Eddie Orrell
CAPE BRETON NORTH
Critic Portfolios:
Education
Economic and Rural Development & Tourism
Nova Scotia Business Inc.
Gateway Initiative
Innovation Corporation Act
Constituency Office:
309 Commercial Street
North Sydney,N.S.
B2A-1b9
902-794-4847
Fax 902-794-1815
eddieorrell@bellaliant.com
SYDNEY, NS – Progressive Conservative Education critic Eddie Orrell says it is unfortunate that Hants East MLA and Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations Minister John MacDonell has refused to take part in the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union’s Take your MLA to School program.
“It’s disappointing that at a time when the NDP are taking the axe to classrooms, making them do more with less, Minister MacDonell won’t take the...
SYDNEY, NS – Progressive Conservative Education critic Eddie Orrell says it is very unfortunate that MLA for Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage Becky Kent refuses to join the important Take your MLA to School program.
“It’s disappointing that at a time when the NDP are taking the axe to classrooms, making them do more with less, Ms. Kent won’t take the time to visit one in her own constituency,” said Orrell.
Eleven NDP MLAs,...
SYDNEY, NS – All Progressive Conservative MLAs are all taking part in the 2012 Take your MLA to School Day, this Friday, March 2nd, making it clear that the PC Caucus has made education a priority.
Eleven NDP MLAs, including Premier Darrell Dexter, Education Minister Ramona Jennex and Finance Minister Graham Steele have, to date, refused to participate.
“Leadership comes from the top,” said Cape Breton North MLA and PC Education critic Eddie Orrell. “When I heard that neither...
SYDNEY, NS – Cape Breton’s Progressive Conservative MLAs are applauding the federal Conservative government's decision to scrap the wasteful and inefficient long-gun registry.
“Rural Nova Scotia has been waiting a long time for this,” said Victoria-The Lakes MLA Keith Bain. “I'm pleased our Conservative government did what was right and thanks to the hard work of the Nova Scotia Conservative team, this failed registry will soon be behind us.”
“The long-gun registry has been...
SYDNEY, NS - Cape Breton Progressive Conservative MLAs will meet with District Health Authority CEO John Malcolm on Monday regarding the newest outbreak of C.difficile in the Cape Breton Regional Hospital.
"We want to hear from Mr. Malcolm if there is more that can be done to put an end to this persistent and serious matter," said Cape Breton North MLA Eddie Orrell. “It’s a very unfortunate situation when ‘exposure to the healthcare system’ is considered a risk factor for a deadly...
New nurses uniforms coming from New Brunswick, home oxygen from Manitoba and Newfoundland
January 26, 2012
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HALIFAX, NS – Progressive Conservative Economic Development critic Eddie Orrell says the NDP’s high taxes and the special interests they support are costing jobs at Nova Scotia companies.
The Nova Scotia Nurses Union voted last year to adopt a common uniform at a cost to taxpayers of about $500,000. In the past, nurses sourced and paid...
HALIFAX, NS – Progressive Conservative MLA Eddie Orrell will be in Guysborough on January 24th to listen to the concerns of seniors and their care providers about the future of long-term care.
“The NDP government has stopped building long-term care beds in the province despite our aging population and all indicators pointing to the need for more beds,” said Orrell, a former health care provider. “I want to hear from seniors, their families and their care providers about the needs of...
NDP continue to ignore job loss crisis in Cape Breton: Orrell
NORTH SYDNEY, NS – Progressive Conservative Economic and Rural Development and Tourism critic Eddie Orrell says the decreasing number of jobs in Cape Breton over the last two years is cause for concern but the NDP government isn’t doing anything about it.
Today’s Statistics Canada job numbers show no change in a distributing trend as rural Nova Scotia continues to suffer significant job losses. Every region of the...
Tories say ‘do the right thing’ and oppose the NDP’s harmful labour law
HALIFAX, NS – NDP MLAs, like Pictou Centre’s Ross Landry, Pictou East’s Clarrie MacKinnon and Pictou West’s Charlie Parker, are putting the NDP ahead of jobs by supporting a harmful new labour law in the face of widespread opposition from small business owners and major employers like Sobeys and Michelin.
“I was only elected in June 2011 but I...
SYDNEY, NS – Progressive Conservative Economic and Rural Development and Tourism critic Eddie Orrell says the NDP’s attitude toward the crisis in rural Nova Scotia is costing families jobs.
“Premier Dexter and his Economic and Rural Development Minister should be ashamed of themselves,” said Orrell, MLA for Cape Breton North. “Where are the voices of rural NDP cabinet ministers like Frank Corbett, John MacDonell, Ross Landry or Sterling Belliveau in...
