Our Commitment to Education

Since being elected to govern Nova Scotia in 2013, our Liberal government has expanded spending on Education by about 30%.

This new funding has allowed us to put new resources into the classroom. We have added over 900 new teachers and added new non-teaching positions to improve education for the kids by lowering the size of classes.

Our Liberal Government has done all of these things while balancing the provincial budget!

Click here to read more about our investment in Education

Budget investments in safe and connected communities

Did you know the 2018 Provincial Budget includes the following provisions?

Budget investments in safe and connected communities include:

$16.2 million increase in Disability Support program to help more people move out of institutions, to improve respite care, and to fund more complex client cases
$2.1 million to help create eight small options homes and two community options homes
$3 million to double poverty reduction credit to $500
$4 million for initiatives under the Blueprint to End Poverty as part of a four-year, $20-million commitment
$3.4 million to fully exempt child-support payments from income assistance calculations
$2 million to help prevent domestic violence, the first year of a four-year commitment
$12.4 million more to improve public housing buildings
$3 million to offer 400 more rent supplements to low income Nova Scotians
$60 million more for a total of $285 million in capital spending on highways, bridges, and roads, which includes $10 million more to improve gravel roads for total of $20 million
Work on three significant twinning projects and four new interchanges on 100-series highways as part of a multi-year plan
$2.4 million more to expand and support community transportation under SHIFT for older Nova Scotians

A Great Community Initiative

Earlier this month, MLAs Ben Jessome and Brendan Maguire teamed up with Sportwheels Sports Excellence in Lower Sackville to run a hockey equipment drive. They’re collecting new and lightly-used hockey equipment to help low-income youth in their communities get in the game.

Read the full story here   and let’s give some thought to how we might do the same sort of thing here in Dartmouth North in the future.