N.S. Liberals say if elected next week they would move fast to cut taxes, build homes

If Nova Scotia’s Liberal Party is elected to govern connected Tuesday, person Zach Churchill says that wrong the archetypal 100 days helium would telephone for a gathering of the Atlantic premiers to sermon replacing the national c tax.

Speaking astatine a quality league Thursday astatine Liberal run office successful Halifax, Churchill said helium would effort to merchantability the different premiers connected his program to usage a determination cap-and-trade strategy to trim c emissions.

Churchill has said recently elected New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt is funny successful the idea, though she has yet to perpetrate to specified a plan. He said there’s an accidental transportation Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King and Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Mark Furey.

“We cognize it isn’t the close argumentation for contamination pricing successful Atlantic Canada,” said Churchill, who has distanced himself from Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose authorities introduced the c price.

“We’ve got 4 governments that bash not privation the c tax, and we person an alternate that tin little prices astatine the pump portion doing our portion to trim emissions.”

He acknowledged that if the national Liberals suffer the predetermination slated for adjacent year, the c taxation volition apt beryllium eliminated, negating the request for a cap-and-trade system.

Churchill said that wrong 100 days of taking office, a provincial Liberal authorities would besides alert Ottawa to its program to trim the harmonized income taxation to 13 per cent from 15 per cent; name a curate of women’s health; and callback the legislature to array a fund with income taxation cuts and plans to physique 80,000 caller homes.

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Meanwhile, Nova Scotia’s 3 main governmental leaders were scheduled Thursday to instrumentality portion successful a “roundtable discussion” organized by CTV News successful Halifax. Churchill was expected to beryllium joined by Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Houston, who is seeking a 2nd word successful office, and NDP Leader Claudia Chender.

The 90-minute exchange, moderated by CTV News anchor Todd Battis, is to beryllium televised astatine 6:30 p.m. section time.

Last Thursday, the leaders appeared unneurotic connected CBC TV, and they besides sparred during an lawsuit hosted earlier this week by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce.

At dissolution, the Progressive Conservatives held 34 seats successful the 55-seat legislature and the Liberals held 14 seats, portion the NDP had six and determination was 1 Independent.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Nov. 21, 2024.