Recently, I had the privilege of attending a Parks Canada ceremony, honouring Floyd H. Prosser, as a Hometown Hero. Originally from Elgin, New Brunswick, Floyd enlisted in the Canadian Army Active Service Force in 1941. He courageously served with the 1ST Canadian Armoured Brigade whose notable accomplishments led him to be honoured with the [...]
JUST ANNOUNCED: We’re investing more than $6 million to help seven small and medium-sized businesses scale up and modernize their operations here in DARTMOUTH! The investments will help Farnell Packaging Incorporated, Ring Rescue Incorporated, Sunrise Foods Incorporated, Sunsel Systems Manufacturing Corporation, Ace Machining Limited, HFX Steel Framing Solutions Inc., and Aurea Technologies Inc. adopt [...]
UPDATE: Our Government’s Bill C-64, the Pharmacare Act received Royal Assent, becoming law across Canada! As you know, I am a BIG supporter of National Universal Pharmacare. I don't believe that anyone should have to choose between paying their rent or paying for the prescription drugs they need. No one should need to stretch [...]
Back in 2022, our federal government delivered funding to support the first phase of True North Crescent with the Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia. As of today, we’ve helped fund multiple phases of this incredible development, and folks are living in these affordable townhomes with their rent geared to their income. More homes [...]
Small businesses are so important to our communities and to our economy. And they’re paying way too much in fees just to process credit card transactions. We’re working hard to change that. We’ve secured an agreement with Mastercard and Visa to cut those fees by 27%. Small businesses will start seeing savings on October [...]
I believe that all Nova Scotians should be able to see a family doctor or nurse practitioner when they need to, without delay. That’s why a few months ago we announced an additional $355 Million for Nova Scotia to improve health care in the province. This is on top of the nearly $1.4 Billion [...]
Build more homes. When we launched the National Housing Strategy in 2017, the federal government hadn’t been engaging in affordable housing for decades. Since then, there are families and individuals in Dartmouth—Cole Harbour who are living in homes built with support delivered by our government—and a lot more are underway. Along with providing funding [...]
Nova Scotians don’t deserve a 19% rate increase on our power bills!! I want you to know that our federal government stepped in and we’ve offered a federal loan guarantee to Nova Scotia Power and the Government of Nova Scotia to prevent this from happening. This will help address an energy shortfall while Nova [...]
Build more homes! We delivered over $8 Million to YWCA Halifax to help them purchase 32 affordable homes in Dartmouth’s Mount Hope Village community for families in core housing need. This means that more families will have a safe and supportive home to live in, here in Dartmouth. YWCA Halifax, who now owns and [...]
Build More Homes! Today in Dartmouth we announced a new way to make federal land available for homes and communities, including a way to: Keep the homes affordable, forever Keep the land public, forever It launched today and the first round of properties are up. And guess what? Two are in Dartmouth! Ministers Jean-Yves [...]