N.S. election: Liberals promise to improve cellphone service [Video]

HALIFAX –

Nova Scotia’s Liberal party is promising to improve cellphone coverage and invest in major highways if the party is elected to govern on Nov. 26.

Party leader Zach Churchill made the announcement Thursday during a news conference in Halifax, saying a Liberal government would spend $60 million over four years to build 87 new cellphone towers.

“Our cellphone coverage is in a really terrible state right now,” he said.

Churchill said that money would be in addition to the $66 million the Progressive Conservative government committed to similar projects last year through the Crown corporation Build Nova Scotia.

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“Cell service will be expanded to make sure that in every area where we can have cell coverage, where it makes sense, we will,” he said. The priority will be along the province’s major highways, where he …