Massive job losses and double-digit unemployment fail to sway Dexter
HALIFAX, NS – Premier Darrell Dexter is denying that rural Nova Scotia is in crisis despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
On Tuesday, when asked by reporters in Halifax about his thoughts about the crisis in rural Nova Scotia, he said, “I disagree that there is a crisis.”
Progressive Conservative Economic and Rural Development critic Eddie Orrell says the Premier and his NDP government are “out...
- NDP has announced no new beds since becoming government
- NDP cancelled 200 new beds that were planned
- The waiting list for a nursing home bed is longer than when the NDP became government and is 35.5 per cent longer than 2007
- Cape Bretoners eligible for a long-term care bed are waiting for more than 400 days
HALIFAX, NS – Two and a half years into the NDP government’s mandate and no action has been taken to address the remarkable increase in the number...
- Private sector does the work for under $40,000 per kilometre
- NDP says the government does the work for $50,000 per kilometre
- Road building industry says government’s costs are really closer to $65,000 per kilometre
HALIFAX: The NDP government presented misleading numbers to the House of Assembly today on the real costs of their government chip-sealing crew.
“At $50,000 per kilometre, if the government chip-sealing crew had...
HALIFAX, NS – Cape Breton West MLA Alfie MacLeod says with federal, provincial and territorial Health Ministers meeting in Halifax this week, he hopes Health Minister Maureen MacDonald will step up to the plate and take a leadership role in moving clinical trials of Liberation Therapy forward.
“With all of her colleagues here this week, I think now is the time for this Minister to take a leadership role in advancing clinical trials for Multiple Sclerosis patients here in Nova Scotia...
HALIFAX, NS - Cumberland South MLA Jamie Baillie presented a petition in support of All Saints Hospital with over 1,000 signatures in the Legislature today.
The petition to "Increase the number of medical staff at All Saints Springhill Hospital which will allow for 24 hours emergency services to be continued" was introduced and accepted by the House.
"Having quality health care services close by is important and All Saints delivers that," said Baillie. "I was pleased to...
HALIFAX, NS - Cumberland South MLA Jamie Baillie says he is opposed to the NDP's plans for First Contract Arbitration because it will hurt jobs in Cumberland County.
"When I committed the PC Party to opposing this latest NDP Plan, I had in mind important Cumberland County businesses such as Ropak in Springhill, Oxford Frozen Foods and PolyCello," said Baillie. "Together, they are large employers and it is the jobs they provide that I intend to protect by speaking out against this and...
Tender closes tomorrow on asphalt plant: expected to be in the $5 million range
HALIFAX, NS - Nova Scotia’s taxpayers are about to be taken on another multi-million dollar misadventure in road paving by the NDP government.
The tender will close tomorrow for an asphalt plant to be used by a new government-run paving crew. The cost to taxpayers is estimated in the $5 million dollar range.
“After an awful misadventure in chip-sealing this year, where the...
HALIFAX, NS - The NDP government is sticking to its plan of high taxes, high power rates and job killing labour laws even as Nova Scotia's cost of living far outpaces the Canadian average. Nova Scotia's Consumer Price Index is a full percentage point above the Canadian average and has been for the past year, according to Statistics Canada data released today.
"Wages have not kept up with the rising costs, they have zero percent growth this past year," said Progressive Conservative...
PC’s say the NDP are ramming job-killing labour law through the Legislature at high speed
HALIFAX: The NDP government is moving as quickly as possible to pass the misnamed ‘Act to Prevent Unnecessary Labour Disruptions and Protect the Economy’. Unfortunately for the NDP, labour disruptions are rare and tens of thousands of employers in Nova Scotia say it will be bad for Nova Scotia’s economy.
Data from Human Resources and...
Baillie says NDP labour law is wrong legislation, wrong time, wrong reasons
HALIFAX – Opening or operating a company in Nova Scotia will be significantly ‘riskier business’ under the NDP’s misguided labour laws.
“Jobs matter most in Nova Scotia today,” said Baillie.“The government should be focused on creating jobs, not on harmful, job-killing legislation like the NDP announced today.”
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