{"id":171461,"date":"2026-08-17T20:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/171461\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T20:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:05:25","slug":"n-s-cabinet-minister-marco-macleod-faces-calls-for-resignation-over-past-song-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/171461\/","title":{"rendered":"N.S. cabinet minister Marco MacLeod faces calls for resignation over past song lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/TJN6G2LW4VD6BB2OZTBEUAQJRA.JPG?auth=c04946b94d737a66f462a6e8dbe462d43dedcd1bae7336a3d701d0ca6be04c26&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">Province House on Granville Street in Halifax is seen on the right. It houses the Nova Scotia Legislature.Maria Collins\/The Globe and Mail<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">A Nova Scotia cabinet minister is facing criticism for a song he recorded before his time in politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Energy Minister Marco MacLeod sang on a track called George Jones under the artist name Meadowville.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The lyrics include misogynistic terms for women and a reference to using cocaine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Critics say the lyrics are hateful toward women and violent, and have questioned if MacLeod should remain in the provincial cabinet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">MacLeod on Saturday posted a note to social media apologizing for the lyrics of two songs he says are hurtful to women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The leader of the Opposition New Democrats says hate targeted at women from a sitting minister is a big deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Claudia Chender says MacLeod should explain if he still holds the values expressed in the song\u2019s lyrics and what he\u2019s doing to address the harm his words have caused.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cWe also call on this government to explain why this was missed in candidate vetting and what the repercussions will be for withholding this information,\u201d Chender added in a post to social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">MacLeod did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Adsum House, a Halifax women\u2019s shelter, says it was \u201csickened\u201d by MacLeod\u2019s song and called for him to resign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Province House on Granville Street in Halifax is seen on the right. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,361],"class_list":["post-171461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-pleasemod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}