Affordability
Fuel and transportation costs
PC's promises
"Eliminating tolls on Macdonald and MacKay Bridges to improve the flow of traffic in the HRM." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
"Removing tolls on the MacKay and Macdonald bridges is expected to cost $40 - $50 million and will be implemented by April 1, 2025." — pcpartyns.ca, retrieved 2024-11-10
"A feasibility study to build light rail for commuters that will give Nova Scotians more of the most precious asset: time. Less time in traffic, less time commuting means more time for what matters most: family and community. Rail routes to be explored will begin with Windsor to Mill Cove, Bedford and in CBRM." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
Minimum wage
PC's promise
Public transit
PC's promise
"A feasibility study to build light rail for commuters that will give Nova Scotians more of the most precious asset: time. Less time in traffic, less time commuting means more time for what matters most: family and community. Rail routes to be explored will begin with Windsor to Mill Cove, Bedford and in CBRM." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
Tax measures and rebates
PC's promises
Climate Change & the Environment
Oil and gas development
PC's promise
"Focus on the smart development of our energy and natural resources sectors through Nova Scotia's Clean Energy Plan, which will in turn provide more opportunities for families and result in fewer of our children going 'out west' for work. It will make Nova Scotia a world class energy producer in hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel.
The construction of these two industries will provide a decade of new construction jobs, along with new high paying long-term jobs that will benefit the entire economy and Province."
— Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
Public transit
PC's promise
"A feasibility study to build light rail for commuters that will give Nova Scotians more of the most precious asset: time. Less time in traffic, less time commuting means more time for what matters most: family and community. Rail routes to be explored will begin with Windsor to Mill Cove, Bedford and in CBRM." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
Education
School safety
PC's promises
"Ensure the new Code of Conduct gives school administrators the power they deserve, including the power to suspend students and address problem behaviours. It will give administrators the ability to use their professional judgement to find the balance between an individual students' right to education with the broader student bodies' right to learn in a safe environment." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
"Hire two police officers to work within the Department of Education and focus exclusively on supporting school teams across the Province with security protocols, incident prevention and incident response." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
Health & Healthcare
Health staffing
PC's promise
"The new internal nursing team will employ nurses out of the Nova Scotia Health Authority. A pilot program focussed on Emergency Department nurses will launch by the end of 2024. The estimate for the 30-nurse pilot travel nurse team is approximately $5.3 million. If the Province were to hire 30 private agency nurses, the cost would be $8.2 million, resulting in savings of $2.9 million under the PC plan." — pcpartyns.ca, retrieved 2024-11-10
Hospitals
PC's promise
Seniors
PC's promise
"Implement a universal (no cost) shingles program for all Nova Scotians 65 and older, giving free access to the vaccine to everyone." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
Women's health
PC's promises
"Support women's health and create Canada's first Menopause Centre of Excellence." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
"In addition, the re-elected PC Government will also explore adding new MSI billing codes for menopause counselling to support family doctors as they in turn support women." — pcpartyns.ca, retrieved 2024-11-10
Housing & Homelessness
Home purchases and ownership
PC's promise
"A re-elected PC Government will enter into a new agreement with participating credit unions to expand this program to first-time home buyers purchasing a home up to $500,000 in value. Whereas today these prospective homebuyers must provide a 5% down payment, they would only have to pay a 2% down payment under the PC Plan. Participating credit unions would assess the applicants to ensure their income is satisfactory to support the mortgage they want, and the provincial government would provide a loan guarantee to participating credit unions for any deficiencies in the event of a default." — pcpartyns.ca, retrieved 2024-11-10
Public and affordable housing
PC's promise
Jobs, Businesses, & Labour
Minimum wage
PC's promise
Oil and gas development
PC's promise
"Focus on the smart development of our energy and natural resources sectors through Nova Scotia's Clean Energy Plan, which will in turn provide more opportunities for families and result in fewer of our children going 'out west' for work. It will make Nova Scotia a world class energy producer in hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel.
The construction of these two industries will provide a decade of new construction jobs, along with new high paying long-term jobs that will benefit the entire economy and Province."
— Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
Startups and small businesses
PC's promises
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Biography
I pride myself as being a Community minded person, I recently helped to revitalize local Coal Dust Days by organizing a new committee, which I've been a member of past two years. Our summer festival has grown immensely the past 2 years and we are looking at expanding this upcoming summer.
My mom, Mary O'Quinn was a town councillor in New Waterford for many years. She was the longest serving female Councillor in the history of New Waterford. Politics is in my blood and I'm always there to help anyone in need.
For the past four I have represented District 11 as CBRM Councillor. Prior to this I worked as a barber and ran the local town paper the Community Press before it was shut down a few years ago. The Community Press was in existence for 28 years.
I've Also worked at Cape Breton Residential Society for 19 years as a Direct Care Worker.
I love my community and have volunteered for over 30 years with many different organizations as well as coaching local sports teams for 30+ years. I've worked closely with all service organizations in our area to lend a hand for any of their events. I've been volunteering at Coal Bowl for well over 30 years as well
The past four years I take pride in getting our local youth involved with volunteering. We've had youth volunteer at our comfort centre after Fiona, shovel out more than 230 seniors after our blizzard last winter, help out with Coal Dust Days, town cleanups and many other projects as well.
As Councillor I've also run a winter coat campaign the past four which has grown from 95 winter coats in year one to well over 600 last winter. This year's campaign kicked off this past week.
I've also set up community food cupboards around our community including one at the library to help with our food insecurity issues in our community. To help seniors I partnered with Shelly McLellan Chair of Combined Christmas Giving to start a fund for seniors in need of oil and groceries. On two years we gave out over $27,000 in heating oil to seniors in our area as well as many grocery gift cards.