Doug for Kings North

I am offering because I can deliver the new thinking and the new solutions that we need to make life better now and in the future – for us and for our children in Kings North and in Nova Scotia.

• Climate change solutions that create jobs

• Economic solutions that create prosperity while at the same time restoring our environment and ending environmental racism

• Health care solutions that ensure people get the care they need when they need it

• Social justice solutions that ensure that residents of long term care facilities can live with the dignity they deserve

• Democracy that works for everyone, every day.

These things will only happen with a new politics.
I want to be the face of that politics for Kings North.

Democracy is a fragile thing. You may feel your single vote among thousands does not count for much – but it is yours, and within it lie the rights and freedoms at the heart of our society. Take pride in your vote.

Some folks like to talk about “strategic voting” and worry about whether their vote will be “wasted” if they vote in a particular way. But here’s the thing:

The other parties have been around for decades and have taken turns governing the province. The results include:

• Communities with poverty rates among the highest in Canada;

• A lack – even absence – of investment in the internet and green infrastructure that our future prosperity will depend on;

• The squandering of our resources at the altar of corporate interests.

We cannot solve problems with the same thinking that created them. The one thing we can all be certain of is if the other guys continue to govern we will have more of the same.

Stupidity, it has been said, is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different outcome. So what does it mean if you want a better Nova Scotia, but you vote for the same-old-same old?