N.S. NDP release election platform [Video]

The Nova Scotia NDP unveiled its election platform Wednesday at press event in Halifax, where party leader Claudia Chender says an NDP government would improve the lives of all Nova Scotians, by creating more affordable housing and improving access to health care.

For Chender and the NDP, housing is the issue driving this election and they plan to make housing more affordable and put an end to spiraling rent increases.

“We hear everywhere we go that people can not afford a place to live and that is absolutely our focus,” said Chender, who called a home the foundation of our lives and the core of our well-being.

“We know if people can’t afford hosing, than they can’t be healthy, they can’t afford their groceries and other necessities, because housing is the single largest driver of costs,” said Chender. “And the cost of housing is absolutely out of control.”

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