Nova Scotians should be upset at what ISN’T in the Liberal government’s budget, says the president of CUPE Nova Scotia, Nan McFadgen. “What we didn’t see is money to improve the resident-staff ratio in nursing homes or for new long-term-care beds,” says McFadgen. “Instead, we saw a lot of self-congratulation and corporate handouts. “The corporate tax cuts in the budget could have paid for hundreds of thousands of hospital bed-days, retrofitting thousands of homes, or educating thousands of students. Instead, that money is going to corporate profits.” McFadgen says the budget does nothing to address staffing shortages in health care, and the stress this puts on health care workers and their clients. “Premier McNeil likes to talk about spending our resources wisely, but his P3 hospital project is funneling money into corporate profits that we could be spending on staffing our hospitals and long-term-care facilities adequately,” she says. According to … Read more…