HALIFAX, NS - Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie says Premier Darrell Dexter and his NDP are the ones to blame driving power rates up.

"The NDP have no one to blame but themselves for skyrocketing power rates," said Baillie. "The NDP's secret study, released today, was not the independent analysis of Muskrat Falls mega-project that families and ratepayers deserve." 

FACT: The Dexter NDP drove power rates up 30 per cent in three years,...

PC’s say NDP puts private property rights in question

HALIFAX, NS – Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie says Premier Darrell Dexter needs to immediately reassure Nova Scotians that an NDP bill limiting the rights of private property owners won’t go a step farther.

On the last day of the fall sitting, the NDP introduced Bill 161, a dangerous piece of legislation that is causing outrage in rural communities, and uncertainty about private...

HALIFAX, NS – Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie says the NDP’s political decision to move Maintenance Enforcement workers to New Waterford, home of Deputy Premier Frank Corbett, from other rural communities is leaving women and children in the lurch.

“The upheaval the NDP have caused for vulnerable women and children for their own political gain is unacceptable, and it is proof of the NDP’s incompetence,” said Baillie. “They made a...

Dexter NDP forces 1,100 from region to look for work elsewhere

SPRINGHILL, NS – Cumberland South MLA Jamie Baillie says bad management by the Dexter NDP is killing jobs on the North Shore and forcing families to look for new opportunities away from home.

According to a Statistics Canada report released last week, employment has dropped by 1,900 in the last month alone. 1,800 of those were full-time jobs. In addition, 1,100 people have stopped looking for work and...