Another session in the Nova Scotia Legislature has come to an end.
It ended in earnest with the provincial PC government releasing their strategic plan to improve healthcare.
Yarmouth Liberal MLA Zach Churchill believes they waited until the end of the session to avoid scrutiny.
“The healthcare plan that they released the last day we were in the legislature has zero of their platform commitments including 24/7 surgeries, 300 new doctors a year, 2000 nurses, universal mental health care, all of that was absent.”
He describes it as a retreat from their platform on healthcare.
Churchill says the cracks are starting to show in the PC government.
“I know that Houston has been high in the polls but look at the aloofness with COVID-19, the reneging on their health platform commitments and not taking a serious look at a piece of legislation that we brought in to give the CSAP an independent piece of legislation.”
Churchill is referring to the Acadian and Francophone Education Act introduced by Clare MLA Ronnie LeBlanc.
The act would ensure CSAP students would receive a Charter-compliant education.
He says after it was tabled the PC’s did not allow it to come to a vote.
Churchill also criticized the governments decision to tax non-residents, saying outside investment has benefited people in Yarmouth and the value of homes in the area.
