PC’s say NDP puts private property rights in question
HALIFAX, NS – Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie says Premier Darrell Dexter needs to immediately reassure Nova Scotians that an NDP bill limiting the rights of private property owners won’t go a step farther.
On the last day of the fall sitting, the NDP introduced Bill 161, a dangerous piece of legislation that is causing outrage in rural communities, and uncertainty about private...
Release apprentice program review now
HALIFAX, NS - Progressive Conservative Labour and Advanced Education critic Keith Bain says that even though young Nova Scotians are struggling to find jobs, the NDP are a year late in releasing the apprentice program review.
Today, the NDP announced a panel of experts will gather information from employers and industry, but they still have not released the apprentice program review that was done last year and due March 31, 2012 (...
Says Muskrat Falls application should wait
HALIFAX, NS - Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie welcomes a study into the future of natural gas in Nova Scotia, but says once again the NDP have the province’s energy plan backwards.
“Nova Scotians need more affordable energy but once again the NDP have put the cart before the horse,” said Baillie. “This study should be complete before Emera files the Muskrat Falls application with the...
HALIFAX, NS – Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie says the NDP’s political decision to move Maintenance Enforcement workers to New Waterford, home of Deputy Premier Frank Corbett, from other rural communities is leaving women and children in the lurch.
“The upheaval the NDP have caused for vulnerable women and children for their own political gain is unacceptable, and it is proof of the NDP’s incompetence,” said Baillie. “They made a...
SYDNEY, NS – Progressive Conservative Natural Resources critic Alfie MacLeod is calling on NDP government House Leader and Deputy Premier Frank Corbett to reassure Nova Scotians that NDP MLA Michele Raymond’s Bill 161 will not go any farther than it already has.
On the last day of the fall sitting, Raymond introduced a vague piece of legislation that is causing mounting public outrage in rural communities, and uncertainty about private property owners’...
SYDNEY, NS – Cape Breton West MLA Alfie MacLeod says the recent distinction from travel website vacay.ca ranking the Fortress of Louisbourg as a top travel destination in Canada couldn’t have come at a better time.
Louisbourg was named the Best Place to Visit in 2013 on the popular travel website. 2013 also marks the 300th anniversary of the founding of the settlement.
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HALIFAX, NS - Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie extends condolences to the family of former Dalhousie University president and Federal Court of Canada judge, W. Andrew MacKay.
"Justice MacKay served his province with great integrity, led Dalhousie University through a challenging period, and was an able and well-respected jurist," said Baillie. "He will be greatly missed."
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MV Miner continues to pose risk
SYDNEY, NS – Cape Breton West MLA Alfie MacLeod says the federal and provincial governments need to start working together to get the MV Miner wreck out of the water before it’s too late.
It is being reported that a barge Bennington Group planned to use to remove the MV Miner from the wreck site has broken free from the ship in recent weather and has run aground on Scaterie Island. MacLeod says...
Donkin mine could employ 300 Cape Bretoners with good jobs
SYDNEY RIVER, NS – Cape Breton West MLA Alfie MacLeod says it’s time the NDP started to work with Nova Scotia company Morien Resources Corp. to help find a buyer for Xstrata’s interest in the Donkin mine project, bringing much needed employment to the region.
In April 2012, Xstrata announced they would be looking to secure another operator for the proposed project...
Cape Breton health-care system under strain
NORTH SYDNEY, NS – Cape Breton North MLA Eddie Orrell says the NDP are ignoring the needs of seniors and their families by forcing them to wait in Cape Breton hospitals for long-term care placement.
The NDP have not built one, single new long-term care bed since taking office and to make it worse, the NDP cancelled the final 200 beds of the Continuing Care Strategy.
“It’s shameful that...
