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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plane only touched down in Nova Scotia Friday, but the federal government’s influence was at work far and wide throughout the province this week.that, among other things, would allow up to eight units a lot, depending on lot size in most residential areas of the urban core.
But part of the backstory to the Northern Pulp saga is the more than $100 million the feds committed to clean up the Boat Harbour tidal estuary beside the Pictou Landing First Nation into which pulp mill effluent had poured for more than half a century. Instead, his jacket elsewhere and his shirtsleeves rolled in deference to the Nova Scotia heat, he spoke about health care and fairness, two subjects about which we will hear plenty from the prime minister in the days ahead with a federal election in the not-too-distant.
In a wide-ranging interview, the prime minister spoke candidly on a number of matters. His comments have been edited and condensed for reasons of space and time.“We’re playing catch up for decades of underinvestment in housing. But what we're doing now is through aggressive use of rezoning, through densification, through things like the $80-million Housing Accelerator fund agreement with Halifax. That's changing the way housing is built across the municipality.
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