Liberal Fisheries Critic Michel Samson is calling on the government to play a more direct role in consulting with lobster industry representatives and the federal government to develop a plan to stabilize the price of lobster to fair levels.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says 6,400 fewer Nova Scotians are working because of the Dexter government’s failed economic management.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says recent reports about Irving’s plans to outsource shipyard jobs and send them offshore is troubling and he believes it undermines Nova Scotia's ability to create a shipbuilding cluster in Nova Scotia.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the number of unemployed women has increased by 30 per cent in the last year and the youth unemployment rate is almost at 20 per cent in Nova Scotia.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the Dexter government’s economic mismanagement has resulted in the loss of 7,700 jobs in the last year.
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Liberal economic development critic and MLA for Glace Bay Geoff MacLellan says the Dexter government’s economic mismanagement has resulted in the loss of 3,200 jobs in Cape Breton over the last year.
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Liberal agriculture critic Leo Glavine says news of layoffs at O.H. Armstrong Limited in Kingston means 14 people are without work and is another setback for the province’s farm community.
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Liberal finance critic Diana Whalen says the Dexter government must back away from its wrong-headed focus on pushing entrepreneurial U-Vint and You-Brew owners out of business and their employees out of work.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says Cape Bretoners are suffering as a result of Dexter’s failed job strategy and Harper’s EI changes as the number of employed shrinks and the number of unemployed skyrockets.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the latest employment numbers show that the Harper government’s EI changes will hurt women and youth in Nova Scotia.
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Liberal economic development critic Geoff MacLellan says with 8,600 full time jobs losses in the last year and 5,000 in the last month alone, it’s time for Dexter to replace his economic development minister and throw out his government’s failed jobs strategy.
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Liberal MLA for Yarmouth Zach Churchill says Premier Dexter’sstatements this morning during an interview with CBC’s Information Morning show how out of touch he and his government are when it comes to the economic struggles of Southern Nova Scotia.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the drastic changes federal Conservatives have imposed on the Employment Insurance program will unfairly punish seasonal workers and industries across Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada when they take effect on January 6th.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says Liberals have obtained internal DSTN communication that indicates DSME is getting ready to create an engineering firm in Houston, Texas to support DSTN’s diversification efforts.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says internal documents show the Dexter government has known about DSME Trenton’s plans to diversify into oil and gas to compete against local companies since April, but remained silent.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says comments by NDP cabinet ministers about the partially government-owned DSME Trenton facility over the weekend are off the mark and are merely excuses for the NDP’s inability to make smart investment decisions with tax dollars.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says there are more Nova Scotians unemployed now than during the recession and that the trend of Nova Scotians being forced from full time work into part time work continues.
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Liberal House leader Michel Samson says the NDP government is handing out patronage appointments to party faithful after having spent years in opposition criticizing the appointment process.
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Liberal Workers’ Compensation Board critic Keith Colwell says the Dexter government is moving to prevent the Pictou County Injured Workers’ Association from conducting case work.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the federal government, the IMF and the OECD say economic growth will slow in the coming year, but the Dexter government is refusing to give Nova Scotians an honest picture of our province’s economic outlook.
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Liberal natural resources critic Andrew Younger says the Dexter government needs to extend the off highway fuel tax rebate, a rebate available to other resource sectors in Nova Scotia, to the mining industry.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the number of people with full-time jobs dropped by 8,600 in the last year.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says all three political parties need to cooperate to fight against Stephen Harper’s EI changes - changes that will hurt key Nova Scotian industries which account for $5.5 billion in economic activity.
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Liberal finance critic Diana Whalen says the Dexter government must bring its plans to outsource the management of the province’s financial information to a multinational corporation to the legislature and that the Nova Scotia Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Review Officer should view the deal before it’s signed.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the Dexter government's dismal record when it comes to signing big deals with big business and the complexity of the Stern deal are reasons Nova Scotians should be concerned.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the province needs to bring forward an economic development plan for the Strait that is similar in size to the Stern deal and invests in new and local business development, economic diversification, and retraining.
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Liberal MLA for Yarmouth Zach Churchill says he is encouraged by Premier Darrell Dexter’s about-face in finally committing provincial dollars to a Yarmouth-US ferry three years after his NDP government recklessly eliminated the service.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the finance minister’s refusal to say whether the province would receive repayment of any of the money loaned in the Stern deal highlights the need for Nova Scotians to see the recommendation made by the Jobs Fund committee when it was consulted on the bailout package.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the Dexter government is ignoring jobs of tomorrow to focus on struggling industries while causing uncertainty in Nova Scotia’s digital media community by refusing to commit to extending the digital media tax credit.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the Dexter government must move quickly to make apprenticeship changes now by addressing the problematic legislation and by beginning to negotiate inter-provincial apprenticeship agreements.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says Darrell Dexter and the NDP government have doubled the book value of loans from its economic development fund and lost 7,900 full time jobs in the last three years.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says Darrell Dexter and the NDP government’s decision to put the interests of big business over those of local companies will hurt SWSDA creditors who are owed $2.3 million.
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Liberal economic development critic Geoff MacLellan says economic development minister Percy Paris should check his facts about the DSME Trenton deal because only 66 of the promised 500 jobs remain.
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Liberal economic development critic Geoff MacLellan says the Nova Scotia economy was the worst performing economy in Canada under Darrell Dexter – it only grew by 1.93 per cent between 2009 and 2011.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says Premier Darrell Dexter’s corporate welfare approach to economic development has seen a whopping $474.75 million in taxpayers’ money handed to five corporations only to watch those companies lay off 1,063 Nova Scotians.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says with 5,800 full time jobs lost in the last year and 6,900 lost in the last six months, it is time for Darrell Dexter and his government to stop spending tax dollars promoting its failed job creation scheme.
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Liberal youth critic Zach Churchill says Nova Scotia’s youth are struggling under the highest youth unemployment rates in Canada as youth unemployment, including involuntary part-time work, approaches 31.9 per cent.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says it is unacceptable the transition office promised to assist the laid off workers at Bowater has yet to materialize even though it was promised by Premier Dexter last month.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the $25 million originally allotted for equipment and efficiency upgrades as part of the failed Bowater bailout needs to be made available to the community to support the people as they struggle to adjust to their new economic reality.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the decision to indefinitely idle the Bowater Mersey paper mill in Liverpool is a devastating and costly one for the mill’s employees, the people of the South Shore and taxpayers across the province.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the Dexter government should call the federal minister responsible for Nova Scotia Peter MacKay before the province’s economic development committee and force him to defend his government’s changes to EI.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the Dexter government’s economic mismanagement is creating further stress in Nova Scotia as the number of EI claimants increases just as the Harper government announces its changes to the program.
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Liberal agriculture critic Leo Glavine says that the agriculture sector would be devastated by the Harper government’s proposed changes to EI.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the Dexter government must provide an update to their provincial job creation strategy, a request also made by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says power rates are the leading factor driving up the cost of doing business in Nova Scotia.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the province must extend similar pension solvency exemptions to the Halifax Regional Municipality as were extended to Dalhousie.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says news of two more shutdowns at the Bowater paper mill in Brooklyn again casts serious doubts on the $90 million dollars in taxpayer money the Dexter government gave the mill’s corporate owners.
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Liberal MLA for Yarmouth says the Dexter government’s decision to study the multitude of studies in support of a Yarmouth ferry is a waste invaluable time.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says that reducing the amount of red tape faced by small businesses is an important concern and it is unacceptable for Nova Scotia to have fallen so far behind.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says he is disappointed with the Dexter government’s handling of the Bowater deal.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil said it is irresponsible for the Dexter government to turn a blind eye to the economic problems facing rural Nova Scotia.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says that with first contract arbitration the Dexter government is busy disrupting labour relations and attempting to fix a problem that does not exist.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the Dexter government’s dismal record on job creation has forced thousands of Nova Scotians out of work and pushed thousands more out of the province’s job market altogether.
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Liberal MLA for Richmond, Michel Samson, said that the indefinite closure of NewPage and the loss of jobs is the result of years of NDP and Tory economic mismanagement.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says that the latest job numbers show 5,000 month-to-month full-time job losses and that the province has 4,100 fewer jobs than this time last year.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil is troubled that Finance Minister Graham Steele believes the recent job numbers “are an encouraging sign.” The Liberal leader pointed to three troubling trends that must be addressed.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil told the audience at the Yarmouth and Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon today that a Liberal government would commit a financial investment to an international ferry link between Yarmouth and New England.
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"Partnership was one theme of Nova Scotia Liberal leader Stephen McNeil’s address to supporters at the Kings South Liberal Association nomination meeting April 26 in Wolfville."
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"The Liberal MLA for Glace Bay says the latest unemployment numbers are alarming, but they may be even higher than the statistics indicate."
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"I'm responding to the opinion piece by James D. Irving that ran in this newspaper on Feb. 23."
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"Nova Scotia Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil attacked the Harper government over employment insurance changes Saturday, saying changes to the program will hurt women and youth in this province."
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It's time to invest in the people of our province.
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Nova Scotia Liberal leader Stephen McNeil in the Chronicle Herald regarding DSME Trenton.
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"McNeil told reporters that because the province has already invested $60 million in the plant and owns a 49 per cent equity stake, it runs the risk of killing private sector jobs."
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"Glavine said it's high time for the rules to be in place, considering the controversy surrounding the farms in the Annapolis Valley and southwest Nova Scotia."
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An interview in the Yarmouth Vanguard with Nova Scotia Liberal leader Stephen McNeil.
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"Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil said Tuesday his colleagues should unite in opposing the changes."
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“This report should have been done three years ago before the decision was made to cut the ferry service. There has been a lot of damage done to the tourism infrastructure of southwestern Nova Scotia that is going to take a lot of investment to bring back.”
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"...McNeil sees Burnside, and other business parks for that matter, as an under-utilized resource that needs to be better tapped in the future to create more sound economic policy.
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"For some reason the government is not willing to acknowledge that they made a mistake," said McNeil.
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"It is time that we began to champion small and intermediate size industries and businesses that are sustainable."
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"Above all, it's long past time for Nova Scotia's economic policy to modernize and stop trying to pick winners and losers in a winner take all strategy."
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From the Chronicle Herald: Liberals also vow to ensure future of Yarmouth, Digby and Pictou ferries
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Nova Scotia Liberal leader featured in the Cape Breton Post following his speech at the Sydney and Area Chamber of Commerce.
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Nova Scotia Liberal leader Stephen McNeil featured in the Yarmouth Vanguard.
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MLA for Yarmouth Zach Churchill featured in the Chronicle Herald
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Kings West MLA Leo Glavine featured in the King's County Register.
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"Next week’s transfer of $23.8 million from taxpayers to the Bowater mill’s parent company could be helping the parent’s hostile bid for another Quebec company, says Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil."
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Liberal MLA Zach Churchill's comments featured in the Yarmouth Vanguard.
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Liberals Zach Churchill (Yarmouth), Harold (Junior) Theriault (Digby-Annapolis) and Wayne Gaudet (Clare) and Conservative Chris d'Entremont (Argyle) asked business people and anyone else with a story to tell Monday night to say how the loss of the ferry affected them this summer.
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