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From an NDP release<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n HALIFAX:<\/strong>The NDP welcomes a return to the legislature but believes it should be used to address the real needs of Nova Scotians who can\u2019t get the health care they need and are grappling with the skyrocketing cost of living.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are told that the Legislature is being recalled because of an emergency. Right now, hospital emergency departments are regularly closed across the province, over 100,000 people are without access to primary care, people across this province are sleeping in tents and so many families are struggling to pay the bills; these are the emergencies the Premier should use an emergency sitting to fix,\u201d said NDP Leader Claudia Chender. <\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”72″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cInstead the country\u2019s third highest paid Premier wants to recall the legislature to protect his own salary and block a recommendation to support child care in the House of Assembly, unfairly targeting women and young parents. We are ready to roll up our sleeves and get to work for families struggling during these uncertain times. It\u2019s why we were elected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the Houston Conservatives came to government there are thousands more people without a family doctor, more people leaving emergency departments without seeing a doctor and getting the care they need, and hospitals are over 1000 nurses short of what they need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPeople need help now,\u201d said Chender. \u201cThe NDP is ready to go to work for people and families across the province. If the Premier wants to block the recommendations of this report he can do so in a fall sitting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n “If he is looking for more than a grandstanding gesture he should be prepared to hold a full session to properly address the needs of Nova Scotians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The findings of the review included restoring MLA wage increases to match the civil service, cutting the Premier\u2019s salary and recommendations to create a child care fund for MLAs who are parents, and practice nation-to-nation relationship building with Mi\u2019kmaw to revisit provisions for a Mi\u2019kmaw Representative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Houston is the third highest paid premier in the country. Blocking this review protects his own salary while doing nothing to help working families, Chender said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”150″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”93″] [adrotate banner=”105″] From an NDP release HALIFAX:The NDP welcomes a return to the legislature but believes it should be used to address the real needs of Nova Scotians who can\u2019t get the health care they need and are grappling with the skyrocketing cost of living.\u00a0 \u201cWe are told that the Legislature is being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[3124,3952,835],"class_list":["post-30052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-claudia-chender","tag-mla-pay-raise","tag-ndp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30052","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=30052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30052\/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=30052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}