HALIFAX, N.S. — Three days after a controversial comment led to the resignation of Nova Scotia's justice minister, Premier Tim Houston has named a replacement.
Eastern Passage MLA Barbara Adams will serve as the new attorney general and justice minister. And she'll also keep her post as minister of seniors and long-term care, a position that she's held since 2021.
“Barbara has been doing an excellent job as Minister of Seniors and Long-Term Care, bringing passion, empathy and determination to the role,” Houston said in a brief news release. “I know that she will bring those same qualities to the Department of Justice as we work to improve the system and implement the recommendations of the Mass Casualty Commission.”
Adams, 61, was to be sworn into her new portfolio Monday afternoon.
First elected as an MLA in 2017, she's a graduate of Dalhousie University and worked as a physiotherapist in Nova Scotia and Ontario in both the public health-care sector and as a business owner in private practice.
She replaces Sackville-Uniacke MLA Brad Johns, who resigned from cabinet a day after he said he didn't believe domestic violence was an epidemic. His comment, which he apologized for, came on on the fourth anniversary of Nova Scotia's mass shooting.
