Around the province.
400 jobs on the line as NDP sit back and hope for the best
HALIFAX, NS - PC leader Jamie Baillie says the Dexter-led NDP are being out-hustled by our New Brunswick neighbours when it comes to the future of our province’s only oil refinery. Imperial Oil announced today that they will sell their Dartmouth refinery.
Baillie says the refinery is the latest casualty of the weak business climate created by the NDP.
“The business climate...
Minister said “at no time did we indicate that a 30-day review would be completed within 30 days”
HALIFAX, NS – Progressive Conservative House Leader Chris d’Entremont says Nova Scotians have been let down continually by the inadequacies of NDP Premier Darrell Dexter and his cabinet, and the review into the tragic death of community activist Raymond Taavel is the latest example.
Taavel was killed by East Coast...
House session ends with no action on power rates or health shutdowns
HALIFAX, NS – Darrell Dexter's NDP government failed to take action on the major issues Nova Scotians care about during the Spring session of the legislature which ended today.
“Nova Scotians should be rightfully disappointed to hear their government did nothing to protect them from hospital shutdowns and rising power rates in this House session,” said PC leader Jamie...
NDP’s weak effort on bullying comes up short
HALIFAX, NS – Another Nova Scotia family is suffering today because the NDP failed to take any meaningful steps to tackle the bullying that endangers Nova Scotia children.
A Cape Breton mother, Lisa Bennett, found herself in the same situation as too many Nova Scotia families when she found no recourse to deal with teenagers who bullied her seven year-old son at a bus stop and posted the video...
NDP should address executive pay, return on equity before House session ends
HALIFAX, NS – The legislative session shouldn’t end until the NDP government has taken steps to make electricity more affordable for Nova Scotians says PC leader Jamie Baillie.
“The NDP are going to end the session without passing any legislation to help ratepayers,” said Baillie. “We have Bills before the House that will help protect ratepayers...
HALIFAX, NS – Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie says the NDP should put patients first, instead of their own political interests, and keep the Legislature sitting to pass a law that avoids healthcare work stoppages.
A bill before the House, An Act to Protect Patients, would provide for an alternative resolution of contract disputes in healthcare that avoids work stoppages, or even the threat of them, while...
Nova Scotians’ trust tested by jet-setting Premier
PC amendments shot down by NDP
HALIFAX, NS – On a day that Nova Scotians learned about the Premier’s mile-high adventures on the Emera corporate jet, the NDP shot down amendments to ensure the Muskrat Falls project is properly vetted.
“Nova Scotians are being kept in the dark about the cost of this deal and we now know that the deal was done with no paper trail, just a jet trail,...
HALIFAX, NS - Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie says his caucus will intervene at the UARB hearing into Nova Scotia Power's latest request to postpone $120 million in costs to 2015 and raise power rates 3 per cent per year in each of the next two years. The hearings are set to begin September 13th.
NDP’s phony election promise a “sham” says Baillie
HALIFAX, NS - All members of the Progressive Conservative Caucus walked out of the House of Assembly in protest when the NDP government rammed through a contrived Financial Measures Act that included a deficit budget and a worthless election promise to cut the HST.
“Nova Scotians have already paid over $1,000 each for the NDP’s last broken promise,” said Baillie. “I...
HALIFAX, NS – PC House Leader Chris d’Entremont is calling on the NDP today to quit stalling on important Freedom of Information requests.
“It’s painfully obvious that the NDP are dragging their feet intentionally,” he said, suggesting the NDP want to make sure the session of the House of Assembly ends before the documents are turned over. “It’s clear the NDP government doesn’t want Nova Scotians to get into the details...
