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Dec 06 2011

HALIFAX, NS – Cumberland North NDP MLA Brian Skabar is putting the NDP ahead of jobs by supporting a harmful new labour law in the face of widespread opposition from small business owners, major employers and organizations representing tens of thousands of job creators in Nova Scotia.

“Mr. Skabar has a choice this week – he can stand on the side of jobs and investment in Cumberland County or he can stand alongside special interests that have convinced the Premier to pursue this bad...

Dec 05 2011

Porter says ‘do the right thing’ and oppose the NDP’s harmful labour law

HALIFAX, NS – NDP Members of the Legislature, like Kings South MLA Ramona Jennex and Kings North MLA Jim Morton, are putting the NDP ahead of jobs by supporting a harmful new labour law in the face of widespread opposition from small business owners, major employers and organizations representing tens of thousands of job creators in Nova Scotia.

This comes on the heels...

Dec 05 2011

Tories say ‘do the right thing’ and oppose the NDP’s harmful labour law

HALIFAX, NS – NDP Members of the Legislature, like Shelburne MLA Sterling Belliveau, are putting the NDP ahead of jobs by supporting a harmful new labour law in the face of widespread opposition from small business owners, major employers and organizations representing tens of thousands of job creators in Nova Scotia.

“The fishing industry represents hundreds of...

Dec 05 2011

Do the right thing’ and oppose the NDP’s harmful labour law

HALIFAX, NS – PC MLA Keith Bain warns the NDP member for Queens, Vicki Conrad, not to jeopardize the $50 million taxpayer funded bailout to Bowater Mersey by supporting the harmful new labour law.

“Elected NDP members of the legislature have a choice this week,” said Bain. “The member for Queens can stand on the side of jobs and investment in her constituency, or she can...

Dec 05 2011

HALIFAX, NS - NDP Members of the Legislature, like Antigonish’s Maurice Smith, are toeing the party line on the Dexter government’s new labour law in the face of widespread opposition from small business owners, major employers and organizations representing tens of thousands of job creators in Nova Scotia.

“Elected NDP members of the legislature have a choice this week,” said PC MLA Allan MacMaster. “Maurice Smith can stand on the side of jobs and investment in Antigonish, or he can...

Dec 05 2011

Do the right thing’ and oppose the NDP’s harmful labour law

HALIFAX, NS - Lunenburg County NDP Members of the Legislature, like Pam Birdsall and Gary Ramey, are putting the NDP ahead of jobs by supporting a harmful new labour law in the face of widespread opposition from small business owners, major employers like Michelin and Clearwater and organizations representing tens of thousands of job creators in Nova Scotia.

“Elected NDP members of the...

Dec 05 2011

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...

Dec 04 2011

Progressive Conservatives appeal to NDP MLAs to 'do the right thing'

HALFAX, NS - PC leader Jamie Baillie will address a Truro and District Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Monday with a message for NDP Premier Darrell Dexter: "Put the best interests of the province ahead of what's best for your party and withdraw the First Contract Arbitration bill."

Baillie and the Progressive Conservatives will attempt to delay the controversial bill again...

Dec 02 2011

HALIFAX, NS – PC leader Jamie Baillie said today that the government’s bailout of Bowater must be “a wake-up call for the NDP, who need to do things differently”.

“The primary focus of government must be to welcome job-creating investments, small and large. That is the best way to keep jobs, to create jobs and to fund our social programs,” said Baillie.

Baillie says the government’s assistance to the struggling Bowater Mersey...

Dec 02 2011

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...