Conservative leadership candidate Kevin O’Leary penned another open letter to a premier Wednesday, this time targeting Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil.

In a lengthy Facebook post O’Leary wrote: “I am putting you on notice. It’s time you start doing a better job for the people in Nova Scotia. If you don’t? Well, you can ask your friend Kathleen Wynne what happened to her poll numbers when I started writing letters.”

In January, O’Leary called Wynne an “incompetent” politician in a letter on Facebook.

His letter to McNeil says he met with “hundreds” of people from across Atlantic Canada in Halifax last weekend and he “got the strong sense” that McNeil hasn’t listened to them for a long time.

“Maybe you haven’t had a chance to get out of your office and talk with your voters recently? Thank goodness you have me. Let me try to explain the issue to you, because you don’t seem to get it.”

O’Leary writes that Nova Scotia’s resources — fishing, forestry, farming, natural gas — are key ingredients for economic success, and asks McNeil why the Nova Scotia economy isn’t flourishing.

“When you have a land rich in resources and you do not use them for the benefit of the people, that really bothers me,” O’Leary wrote.

He added that Nova Scotians pay some of the highest taxes in the country.

“I know, I know, it’s not your fault. When I talk to Liberal politicians, it never is. But you can still do something about it,” he wrote.

O’Leary writes that he’s promising all Canadians that 3 per cent GDP growth will be his primary mandate when he “takes over in Ottawa in 2019,” but in order to achieve that, he needs Atlantic Canada to become “an economic powerhouse.”

O’Leary calls the moratorium in place on natural gas extraction “crazy” and repeats a comment he’s made about the science behind extraction.

“The science has made this safe, and we must get extraction going,” he wrote.

“As for off-shore – this is a vastly underdeveloped area because your tax policies are so punitive. The high bidding fees for exploration make it seem like you are more interested in exploration fees than royalty revenues from production. That’s so backwards, I’m sorry I can’t allow this to go on.

“I have promised (Canadians) that I will shine the light on mediocrity and incompetence in government when I see it.”