Affordability platforms
Here's what the candidates in Halifax Citadel-Sable Island, and their parties, are promising.Food costs
Fuel and transportation costs
Minimum wage
We don't have any Liberal policies on Minimum wage.
PC
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Increase Nova Scotia's minimum wage to $16.50 in one year
We don't have any NDP policies on Minimum wage.
Poverty
Liberal
We don't have any PC policies on Poverty.
NDP
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Raise income assistance rates by $100
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Tie income assistance rates to the annual rate of inflation
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Develop a long-term Poverty Reduction Strategy
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Move those receiving the income assistance "essentials rate" up to the "boarder rate", nearly doubling the amount they receive
Public transit
Tax measures and rebates
Liberal
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Reduce the HST by two percentage points to 13%
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Increase the personal basic exemption on provincial income tax from $8,744 to $15,705
PC
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Reduce the HST by one percentage point to 14%
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Increase the personal basic exemption on provincial income tax from $8,744 to $11,744
NDP
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Remove the provincial tax on phone bills, internet, and groceries
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Remove the fees for driver's licenses, license plate renewals, basic identification cards, and change of name/address requests