Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is threatening to pass a law enshrining the right to wear a poppy in the workplace after two of the province’s judges started requiring court staffers to ask for their permission to wear poppies in their courtrooms.

The issue came to light after the Atlantic version of Frank Magazine reported Judge Ronda van der Hoek, associate chief judge of the Provincial Court, and Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Jean Dewolfe (of the family division), who both work out of the Kentville Justice Centre in the Annapolis Valley, did not want court staff wearing poppies in their courtrooms.

“It has come to my attention that earlier this week there was an order issued prohibiting individuals working in certain court facilities from wearing poppies while on duty in those loc

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