Big News: More Canadians can access the Canadian Dental Care Plan!! Here in Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, folks are seeing a dentist for the first time in DECADES. This plan matters because oral health IS health. Did you know? 1% of ER visits every year are due to poor oral health, costing our healthcare system $1.8 [...]
Expanding Access to Life-Changing Treatments for Rare Diseases We announced a bilateral agreement with the Government of Nova Scotia, investing over $39 million to improve access to new and existing treatments for rare diseases. This funding will help ensure that more people living with rare conditions get the medications, early diagnosis, and screening they [...]
Teamwork makes the dream work. We're delivering $300,000 to help the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo continue to proudly showcase our military past and present. Thanks to my colleague MP Lena Metlege Diab for joining me in advocating for this important funding support to help keep the Tattoo’s mission strong for the future. [...]
JUST ANNOUNCED: We’re delivering $5M to establish Canada’s first large-scale bioinnovation centre—right here in Dartmouth! Dartmouth—Cole Harbour is a renowned cleantech hub, and the Neptune BioInnovation Centre will build on this incredible industry. With incredible local expertise here in Atlantic Canada, and our government’s strong support, we're investing in the future to help these [...]
This week, I announced over $7 million to help 11 different companies and organizations grow, modernize, and provide more good jobs here in Dartmouth—Cole Harbour. For too long, Atlantic Canada didn’t get the support we needed to thrive—that’s one of the reasons I ran to be your Member of Parliament. Companies and organizations in [...]
Today, I announced the sale of the Downtown Dartmouth Marine House property under the Federal Lands Initiative, so it can be turned into affordable housing! (176 Portland Street) In the hands of the Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Society, this surplus federal property will be redeveloped and transformed into over 60 safe and supportive homes. It’s [...]
We’re securing and creating thousands of jobs for Nova Scotia. The contract is signed with Irving Shipbuilding Inc to build and deliver the River-class destroyers here in Nova Scotia! Nova Scotians know how to build ships. Our skilled shipbuilders are gearing up to build the River-class Destroyers for our Royal Canadian Navy, just as [...]
Companies in Dartmouth—Cole Harbour are doing BIG things and Freshr is one of them. I just announced an investment of nearly $500,000 to help them expand their operations here in Dartmouth! This brilliant homegrown company developed a naturally derived antibacterial coating for their fully compostable food packaging film—keeping food fresher for 15-30% longer by [...]
We must ensure our energy security—now more than ever. Today, we took a big step forward with Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and First Nations partners to link, enhance, and secure our power grids while creating good jobs along the way. The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) is committing $217 million in equity financing to for [...]
We’re delivering over $55 million in long-term funding for public transit across HRM! Stable and predictable funding for transit is essential to keeping our communities connected. Back when I was a Councillor we’d advocate and dream about what we could do with predictable funding like this—it is so important. Predictable funding means that HRM [...]