Nova Scotia Liberal leadership candidate Randy Delorey has released a plan for what his government aims to accomplish in their first 30-days if elected.
The Antigonish MLA outlined four key goals that he is committing to complete within the first month of the appointment date.
“I’m ready to get to work for Nova Scotians,” said Delorey. “This is not the time to learn on the job. We are in the midst of our second wave of COVID-19, and some jurisdictions are experiencing a third wave. My priorities will be working with Dr. Strang to continue our vaccination rollout and public health measures and initiating Nova Scotia’s economic recovery.”
All four of the initiatives have some relation to the COVID-19 pandemic or its recovery;
- Meet with federal and regional leaders to address vaccination supply chain challenges.
- Identify and address opportunities to strengthen Nova Scotia’s healthcare system,
including planning for the changing landscape of COVID variants. - Convene an expert advisory group to plan for economic recovery and re-opening
requirements. - Develop a volunteer recruitment, training and deployment plan for the coming phases of
the vaccination rollout.
In addition to those plans Delorey also laid out what his spring legislative agenda would include;
- Extend virtual healthcare services and launch an 811 video medicine pilot project.
- Create virtual mental health walk-in clinics to make care quickly and easily accessible
and begin planning for physical locations across the province. - Implement a tax holiday for hospitality and food service small businesses and cap thirdparty
food delivery fees. - Defer provincial tax and loan payments for small businesses most impacted until after
the state of emergency is lifted. - Develop dental and hearing aid coverage programs for seniors, working with health and
industry partners. - Increase the hourly wage for provincially funded summer jobs for young Nova Scotians.
- Launch the public consultation process for the Sustainable Goals Act.
According to Delorey’s office, his platform was shaped by conversations with small business owners, seniors, environmental advocates and thousands of other Nova Scotians.
