Nova Scotia election roundup

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(The Canadian Press)

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(Liberal-Agriculture)

The Liberals say they will invest more than $17 million in Nova Scotia’s agriculture and aquaculture industries if re-elected on May 30.

Premier Stephen McNeil says a Liberal government will create jobs by spending $9 million over three years on a new fund for the agriculture and seafood industry.

The fund will be similar to the Honeycrisp Orchard Renewal Program and will help expand markets.

McNeil also says a Liberal government would spend more than $8 million developing the province’s aquaculture industry over three years.

(The Canadian Press)

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(Tories-Health)

Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservatives are promising to improve the administration of health care in the province.

Party Leader Jamie Baillie says he would usher in site-based management in regional hospitals.

He says this will ensure decisions about health care are made closer to home with local input taken into account.

Baillie says the single provincial health board created by the Liberal government is not responding to the needs of Nova Scotians outside of Halifax.

(The Canadian Press)

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(NDP-Socialist)

Nova Scotia’s Liberals are taking aim at the N-D-P’s self-described “socialist” leader.

The Liberals say Gary Burrill is an “anti-capitalist” who supported the Leap Manifesto, which they say would be dangerous and harmful to the economy.

Burrill laughed off the Liberal release, saying he comes from a background of Christian socialism in the tradition of Tommy Douglas and other founders of the New Democratic Party.

He says he believes in a society that is egalitarian and helps the poor, but declined to refer to himself as “anti capitalist,” as the news release claims he has in the past.

(The Canadian Press)

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(N.S. Election Roundup by The Canadian Press)

The Canadian Press