"Provide immediate relief with a Gas Tax Holiday by cutting the gas tax, saving you 15.5 cents per litre at the pump every time you fill up. We will keep this cut in place while inflation is high and as we work to bring down your costs." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"Lowering costs and improving public transit options for commuters by making the Halifax Harbour ferries free. We'll expand transit options in the HRM by fast-tracking the recommendations included in the HRM Rapid Transit Strategy, including more rapid bus lines, more ferry routes, and more options to get you home to your family faster." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"The Nova Scotia Energy Poverty Task Force suggested that a bill assistance discount to income-qualified households of 50% for both electricity and fuel oil. We'll implement the recommendation, providing a 50% discount on your power bill, for electricity and oil, saving the average household $1,000 annually." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"We will bring back the Coastal Protection Act, pass and enforce that Act to better protect our coastline from climate change and private development impacts." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"Lowering costs and improving public transit options for commuters by making the Halifax Harbour ferries free. We'll expand transit options in the HRM by fast-tracking the recommendations included in the HRM Rapid Transit Strategy, including more rapid bus lines, more ferry routes, and more options to get you home to your family faster." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"Connecting you to a family doctor faster by moving to automatic, location-based attachments. In a primary care crisis, our priority is to connect patients and doctors as quickly as possible - this universal, automatic attachment model is being seen more and more around the globe as the best way to create primary care connections and the fastest way of reducing family doctor wait times." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"As part of a realistic and long-term health human resources strategy we'll, new recruitment and retention incentives in return for a long-term Nova Scotia residency guarantee." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"Removing hospital parking fees for families with a loved one needing care and the workers providing it." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"Delivering supportive, safe, quality care when a mental health crisis is reported to 911. When people are in crisis and don't know where to turn, we're going to make sure they get the urgent and compassionate care they need. We will fast-track the expansion of civilian-led and health-focused crisis response teams across the province - this will free up police resources and help reduce stigma for those suffering from mental illness." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"The vast majority of health care now takes place in the home, provided by friends or family members. Such care needs can be acute, long-term and vary considerably. In order to support as many caregivers as possible, Claudia Chender and the Nova Scotia NDP will create a new Caregivers Tax Credit of $1,400 that can be claimed by any Nova Scotian who is providing ongoing voluntary care to a family member, a friend or a neighbour in the province." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"Helping prevent cervical cancer by detecting it earlier. We will provide home self-screening kits to test for human papillomavirus (HPV) - making it easy for people to proactively detect the virus before it leads to cervical cancer." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"Improving maternity care across the province through a new midwifery strategy that increases the number of midwives in Nova Scotia and expands their scope of reproductive and sexual health care services - including more services like IUD insertion and prescribing Mifegymiso - to help ease the pressure on other primary care providers while providing more personalized care for people." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"Protecting women against health care risks like heart disease and osteoporosis, and reduce the risk of cancer, by providing free menopause treatment with HRT." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"Providing $900 housing rebates for low-income renters and homeowners by bringing in a new rent and mortgage tax rebate for low- and middle-income households. The Affordable Homes Rebate will help hundreds of thousands of renters and homeowners by providing an average annual rebate of $900 when their household incomes are under $70,000 a year - so it will benefit approximately half of all Nova Scotia households." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"Creating a path to home ownership through a new Rent-to-Own Starter Homes Program that combines more home construction with lower up-front costs for first-time buyers. We'll work with the growing factory-built home construction industry to deliver high quality, energy efficient, affordable homes to first-time home buyers with a household income of less than $100,000 per year. Rents will be used to build equity in the home for the new owner." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"We'll also close the Houston fixed-term lease loophole that has allowed landlords to exploit Nova Scotia's tight rental market and charge double-digit rent increases." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"Providing $900 housing rebates for low-income renters and homeowners by bringing in a new rent and mortgage tax rebate for low- and middle-income households. The Affordable Homes Rebate will help hundreds of thousands of renters and homeowners by providing an average annual rebate of $900 when their household incomes are under $70,000 a year - so it will benefit approximately half of all Nova Scotia households." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"Doubling the Cape Breton Regional Municipality finance grant and making it permanent increasing from $15M to $30M in the first year." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"Creating real incentives to support local business through a buy local program that is inclusive and allows entrepreneurs, rather than corporations, to thrive." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

"Investing more in training and apprenticeships to help make sure Nova Scotia has the highly skilled and well-qualified workers businesses are looking for." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16