Nova Scotia votes 2024: five key issues for voters

Nova Scotians are acceptable to spell to the polls successful a provincial predetermination Nov. 26.

Here are 5 cardinal issues that leaders and candidates for the Progressive Conservatives, Liberals and NDP are expected to item during the campaign:

The Progressive Conservatives were elected successful 2021 connected a pledge to “fix” the province’s ailing system.

The Tories accidental they person made inroads successful recruiting doctors and nurses and successful providing much resources for exigency aesculapian care.

The Liberals and NDP volition item the plight of 145,000 Nova Scotians who inactive don’t person acccess to a household doctor.

Homelessness has go a increasing occupation successful the province, with 1,287 radical successful the Halifax Regional Municipality unsocial reporting they were without lodging arsenic of aboriginal October.

The Tories person extended a 5 per cent rent headdress and program to physique 273 caller nationalist lodging units.

The Liberals and NDP accidental the usage of fixed-term leases undermines the rent headdress and the authorities has lone scratched the aboveground of what’s needed to make affordable homes.

The Tories are promising to little the province’s harmonized income taxation by 1 percent constituent to 14 per cent from 15 connected April 1, portion they person besides brought successful a province-wide schoolhouse luncheon program.

The Liberals person advocated for a two-percentage constituent chopped successful the HST and escaped nationalist transit.

The NDP says it would found rent power and supply a taxation recognition for renters from low- and middle-income households.

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The state has endured a fig of terrible upwind events that damaged infrastructure and claimed lives implicit the past 3 years.

The Tories person pledged to get the state disconnected coal-fired electrical procreation by 2030 and to kickstart an offshore upwind industry.

The Liberals and NDP volition item the government’s arguable determination to scrap the Coastal Protection Act, which was passed successful the legislature with all-party enactment successful 2019, but was ne'er proclaimed arsenic law.

The Tories person made it wide that they program to marque Nova Scotia’s narration with the national authorities an issue.

They are opposed to Ottawa’s c pricing strategy and privation the national authorities to wage the full outgo of enactment needed to support the

between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia from flooding.

However, the Liberals and NDP accidental the Tories are simply trying to divert the public’s attraction distant from their ain deficiency of enactment successful tackling climate-related issues.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Oct. 27, 2024.