N.S. election: Party leaders make announcements on campaign trail [Video]

Nova Scotia’s top political party leaders returned to the campaign trail Tuesday after taking Monday off for Remembrance Day.

Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Houston is promising to reduce taxes on small businesses if re-elected, NDP Leader Claudia Chender announced the creation of a rent-to-own starter home program, while Liberal Leader Zach Churchill vowed to “deliver a better deal for the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.”

PCs promise to lower taxes on small businesses

Houston says if re-elected he will change the amount small businesses are taxed in order to allow them to grow, reinvest and hire more people.

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“Any plan for higher wages in Nova Scotia has to start with small businesses,” said Houston.

The PC leader says he will reduce the province’s small-business tax rate from 2.5 per cent to 1.5 per cent. He says he will also raise the small business tax …