NDP MLAs vote to rush controversial labour law through Legislature
HALIFAX - All NDP MLAs voted in the House of Assembly to reject extra time to consult with job creators in their constituencies about a controversial new labour law.
"The NDP are pushing as hard as they can to pass a labour law that discourages job creation," said PC leader Jamie Baillie "It's disappointing that the NDP members of the Legislature don't want to...
HALIFAX, NS - Inverness MLA Allan MacMaster presented a petition in support of NewPage Port Hawkesbury pensioners with over 170 signatures in the Legislature yesterday.
The petition to "respectfully ask you and your government to give urgent attention to the protection of the value of the current pensions of retired NPPH employees and the future pension value for current employees" was introduced and accepted by the House.
"I was pleased bring forward this petition on behalf...
PC’s move “hoist” motion in Legislature to delay First Contract Arbitration bill
HALIFAX, NS - Calling the NDP’s consultation process on First Contract Arbitration “a sham”, the PC Party is using a legislative procedure to seek a delay in the passage of the legislation.
“The NDP is ramming this through when a great many Nova Scotians don’t know what it is or how it discourages job creation in our province,” said Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie. “This is the...
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...
