The leader of the provincial New Democratic Party (NDP) says they’re fighting for Nova Scotians by championing solutions that will make a difference in people’s lives. | SaltWire
Nova Scotia NDP Leader Claudia Chender visited Kings County on Aug. 23, making several stops, including a visit to The Noodle Guy in Port Williams. CONTRIBUTEDNEW MINAS, N.S. — The leader of the provincial New Democratic Party says they’re fighting for Nova Scotians by championing solutions that will make a difference in people’s lives.
Increasingly, people she is speaking with express the desire to have political representation that responds to the world around them. She said Nova Scotia is inherently conservative and that is slow to change. However, the world is changing very quickly right now. She said more than 100,000 Nova Scotians now have their names on the Need a Family Practice Registry, surgical wait times are longer and staffing issues are more acute. Chender said that as people in the Annapolis Valley very well know, rural E.R.’s are “closed more than they’re open.”
For example, she was “shocked” to take her children shopping for school supplies and to see the prices. She recognizes that back-to-school shopping is beyond the reach of many Nova Scotians. She said the reverberations for people who are just shy of being able to make ends meet are massive. Sometimes people lose their housing, sometimes their children.
She said this can be positive in terms of the net benefit of good jobs. The opportunity to caretake communities and the environment “can’t be understated” but there will be challenges in that transition. The Flower Cart is working toward a new social enterprise and vocational training centre that would allow the organization to move all its programs under one roof.
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