As your MLA Danny will continue to build up our region by:
> Focusing on getting shovels in the ground for the new school in Trenton
> Continuing the investment in Affordable Housing in Pictou Centre
> Supporting local non-profit organizations
Danny MacGillivary and Tim Houston's PCs are:
- Hiring more doctors, nurses, and allied healthcare professionals
- Lowering taxes by indexing tax brackets, keeping more money in your pocket.
- Investing in our seniors with the Seniors Care Grant.
- Introducing $750 Senior Care Grant
- Building 5,700 single long-care spaces, with 1 hour of care per resident
- High-dose flu vaccine for all seniors aged 65+
- Removing fees for Home Oxygen Services and the Specialized Equipment Program
- Free shingles vaccine to all Nova Scotians aged 65+
- Reducing the HST to 14%
- Increasing the basic personal exemption on provincial income tax from $8,744 to $11,744
- Raising minimum wage to $16.50
- Fighting Liberal carbon tax
- Lowering down payments for the First Time Homeowners Program, lowering the minimum downpayment to 2% up to $500,000
- Making vacant land parcels available to communities for $! to develop affordable housing options.
- Protecting renters with a 5% rent cap.
- Lowering down payments for the first time Homeowners Program.
- Decrease the small business tax rate from its current 2.5% down to 1.5%
- Increase the small business threshold from its current %500.000 up to $700,000
- A feasibility study to build a light rail for commuters.
- Eliminating tolls on MacDonald and MacKay Bridges to save communuters.
- Introducing the Nova Scotia School Lunch Program.
- Remove cell phones from classrooms.
- Opening more than 6,00 new childcare spaces.
- "More Opportunities for Skilled Trades" tax advantage for eligible Skilled Trades Workers
- Training more teachers, faster through a re-established Nova SCotia Teachers College.
- New medical school campus at CBU.
- Creating a Nova Scotia Travel Nurse Team, eliminating costly private contractors.
- Opening a Menopause Centre of Excellence
Affordability
Fuel and transportation costs
PC's promises
Remove tolls on the Macdonald and MacKay Bridges
"Eliminating tolls on Macdonald and MacKay Bridges to improve the flow of traffic in the HRM." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
"Removing tolls on the MacKay and Macdonald bridges is expected to cost $40 - $50 million and will be implemented by April 1, 2025." — pcpartyns.ca, retrieved 2024-11-10
Run a feasibility study to consider building light rail
"A feasibility study to build light rail for commuters that will give Nova Scotians more of the most precious asset: time. Less time in traffic, less time commuting means more time for what matters most: family and community. Rail routes to be explored will begin with Windsor to Mill Cove, Bedford and in CBRM." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
Minimum wage
PC's promise
Increase Nova Scotia's minimum wage to $16.50 in one year
Public transit
PC's promise
Run a feasibility study to consider building light rail
"A feasibility study to build light rail for commuters that will give Nova Scotians more of the most precious asset: time. Less time in traffic, less time commuting means more time for what matters most: family and community. Rail routes to be explored will begin with Windsor to Mill Cove, Bedford and in CBRM." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
Tax measures and rebates
PC's promises
Reduce the HST by one percentage point to 14%
Increase the personal basic exemption on provincial income tax from $8,744 to $11,744
Climate Change & the Environment
Oil and gas development
PC's promise
Encourage production of hydrogen and aviation fuel
"Focus on the smart development of our energy and natural resources sectors through Nova Scotia's Clean Energy Plan, which will in turn provide more opportunities for families and result in fewer of our children going 'out west' for work. It will make Nova Scotia a world class energy producer in hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel.
The construction of these two industries will provide a decade of new construction jobs, along with new high paying long-term jobs that will benefit the entire economy and Province."
— Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
Public transit
PC's promise
Run a feasibility study to consider building light rail
"A feasibility study to build light rail for commuters that will give Nova Scotians more of the most precious asset: time. Less time in traffic, less time commuting means more time for what matters most: family and community. Rail routes to be explored will begin with Windsor to Mill Cove, Bedford and in CBRM." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
Education
School safety
PC's promises
Ensure school administrators have powers to suspend students and address problem behaviours using their own professional judgement
"Ensure the new Code of Conduct gives school administrators the power they deserve, including the power to suspend students and address problem behaviours. It will give administrators the ability to use their professional judgement to find the balance between an individual students' right to education with the broader student bodies' right to learn in a safe environment." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
Hire two police officers to work with the Department of Education regarding security protocols and incident prevention and response
"Hire two police officers to work within the Department of Education and focus exclusively on supporting school teams across the Province with security protocols, incident prevention and incident response." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
Health & Healthcare
Health staffing
PC's promise
Create an internal travel nursing team, so as to stop relying on external companies for health staffing
"The new internal nursing team will employ nurses out of the Nova Scotia Health Authority. A pilot program focussed on Emergency Department nurses will launch by the end of 2024. The estimate for the 30-nurse pilot travel nurse team is approximately $5.3 million. If the Province were to hire 30 private agency nurses, the cost would be $8.2 million, resulting in savings of $2.9 million under the PC plan." — pcpartyns.ca, retrieved 2024-11-10
Hospitals
PC's promise
Make parking free at all Nova Scotia Health facilities and the IWK
Seniors
PC's promise
Provide the shingles vaccine for free to everyone 65 and older
"Implement a universal (no cost) shingles program for all Nova Scotians 65 and older, giving free access to the vaccine to everyone." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
Women's health
PC's promises
Create a Menopause Centre of Excellence
"Support women's health and create Canada's first Menopause Centre of Excellence." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
Consider adding new MSI billing codes for menopause counselling
"In addition, the re-elected PC Government will also explore adding new MSI billing codes for menopause counselling to support family doctors as they in turn support women." — pcpartyns.ca, retrieved 2024-11-10
Housing & Homelessness
Home purchases and ownership
PC's promise
Create a First Time Home Owners Program with credit unions to decrease down payments to 2%
"A re-elected PC Government will enter into a new agreement with participating credit unions to expand this program to first-time home buyers purchasing a home up to $500,000 in value. Whereas today these prospective homebuyers must provide a 5% down payment, they would only have to pay a 2% down payment under the PC Plan. Participating credit unions would assess the applicants to ensure their income is satisfactory to support the mortgage they want, and the provincial government would provide a loan guarantee to participating credit unions for any deficiencies in the event of a default." — pcpartyns.ca, retrieved 2024-11-10
Public and affordable housing
PC's promise
Sell vacant land parcels to communities for $1 on the condition that they're used to build affordable housing
Jobs, Businesses, & Labour
Minimum wage
PC's promise
Increase Nova Scotia's minimum wage to $16.50 in one year
Oil and gas development
PC's promise
Encourage production of hydrogen and aviation fuel
"Focus on the smart development of our energy and natural resources sectors through Nova Scotia's Clean Energy Plan, which will in turn provide more opportunities for families and result in fewer of our children going 'out west' for work. It will make Nova Scotia a world class energy producer in hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel.
The construction of these two industries will provide a decade of new construction jobs, along with new high paying long-term jobs that will benefit the entire economy and Province."
— Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10
Startups and small businesses
PC's promises
Decrease the small business tax rate from 2.5% to 1.5%
Increase the small business threshold from $500K to $700K
Biography
submitted by the candidate or their team
Danny has a track record of making things happen for Pictou County. He served as the mayor of Stellarton for eight years and led the successful relaunch of Pictou County Transit, which serves more than 4,000 residents each month.
Danny is Pictou County through and through. He has worked to make the area stronger by founding the Pictou County Fuel Fund, Habitat for Humanity's Pictou County Chapter and the Pictou County Affordable and Supportable Housing Association.
Danny was born and raised in Pictou County. He graduated high school in Pictou County and attended Saint Frances Xavier University in Antigonish, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in business administration majoring in accounting.
Danny worked as the cost and budget manager for Trenton works, the YMCA manager of accounting and CEO, then executive of CHAD transit. Danny, while manager of CHAD, started and managed Pictou County Transit.