Where the leaders are: Day 9
Posted Sep 16, 2013 06:59:35 AM.
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Health-care issues were the focus on the weekend as the Nova Scotia election campaign entered its second week.The N-D-P plans to further reduce spending on health care administration if it wins the October 8th Nova Scotia election.
Health Minister David Wilson says the party is promising to save between six million and eight million dollars in administration costs annually by the end of 2017.
Wilson released few other details and couldn’t say how many jobs could be affected, but says the savings would be put back into patient care.
The Nova Scotia Liberals say they would spend an estimated 6.5 million dollars annually on a graduate training program for businesses if the party wins next month’s election.
Leader Stephen McNeil says the program will provide payroll incentives to businesses that provide a minimum of 12 months of employment and training to new university and college graduates.
McNeil says many of the details will be worked out with small business owners if his party forms the next government.
The Progressive Conservatives say they would create up to 20-thousand jobs over four years through a combination of tax and spending cuts and a five-year freeze on power rates.
Leader Jamie Baillie visited a Halifax-area business today to highlight the jobs plan released last week as part of his party’s election platform.
Baillie says making the province a tax-free zone for small business would put about 150 million dollars back into small business coffers.
