In his opening remarks at today’s Natural Resources and Economic Development committee meeting, the CEO of NS Power stated “The most important element in our planning is the focus on care; for our employees, their families and communities. #nspoli
NS Power’s recently filed General Rate Application proposes a rate hike of 10% within 3 years for residential ratepayers. It also ensures the company’s rate of return – their profit – will improve.
While Mr. Gregg spoke at length about ensuring 'affordability' in the transition of off coal today, Mr. Gregg couldn't or wouldn't answer the question of affordability for whom.
NSP and their parent Emera are very profitable public companies. If their rate application goes through both the company and their shareholders will make more money, while ratepayers like you and I will pay more.
Thousands of Nova Scotians are struggling to pay their power bills. NS needs a Green Jobs plan, led by government, communities and stakeholders--not NSP--like the one our caucus tabled, and an urgent effort to address energy poverty while dramatically cutting emissions.
We can't do this unless we find a way to make NSP work for us. There needs to be an energy plan for Nova Scotia that puts people before profits and clearly addresses the urgency of our climate change commitments. The Houston government doesn't seem to have any plan at all.

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Feb 23
Some big news today. March 21 all remaining Covid restrictions will be gone. We’re all tired. We are done with Covid, but is it done with us? #nspoli
Where is the evidence for the sudden shift where we essentially skip an entire phase? From the beginning of the pandemic it was clear that Public Health was sharing the table with the Premier, and was driving the key decisions.
Those health decisions were enacted (sometimes well and sometimes not so well) by government. This doesn’t feel that way. Is this a political decision, consistent with Conservative governments across the country, or one that is based science, and community care?
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Feb 5
Feeling reflective on this icy morning. It’s been a week of upsetting news, and I’ve digested it isolating with family like so many others due to successive Covid infections. Here are some thoughts on the moment we find ourselves in. 🧵
The week began with a barrage of angry messages from a constituent and former supporter. They wrote, earnestly, about how vaccine mandates are just like the lessons they learned about nazi Germany in grade school and said they didn’t need a response.
I will respond here. I have dozens of relatives who died in the Holocaust. I learned about the holocaust from my grandmother, who survived. About her childhood in an increasingly fascist Europe. Moving from country to country as things got worse.
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Jul 8, 2021
To say that today’s report from the Economic Growth Council was a disappointment doesn’t quite cover it. static1.squarespace.com/static/60df527… #nspoli
In the last 15 months I have spoken with hundreds of people from all walks of life. People who own small businesses, who work in non profits, people struggling to find housing, parents hanging on by a thread after the triple tsunami of the Covid shut downs.
The one commonality—heck it’s even the federal Liberal slogan—is that we all seem to want to come out of this pandemic better than we were before. Not materially, but actually. Most people I talk to see an opportunity. We can do things differently.
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Jul 7, 2021
Just want to comment on this again. Some have pointed out that regardless of fixed dates the parliament can be dissolved at the pleasure of the Premier or whenever they lose the confidence of the House. Of course. But this is about the ability to plan. #nspoli🧵
It's not just about fixed election dates. It's also about a legislative calendar. We have two sessions, we should know when they are in advance. And they should be mandatory. The only reason not to do this is political advantage. It does not serve the people.
And while we're at it, we could also have the hours for those sessions right in the House of Assembly Act (as we have proposed). Like most jobs. Instead we routinely sit 12 hour days, or even around the clock if the government feels like it.
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Jul 15, 2020
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As education spokesperson for the @NSNDP I have spent the past several months speaking with parents and teachers and consistently and publicly asking the government for information and clarity on the plans for school in the fall. /1 #nspoli
In fact, I think you’ll agree Tim, that I have been a strong and consistent voice for public education and access to it since I was elected. Our caucus has pressed that children have a right to an education. /2
We have pressed for a plan for parents so that we don’t see the continuing trend of women’s disappearance from the workforce as families are forced to decide between work and childcare. /3
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