Halifax Examiner - Province House
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“This change may be necessary but it is not sufficient,” said NDP leader Claudia Chender. “People’s bills are still going to skyrocket because of the cost of fuel. We haven’t seen the indexing of the heating assistance rebate programs. We haven’t seen the introduction of a low-income power rate program (as the NDP proposed last spring) which would allow people to afford power. So this may be too little, too late and it’s not the kind of intervention we need to break the cycle.”
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