New nurses uniforms coming from New Brunswick

WINDSOR, NS – Hants West MLA Chuck Porter says the NDP’s high taxes and the special interests they support are costing jobs at Nova Scotia companies.

The Nova Scotia Nurses Union voted last year to adopt a common uniform at a cost to taxpayers of about $500,000. In the past, nurses sourced and paid for their own uniforms.

“Companies in Nova Scotia face an uphill battle as it is - they are over-taxed and over burdened and now they have to worry about their own government taking away their livelihood,” said Porter. “The NDP are making it harder to create jobs in Nova Scotia and small businesses are paying the price.”

HENS Uniforms, a small Windsor company, sells hospital garb. The NDP government’s new adherence to single-sourced black and white uniforms has cost two employees their jobs, and owner Heather Donohue says it is doubly hurtful because the contract for the new uniforms was just awarded to a New Brunswick company.

“What bothers me as a taxpayer is that I am now paying for uniforms that I never paid for before and the profits from the sales will benefit a New Brunswick company,” Donohue said.

“The NDP’s ‘jobsHere’ program is costing taxpayers $200 million but Nova Scotians aren’t seeing evidence that it is actually creating jobs,” said Porter, noting the latest Statistics Canada figures show 3,300 jobs have been lost in the Annapolis Valley in the past two years.

Porter says a PC government will encourage job creation by getting the fundamentals right: balancing the budget, lowering taxes, eliminating unnecessary regulation and adopting an energy plan that integrates economic and environmental goals.

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