05:45 2009-03-31
Queens MLA, Vicki Conrad, the NDP's Transportation critic is pleased the Transportation Minister has reconsidered laying off road workers. Conrad says its great news for the workers and their families. She says retaining the workers is a good first step, but Premier Rodney MacDonald still has an obligation to unveil details of his infrastructure spending plan. Conrad says the premier intends to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on highway and roadway work but the Department of Transportation workers, and all Nova Scotians, have been kept in the dark. She says the Premier refuses to call back the legislature, refuses to introduce a timely budget and refuses to give Nova Scotians the details they expect on the infrastructure spending plan. Approximately 200 Department of Transportation employees will avoid being laid off during the transition from winter to summer seasons.
