Newsmaker profile: Stephen McNeil traded toolbox for premier’s office
HALIFAX — Before he led Nova Scotia, he carried a toolbox.
But re-elected Liberal Premier Stephen McNeil, 52, comes from a family that does things in a big way, so 14 years ago he left his job running an appliance repair shop to enter politics.
Public service and family have always figured prominently in his life.
McNeil — a soft-spoken man with a lower-register voice and somewhat imposing six-foot-five frame — is the 12th of 17 children.