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Structural Reform For A Better  Nova Scotia 

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Dustin is a disruptor. Nova Scotia needs a disruptor more than ever. After years of watching government after government manage our province into decline, Nova Scotians are ready for something bolder. The status quo has had its chance. It’s time to break the pattern.


It’s time for a leader who has spent their life protecting Nova Scotians and Canadians. A leader who wears the Maple Leaf with pride every single day. A leader with real‑world experience on the modern challenges facing our province and the determination to turn those challenges into opportunities. A leader who understands the uncertainty of today’s world and can steer Nova Scotia through it with clarity and strength. A leader who isn’t here to reward friends or protect personal interests. A leader who hasn’t spent decades in the Federal, Provincial, or Municipal political bubble, but instead brings a fresh perspective, integrity, and purpose.

 

Nova Scotia doesn’t need more of the same. Nova Scotia needs a spark. A shift. A disruption.


It’s time to drive change and Dustin is ready to lead the way.

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Nova Scotia - A Province in Managed Decline

Ethical Government

Our current government has dropped an iron curtain and lacks transparency

  • Broke their own election laws
  • Limited media access to Ministers
  • Moved the non-partisan Comms Nova Scotia into the Premier's office
  • Gutted DNR, putting lives at risk
  • Awarded the 2024 Code of Silence Award for lacking transparency
  • Has removed accountability levers and weakened public oversight

Effective Healthcare 

Healthcare remains precarious and hard to find for many.

  • The Need a Family Practice Registry has more than doubled
  • Universal Mental - Health Guarantee is unfulfilled
  • Year-over-year increases in unscheduled ER closures
  • Strained and gap-filled EMS
  • No transparency in health care funding agreements

Nova Scotia Governments have managed the decline of the province without recognizing the potential and those who call this great province home. We need a leader who believes we can and deserve better. The Nova Scotia status quo needs to be disrupted, and Dustin will do that.

Housing Affordability

Housing remains out of reach for generations of Nova Scotians

  • Housing has only increased marginally, with costs continuing to be acute
  • No clear social housing quotas
  • Little to no non-market housing
  • Spiking homelessness in the province
  • Rental problems persist, worse among student populations.

Human Trafficking, IPV

Human Trafficking, IPV, and GBV aren't getting better in Nova Scotia; it's getting worse.

  • At least 8 Nova Scotians were murdered in 2025 as a result of IPV

  • Nova Scotia has the highest rate of police-reported human trafficking in Canada at 4.5 per 100,000

  • Commercial sexual exploitation is a key part of trafficking in Nova Scotia

  • No core, structured funding exists to combat these problems

Cost of Living Challenges

Living in Nova Scotia gets harder every year, with too many struggling for daily life

  • Nova Scotia has the highest number of food-insecure households in Canada
  • Nova Scotia has some of the highest rates of child hunger 
  • Food Banks have seen around a 52% increase since 2022
  • The 2021 Better Paycheque Guarantee has been abandoned

Modernizing Nova Scotia

Modernizing and educating Nova Scotians about the digital world and its threats is nonexistent.

  • Voted down the creation of a child and youth advocate
  • No digital social awareness programs for Nova Scotians 
  • Unawareness of digital threats such as The Coms, Nihilistic Violent Extremism, sextortion, etc., targeting minors
  • No digital sovereignty policies putting Nova Scotia data at risk

DUSTIN'S DRIVE FOR A BETTER NOVA SCOTIA

  • Implement Proportional Representation for Nova Scotia elections;
  • Pass legislation to give the Privacy Commissoner order-making power and an officer of the Legislature;
  • Empower the Nova Scotia Conflict of Interest Commissoner's office with modern legislation, including own-motion investigations and expanded jurisdiction;
  • Review and amend the FOIPOP overhaul to ensure transparency and accountability for government agencies and personnel;
  • Review the use of NDA's and establish criteria for when NDA's can, and can't be used, ensuring these agreements aren't used to silence victims or covering negligence;

Honest & Ethical Government - A Better Government for All Nova Scotians

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  • Adopt and enshrine housing as a public social good, and it is the foundation of all success;
  • Adopt a definition for affordable housing, allowing for government benchmarks;
  • Implement a robust, scaled project to build non-market homes. This building project would be modelled similarly to non-market housing programs in Finland and Paris. Non-marketing housing is widely seen as the most effective and proven method for maintaining affordability, will keep housing stock around a healthy 4%, and will not remove or displace private market housing or those who own property;
  • Create a Nova Scotia Housing Development Corporation (NSHDC) as a hybrid model of the Vienna and Finland models to manage and oversee the production of Non-Market housing in the province;
  • Aggressively pursue funding programs and beneficial partnerships with the Federal Government to support construction funding;

Housing Affordability - Shifting the Mindset to Housing as a Public Good

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  • Develop a food security strategy that focuses on coordinating and investing in local NS agriculture, distribution networks, retail markets, and community groups and services such as food banks;

  • Create a food security tax credit for middle to low-income households;

  • Establish structured funding and support for NS farmers and farmers' markets;

  • Evaluate rural food distribution networks and assess if regional hubs are required;

  • Introduce supermarket transparency legislation, mandating quarterly reporting of anonymized data breakdowns of retailer costs vs markup costs;

Cost-of-Living & Affordability - Making Nova Scotia Cost Less

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  • Creation of a mental health provincial strategy, designed to provide empathetic support and systems in place;

  • Review the pilot programs for Mobile Mental Health Response Teams and identify strengths and weaknesses to make them more effective and move into rural areas;

  • Fast-track international medical students and foreign-trained health support workers;

  • Integrate regional community-based care hubs, bringing essential primary health services under one roof based on geographic populations;

  • Creation of a Provincial Health Workforce Strategy for resource planning, retention, and forecasting of future needs;

Bold & Impactful Health Care - Less Guarantees, More Action

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  • Transition to a Government focused on trauma-informed decision-making for victims;

  • Create an advisory group of survivors to assist and support the Government in areas of IPV and GBV decision-making;

  • Review if a provincial working group at the Premier level to coordinate justice efforts, including police forces, to address this crisis;

  • Create Nova Scotia’s first provincial strategy focused on anti-trafficking, IPV and GBV. No plan exists; this leads to fragmentation and inefficiencies in key areas;

  • Establish structured long-term core funding indexed to inflation for IPV, GBV, and anti trafficking programs, support, and reintegration methods;

Human & Sex Trafficking & IPV - Tackling the Corridor and the Violence

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  • Create a strategy for Nova Scotia specific to digital modernization, focused on moving Nova Scotia forward and addressing serious digital concerns;

  • Move Nova Scotia towards digital sovereignty, including passing legislation that all data of Nova Scotians must be held and maintained in Nova Scotia, with no data on foreign infrastructure or under foreign law;

  • Work with the AI Minister to address and discuss areas where Nova Scotia can become a leader in AI for Canada;

  • Revise and modernize the provincial curriculum, with teacher input, to reflect the digital world we live in, Canadian studies, and open discussion aspects for high schools;

  • Create a youth committee to discuss and provide input into potential legislation for the government for matters that impact Nova Scotia youth and young adults;

A 21st Century Nova Scotia - Modernizing the Province to the World we Live In

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Ready to Help Drive Change?

Dustin’s vision for Nova Scotia relies on the active participation of dedicated citizens like you. We invite you to read our full policy platform, share these solutions with your neighbours, and join the conversation about our province’s future. Reach out with your questions and help us build a movement defined by dignity and progress together.

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