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Business minister Mark Furey told a post cabinet scrum in Halifax Thursday that provincially operated visitor information centres in Nova Scotia will be privatized. When asked by a CBC reporter whether the VICs might be turned over to private operators, Furey said "I think we have to."

The McNeil government has endured much criticism over its closure of three major visitor centres last year and over fears that the remaining six centres would see the same fate.

“These workers have dedicated a lot of time and effort into reaching out to tourism operators to advocate for the centres to remain open, and in the end it looks like that hard work has paid off.”

"...how they've utilized that money and what they retain, I'm not sure I can actually answer the question." Minister Mark Furey