Liberals bring the pain

Launch yet another bloody sitzkrieg...

-- HALIFAX -- While the outcome was hardly in doubt, Nova Scotia’s minority Conservatives were smiling broadly Thursday after easily surviving a confidence vote on their $8.4-billion budget.

The fiscal plan, tabled April 29, passed third reading in the legislature by a vote of 31 to 20 with the support of the third-place Liberals.

The Liberal support means the Conservatives, who are approaching two years in power next month, will have at least another year to govern.

*