I didn’t want to do it, I resisted doing it for ten goddamn years. And all it took was one extremely flawed—dangerous, even—proposed provincial budget, and I have indeed started a podcast.

I longed to hear deep conversations with Nova Scotians in the know about the many and varied parts of our way of life here that will be threatened, in some cases irrevocably, by the budget Tim Houston introduced in late February and has been trying to pass ever since.

A heroic effort by the opposition MLAs, and by citizens across the province and across sectors has so far jammed the gears, slowing down the political process.

My hope is that slowness means more Nova Scotians have a chance to learn and understand what’s at stake, and to demand that their government press pause on this flawed budget. It’s bad math, and it’s bad for Nova Scotians, and it should not pass.

But because Tim Houston has a super majority (elected in the lowest-ever voter turnout election, an election he broke his own law to call, btw), this budget will pass unless government MLAs are brave enough to push back, to insist that this budget needs serious revision, and to, at the very least, not show up to vote if they feel they cannot stand up for their constituents against the Premier.

And so, given all of that, I have made a podcast about it, in which I am interviewing as many folks as I can in the next week or so, and uploading it to Youtube.

Check it out, share it around, and let me know if there’s someone you think I should interview this week.