PCs call for HST cut on NB Campaign Trail, Liberals pledge to cap rent costs, Greens address electricity rate hikes
New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservatives, Liberals, and Greens have already made a number of new promises since the provincial election campaign officially started on Sept. 19.
Progressive Conservatives
On Sept. 23, the governing Progressive Conservatives announced plans to expand the roles of nurse practitioners, paramedics, and pharmacists to improve health-care capacity.
The party also noted that over its six-year tenure, investments in the provincial health-care system were up almost $1 billion per year. It said it added more than 120 new doctors and more than 1,000 new nurses to the system, cut primary care wait times by 70 percent, established 57 new collaborative health-care clinics, and significantly reduced hip and knee surgery wait times.
On home affordability, the party says it will build 6,000 homes per year and have 30,000 new homes built by 2030.
The PCs said they will consult with local governments and residents on whether existing supervised injection sites should continue to operate.
Liberal Party
The New Brunswick Liberal Party, led by Susan Holt, made its own commitment to improving health care, saying it would overhaul the physician compensation model, create more training and residency seats, and streamline the process for foreign-trained health-care professionals to have their credentials recognized.
