Voters in Nova Scotia go to the polls on Nov. 26. At dissolution, the Progressive Conservatives held 34 seats in the 55-seat legislature, the Liberals held 14 seats, the NDP had six and there was one Independent.
Progressive Conservatives: — Increase the basic personal exemption on the Nova Scotia income tax to $11,744 from $8,744.— Remove the tolls from the two Halifax harbour bridges at a cost to government coffers of $40 million.
— Reduce the minimum required down payment for first-time buyers on a home costing up to $500,000 to two per cent from five per cent under a loan program administered by local credit unions.— Make parking free at all Nova Scotia hospitals and health-care centres at a cost of $8 million. — Grant order-making powers to the privacy commissioner so that rulings related to access to information requests and other privacy matters can be enforced.— Remove the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax on all food that isn't already tax-free, such as snack foods, granola products, and rotisserie chickens, at a cost of $11 million annually.
— Offer a one-time $15,000 bonus to professionals such as pharmacists and therapists who commit to five years of service in the new collaborative care centres; double the existing incentive for doctors to $10,000 a year from $5,000.— Establish a public inquiry into illegal fishing; introduce a minimum fine for people caught buying illegally harvested lobster; create a dedicated fisheries enforcement unit and separate commercial fisheries office.
— Offer an affordable homes rebate that would help households with incomes of less than $70,000 save an average of $900 per year on rent or mortgage payments.— Open 45 doctor clinics across the province to provide primary care at a cost of $60 million in the first year of the plan.
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