Lina Hamid is a proud Sudanese-Canadian, and a vocal community advocate and mother. Through her various roles in non-profit, including as Senior Manager at the United Way, she is committed to staying connected to and uplifting her community.
Lina Hamid
NDP candidate for Fairview-Clayton Park
Affordability
Childcare
NDP's promises
Establish a pilot programme with four new publicly-owned and operated childcare centres in underserved areas
Provide capital funding to schools to provide more childcare spaces
Create a centralised waitlist for childcare opportunities
Food costs
NDP's promise
Remove the provincial tax on groceries
Fuel and transportation costs
NDP's promise
Remove the gas tax until inflation is no longer high
"Provide immediate relief with a Gas Tax Holiday by cutting the gas tax, saving you 15.5 cents per litre at the pump every time you fill up. We will keep this cut in place while inflation is high and as we work to bring down your costs." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Poverty
NDP's promises
Raise income assistance rates by $100
Tie income assistance rates to the annual rate of inflation
Develop a long-term Poverty Reduction Strategy
Move those receiving the income assistance "essentials rate" up to the "boarder rate", nearly doubling the amount they receive
Public transit
NDP's promises
Make the Halifax Harbour ferries free
Fast-track recommendations from the HRM Rapid Transit Strategy, including more rapid bus lines and ferry routes
"Lowering costs and improving public transit options for commuters by making the Halifax Harbour ferries free. We'll expand transit options in the HRM by fast-tracking the recommendations included in the HRM Rapid Transit Strategy, including more rapid bus lines, more ferry routes, and more options to get you home to your family faster." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Tax measures and rebates
NDP's promises
Remove the provincial tax on phone bills, internet, and groceries
Remove the fees for driver's licenses, license plate renewals, basic identification cards, and change of name/address requests
Utility costs
NDP's promises
Provide a 50% discount on power bills for electricity and oil
"The Nova Scotia Energy Poverty Task Force suggested that a bill assistance discount to income-qualified households of 50% for both electricity and fuel oil. We'll implement the recommendation, providing a 50% discount on your power bill, for electricity and oil, saving the average household $1,000 annually." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Remove the provincial tax on phone bills and internet
Climate Change & the Environment
Climate adaptation
NDP's promise
Pass and enforce the Coastal Protection Act
"We will bring back the Coastal Protection Act, pass and enforce that Act to better protect our coastline from climate change and private development impacts." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Green construction and retrofits
NDP's promises
Remove the tax from the purchase and installation of heat pumps
Offer rebates for moving off coal and fossil fuels for home heating
Power generation
NDP's promise
Transition to renewable energy, such as wind and solar
Public transit
NDP's promises
Make the Halifax Harbour ferries free
Fast-track recommendations from the HRM Rapid Transit Strategy, including more rapid bus lines and ferry routes
"Lowering costs and improving public transit options for commuters by making the Halifax Harbour ferries free. We'll expand transit options in the HRM by fast-tracking the recommendations included in the HRM Rapid Transit Strategy, including more rapid bus lines, more ferry routes, and more options to get you home to your family faster." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Education
K-12 funding
NDP's promise
Reduce class sizes so as to make sure students get more one-on-one help
K-12 learning needs
NDP's promise
Reduce class sizes so as to make sure students get more one-on-one help
School construction and upgrades
NDP's promises
Enforce indoor air quality standards in schools
Require regular testing of water quality in schools
Use factory construction to build and add entire new, comfortable, and energy-efficient classroom wings to existing schools
Accelerate new school construction in high-growth areas
School safety
NDP's promises
Provide capital funding to improve student safety and comfort
Implement the Auditor General's recommendations to reduce school violence
Health & Healthcare
Family doctors and primary care
NDP's promises
Open 15 collaborative Family Doctor Clinics across the province within one year
Open 15 collaborative clinics per year for three more years
Move to automatic, location-based attachments to family doctors
"Connecting you to a family doctor faster by moving to automatic, location-based attachments. In a primary care crisis, our priority is to connect patients and doctors as quickly as possible - this universal, automatic attachment model is being seen more and more around the globe as the best way to create primary care connections and the fastest way of reducing family doctor wait times." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Health staffing
NDP's promise
Provide recruitment and retention incentives to doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, and other health professionals who stay in Nova Scotia
"As part of a realistic and long-term health human resources strategy we'll, new recruitment and retention incentives in return for a long-term Nova Scotia residency guarantee." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Hospitals
NDP's promise
Remove hospital park fees for hospital workers and families with a loved one needing care
"Removing hospital parking fees for families with a loved one needing care and the workers providing it." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Long-term care
NDP's promises
Build a single long-term care room for every senior who wants one
Prohibit public money from being spent to fund new beds in for-profit homes
Increase the minimum daily hours of direct care each resident receives to 4.1 hours
Mental health
NDP's promise
Fast-track the expansion of civilian-led and health-focused crisis response teams across the province
"Delivering supportive, safe, quality care when a mental health crisis is reported to 911. When people are in crisis and don't know where to turn, we're going to make sure they get the urgent and compassionate care they need. We will fast-track the expansion of civilian-led and health-focused crisis response teams across the province - this will free up police resources and help reduce stigma for those suffering from mental illness." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Prescription drugs and pharmacare
NDP's promises
Waive the deductible families pay for prescription drugs and devices covered by Family Pharmacare
Eliminate Seniors' Pharamacare premiums
Cover the costs of home cancer drugs through Pharmacare
Make the HIV prevention medication PrEP universally available to anyone who needs it
Seniors
NDP's promises
Create a $1,400 tax credit that can be claimed by anyone providing ongoing voluntary care to a family member, a friend or a neighbour
"The vast majority of health care now takes place in the home, provided by friends or family members. Such care needs can be acute, long-term and vary considerably. In order to support as many caregivers as possible, Claudia Chender and the Nova Scotia NDP will create a new Caregivers Tax Credit of $1,400 that can be claimed by any Nova Scotian who is providing ongoing voluntary care to a family member, a friend or a neighbour in the province." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Eliminate Seniors' Pharamacare premiums
Sexual and reproductive health
NDP's promises
Provide free contraceptives
Make surgical abortion procedures available in underserved regions
Increase the number of sonographers across the province to reduce abortion delays
Regulate anti-choice crisis pregnancy centres
Women's health
NDP's promises
Provide home self-screening kits to test for HPV
"Helping prevent cervical cancer by detecting it earlier. We will provide home self-screening kits to test for human papillomavirus (HPV) - making it easy for people to proactively detect the virus before it leads to cervical cancer." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Create a new midwifery strategy to increase the number of midwives in the province and expand their scope of services
"Improving maternity care across the province through a new midwifery strategy that increases the number of midwives in Nova Scotia and expands their scope of reproductive and sexual health care services - including more services like IUD insertion and prescribing Mifegymiso - to help ease the pressure on other primary care providers while providing more personalized care for people." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Provide free menopause treatment with hormone replacement therapy
"Protecting women against health care risks like heart disease and osteoporosis, and reduce the risk of cancer, by providing free menopause treatment with HRT." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Housing & Homelessness
Home construction and supply
NDP's promises
Work with municipalities to identify land that can be committed to housing construction
Work with municipalities to speed up and standardise planning and approval timelines
Allow municipalities to levy a tax on vacant lots that are zoned for residential development, but where developers are delaying builds
Home purchases and ownership
NDP's promises
Provide $900 housing rebates for low-income renters and homeowners
"Providing $900 housing rebates for low-income renters and homeowners by bringing in a new rent and mortgage tax rebate for low- and middle-income households. The Affordable Homes Rebate will help hundreds of thousands of renters and homeowners by providing an average annual rebate of $900 when their household incomes are under $70,000 a year - so it will benefit approximately half of all Nova Scotia households." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Create a Rent-to-Own Starter Homes Program to provide factory-built homes to home buyers with household income under $100K/year
"Creating a path to home ownership through a new Rent-to-Own Starter Homes Program that combines more home construction with lower up-front costs for first-time buyers. We'll work with the growing factory-built home construction industry to deliver high quality, energy efficient, affordable homes to first-time home buyers with a household income of less than $100,000 per year. Rents will be used to build equity in the home for the new owner." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Poverty
NDP's promises
Raise income assistance rates by $100
Tie income assistance rates to the annual rate of inflation
Develop a long-term Poverty Reduction Strategy
Move those receiving the income assistance "essentials rate" up to the "boarder rate", nearly doubling the amount they receive
Public and affordable housing
NDP's promise
Set a goal to build 30,000 new affordable rental homes, using federal funding
Rental housing
NDP's promises
Set allowed rate increases under rent control at 2.5%, down from 5%
Close the loophole of fixed-term leases
"We'll also close the Houston fixed-term lease loophole that has allowed landlords to exploit Nova Scotia's tight rental market and charge double-digit rent increases." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Provide $900 housing rebates for low-income renters and homeowners
"Providing $900 housing rebates for low-income renters and homeowners by bringing in a new rent and mortgage tax rebate for low- and middle-income households. The Affordable Homes Rebate will help hundreds of thousands of renters and homeowners by providing an average annual rebate of $900 when their household incomes are under $70,000 a year - so it will benefit approximately half of all Nova Scotia households." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Reverse the loosening of eviction rules
Set eviction and renoviction protection
Create a new Residential Tenancy Enforcement Unit
Lower the income cut-off for the rental supplement, so that residents spending over 30% of their monthly income on rent can receive it
Jobs, Businesses, & Labour
Economic growth
NDP's promise
Permanently double the Cape Breton Regional Municipality finance grant to $30M
"Doubling the Cape Breton Regional Municipality finance grant and making it permanent increasing from $15M to $30M in the first year." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Poverty
NDP's promises
Raise income assistance rates by $100
Tie income assistance rates to the annual rate of inflation
Develop a long-term Poverty Reduction Strategy
Move those receiving the income assistance "essentials rate" up to the "boarder rate", nearly doubling the amount they receive
Startups and small businesses
NDP's promises
Cut the small business tax rate to 1.5% from 2.5%
Create a buy local programme
"Creating real incentives to support local business through a buy local program that is inclusive and allows entrepreneurs, rather than corporations, to thrive." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Invest more in training and apprenticeships
"Investing more in training and apprenticeships to help make sure Nova Scotia has the highly skilled and well-qualified workers businesses are looking for." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16
Society & Government
Domestic abuse and gender-based violence
NDP's promises
Fund organisations that fight intimate partner violence
Ensure access to trauma-informed counselling for all survivors of sexualised violence
Human rights
NDP's promise
Fully fund the 2SLGBTQIA Action Plan
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