FREDERICTON, N.B. – As party leaders and candidates hit the road across New Brunswick campaigning for the upcoming provincial election, Global News will keep track of where they are and what they’re saying in our election notebook.
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Here’s what happened Tuesday, September 16.
Conservatives: Funding innovation
Progressive Conservative leader David Alward was in Moncton Tuesday, reiterating his pledge to spend $18 million over the next four years on the province’s knowledge and information sector.
The plan builds on the Alward government’s five-year, $82 million Innovation Agenda.
NDP: Pay Equity
NDP leader Dominic Cardy promised to introduce a Pay Equity Act if he is elected on Sept. 22.
Cardy said the new act would mandate all companies with 10 or more employees to implement a pay equity plan within four years. He said he’d also create a Pay Equity Commission to monitor and enforce the legislation.
Cardy also spoke of his plan to convert 49 per cent of NB Liquor’s future profits into an income trust that he says, would produce up to $1.1 billion. Cardy said he would immediately apply that money to pay down the provincial debt.
Green Party: Community health
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Green Party leader David Coon was unveiling his party’s plan for community health care in Fredericton Tuesday. Coon says his party would open two community health centres each year over four years at a total cost of $28 million.
He said each centre would have family doctors, nurse practitioners, social workers and physiotherapists. Coon said community health centres already work well in the province, but the services are in urgent need of expansion to offer more localized wellness programs for persons with chronic illness, seniors and their caregivers in rural communities.
Liberals: Family plan
Brian Gallant visited a Saint John daycare on Tuesday to reiterate his party’s Family Plan. It’s a plan that was announced within the first two weeks of the election campaign.
If elected, Gallant promises to create 6,000 new day care spaces, and creating a central spaces registry to make finding daycares easier.
He also spoke of his new seniors’ renovation tax credit and caregiver tax credit to help seniors and their families live better lives outside care facilities.
And he pledged to increase of the minimum wage right away, followed by several increases until it gets to $11/hour by 2017.
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