Jamie Baillie
CUMBERLAND SOUTH
Leader
Critic Portfolios:
Office of the Premier
Finance
Treasury Board
Policy and Priorities
Intergovernmental Affairs
Immigration
Advisory Council on the Status of Women Act
Youth
Seniors and the Senior Citizens' Secretariat
Committees:
Internal Affairs
Constituency Office:
6 McFarlane Street,
Springhill, NS B0M 1X0
Tel:(902) 597-1998
E-mail: jamiebaillie@gov.ns.ca
Website: www.jamiebailliemla.ca
Baillie: Adding more debt raises ethical concern
HALIFAX, NS – Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie says the NDP and Liberal defense of increasing the provincial debt is a failure of ethical leadership.
“Rather than defend more borrowing and passing the bills on to our kids, the Liberals and the NDP defend their right to pile up more debt,” said Baillie. “Both other Party leaders will continue to mortgage our children’s future in...
Baillie calling on Premier not to use accounting trickery
HALIFAX, NS – Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie says there are 27 million reasons not to believe the NDP will truly balance the budget.
“This is the same NDP that when faced with the decision to fess up about the $27 million budget blunder, chose instead to cover it up. How can Nova Scotians believe the NDP now?” asked Baillie. “Darrell Dexter told Nova Scotians that he would...
SPRINGHILL, NS – Cumberland South MLA and Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie says the NDP Minister of Education’s mismanagement of the construction project at River Hebert District High is unacceptable, and needs to be resolved.
Baillie is responding to news that the River Hebert District High renovation project is experiencing further delays.
“The news of further delays in the construction project at River Hebert District High is unacceptable,...
HALIFAX, NS - Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie says the Premier must answer for who was responsible for the $27 million budget cover-up.
“The NDP keep passing the buck about who is responsible, but the Premier has yet to hold anyone accountable for this budget cover-up,” said Baillie. “Why does the Premier continue to choose to cover-up the $27 million mistake rather than fess up?"
It’s been almost a month since the Auditor General...
PC leader talks with business leaders at Chamber luncheon in Truro
TRURO, NS – Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie says the Dexter NDP is recklessly mismanaging Nova Scotia’s finances and doing less with more.
“The NDP has taken a billion dollars from families in higher HST, put one billion dollars on the backs of our kids to pay off, and is receiving hundreds of millions more in federal transfer payments, but still cannot balance the budget...
Hardworking families forced to tighten their belts while NDP keep on borrowing and spending
HALIFAX, NS -- Hardworking Nova Scotians are being forced to do more with their money than anyone else in Canada, Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie said today.
The Statistics Canada cost of living report released today confirms that over the past three years, Nova Scotia has consistently been among the provinces with the highest yearly price increases.
“...
HALIFAX, NS – Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie says Deputy Premier Frank Corbett failed in his duties by choosing to cover up rather than correct the $27 million budget error.
Deputy Premier Corbett, chair of the powerful Treasury Board that is responsible for overseeing the budget, told reporters today he didn’t think it was his responsibility to tell the Premier about the $27 million error contained in the budget.
“It’s the Deputy Premier...
Questions about missing $27 million still unanswered
HALIFAX, NS - Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie is calling on Deputy Premier and Treasury Board Chair Frank Corbett to come clean about why the NDP covered up a $27-million error in the budget.
“The Deputy Premier chaired the committee that approved a fictitious budget,” said Baillie. “Why did they choose to sweep this under the carpet?”
NDP claims that they couldn’t...
HALIFAX, NS – Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie says the NDP Energy Minister’s Higher-Power-Rates tour is the latest example of the NDP’s sham consulting.
Today, the Minister of Energy was in Bridgewater touting the NDP plan that has increased power rates in Nova Scotia by 30 per cent, to the highest in the country
“The NDP and the Liberals are both pushing expensive electricity schemes that will continue to drive power rates up,” said...
PCs file objection with UARB on blacked out Maritime Link application
HALIFAX, NS – Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservatives filed a letter with the Utility and Review Board today, renewing their objection to the excessive blacking-out of information by an Emera affiliate. This time, the over-redacted document is the NSP Maritime Link application.
“The power company is, once again, trying to hide from scrutiny by greatly limiting how much information...
