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HALIFAX:<\/strong> The Rankin government released its Capital Plan for 2021-22 today, March 23, investing $1.17 billion in schools, hospitals and improved infrastructure around the province. “Infrastructure is also an important part of the province’s economic recovery following the pandemic.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″] [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”2″] [adrotate banner=”96″] [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”113″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”78″] [adrotate banner=”95″] HALIFAX: The Rankin government released its Capital Plan for 2021-22 today, March 23, investing $1.17 billion in schools, hospitals and improved infrastructure around the province. “For the second year in row, government is investing more than a billion dollars in capital projects that will create jobs and provide modern infrastructure for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[1936,196,50],"class_list":["post-20411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-capital-plan","tag-east-hants","tag-halifax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“For the second year in row, government is investing more than a billion dollars in capital projects that will create jobs and provide modern infrastructure for today’s communities and future generations,” said Finance and Treasury Board Minister Labi Kousoulis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Highlights of the plan include:
— $178.2 million to support the QEII New Generation project and the Cape Breton Regional Municipality Health Care Redevelopment
— $95.5 million for construction, repair and renewal of other hospitals and medical facilities
— $22.4 million to replace medical equipment and ambulances
— $217.2 million to design, build, renovate and purchase schools
Capital Plan 2021-22 also includes $467 million in investments outlined in the Department of Transportation and Active Transit’s Five-year Highway Improvement Plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quick Facts:
— Capital Plan 2021-22 includes the continued design and construction of 15 schools, the demolition of one former site (Duncan Macmillan High School), and the purchase of the last four P-3 schools
— the plan is subject to approval of the 2021-22 budget in the legislature
Additional Resources:
Capital Plan 2021-22 is available online at: https:\/\/beta.novascotia.ca\/documents\/capital-plan-2021-2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Five-year Highway Improvement Plan can be found at: https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/tran\/highways\/fiveyearplan.asp<\/a>
The Nova Scotia School Capital Plan is available at: https:\/\/www.ednet.ns.ca\/capitalplan<\/a>
More information on the health-care redevelopment projects is available at https:\/\/healthredevelopment.novascotia.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n