative move. I do not believe they can be accurately called moderate anymore and propose a neutral party change the article to reflect reality as opposed to the reality the PC's seem to want to exist.-Kirkoconnell (talk) 14:00, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is this party "centre to centre-right" or "centre to centre-left"?

Right now the title of the source for it in the infobox says N.S. Tory leader leans left yet it said "centre to centre-right". I've changed it back to "centre to centre-left" but noticed the issue is apparently subject to an edit war between multiple IPs.

So before it goes on any longer: if you have an issue, discuss below. Try to form a consensus and settle the issue instead of repeatedly changing it back and forth. Given it's now under discussion, editors, including IPs, should refrain from further changes to it. JM (talk) 22:33, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

During the 2021 elections, the NSPC ran a pretty progressive camapign that primarily focused on healthcare. The headline title suggested that it leaned towards the left. However, whilst **somewhat** true, I believe that the principal position in the wikibox should be put as "centre," with "centre-right and centre-left factions". Although the NSPCs ran on a progressive platform, they still have some fiscal conservatism and joined other Conservative-led provinces in opposing the federal Carbon tax. Additionally, it's wild to call a party with the name "conservative" in it principally centre to centre-left. Despite it being way more moderate than its federal counterpart, if a PC MLA runs for a federal seat they would more likely then not choose the more Conservative, CPC over the more moderate LPC, or more left-wing NDP and that can be proven with former NSPC MLA's turned-MPs most running under the Conservative banner federally, if not all. Imo the Leadership its-self is could be more moderate than its MLA's but that shouldn't mean that the party should be categorized as "left-of-centre". That's why a fair characterization in my opinion should be "centre" with "centre-right and centre-left factions". NathIsHere (talk) 07:30, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]