NS Election poverty reduction who cares

Well yet another election is upon us - in NS this happens more than you may think, because no party rises too far above another in either policy or popularity and they spend their time fighting with each other instead of governing the province
The last year we activists have had the promise of poverty reduction dangled in front of us. I believe in the hopes that the current government the PC could gain or co-opt some solidarity from the activist community. Sadly we bought into all the bullshit - even when we knew it would go nowhere- we still eagerly participated. This caused rifts - as the government decided to go about it in its less than community based approach and singled out who they thought were allies and leaders and only invited them to be involved. Everywhere you went you could cut the tension with a knife between the chosen and the excluded. Now that the consultation process has concluded many that participated are feeling co-opted and those who were excluded are even more critical.
Now the NDP are very close to getting their kick at the can - I advise all to remember the lessons learn from west - when the NDP took power they could not move quickly and were confined by the policies and framework legacy of the past government and I as many mourned all those wonderful activists that we drawn in to work for government thinking that finally they could change the world from the legal framework