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HALIFAX:<\/strong> If people are looking for answers to the cost-of-living crisis in our province, they won\u2019t find it in the Houston government\u2019s inaugural budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite projecting a $500 million deficit, those investments will do little to stem the tide of rising expenses and a slow-growing workforce in Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLet\u2019s be clear, there are good things about this budget, like continuing with the Innovation Rebate Program our government created, and more money for recipients of the province’s child benefit program. But to call this a \u2018compassionate budget\u2019 when it does nothing to protect the wallets of most Nova Scotians, is a complete misnomer,\u201d says Liberal Leader Iain Rankin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLiving in our province right now is the most expensive it\u2019s been in decades and yet this government is cutting economic spending by over $50 million.” \u201cYou\u2019d think if there was any time to introduce programs aimed to jumpstart our economy, a cost-of-living crisis would be the time to do it,\u201d says Rankin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Supports for small businesses, first-time home buyers, people on income assistance, people struggling to pay for gas and food \u2013 the one in six Nova Scotian families who sometimes go hungry \u2013 are nowhere to be found in Premier Houston\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The government\u2019s solution to the affordability crisis? Spend less, fudge promises, and hope no one notices, said Rankin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”95″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”150″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84′]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”127″] [adrotate banner=”93″] HALIFAX: If people are looking for answers to the cost-of-living crisis in our province, they won\u2019t find it in the Houston government\u2019s inaugural budget. Despite projecting a $500 million deficit, those investments will do little to stem the tide of rising expenses and a slow-growing workforce in Nova Scotia. \u201cLet\u2019s be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[3443,50,1866,94,48,3444],"class_list":["post-27387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-budget-2022","tag-halifax","tag-iain-rankin","tag-liberals","tag-n-s","tag-nspoli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27387","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=27387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The Houston government has made zero progress on its two signature economic promises, the Better Pay Cheque Guarantee and the Nova Scotia Loyal program. Their economic recovery plan seems to rest on little more than a hope and a prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n