从左到右：总理蒂姆·休斯顿（Tim Houston），商业部长苏珊娜·科克姆·格里克（Suzanne Corkum-Greek），公共工程部长金·马斯兰（Kim Masland），新斯科舍省服务部长科尔顿·勒布朗（Colton Leblanc）。照片：詹妮弗·亨德森
The Houston government is consolidating five government agencies down to two after a review designed to improve their effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability.
As of today, the CEOs of Nova Scotia Business Inc, Develop Nova Scotia, and Innovacorp are out of a job. Laurel Broten, Jennifer Angel, and Malcolm Fraser will receive severance worth six to 12 months of their six-figure salaries. Citizens who served as board members on government agencies are also being dismissed and the new agencies will report directly to a cabinet minister.
总理蒂姆·休斯顿（Tim Houston）说：“这些变化是有意义的。”“他们将导致新斯科舍省的加速经济增长，并为新斯科舍省的更有效和负责政府。”
The Progressive Conservative government will pass legislation in the fall to create two new Crown Corporations.
Build Nova Scotia
Build Nova Scotia will replace Nova Scotia Lands — a Crown Corporation supervising the building of the new Halifax Infirmary and all health care infrastructure, as well as the remediation of Boat Harbour. It will also take over the work that has been done by Develop Nova Scotia. Develop Nova Scotia oversees the delivery of high-speed Internet to rural communities as well as the development of waterfronts in Bedford, Lunenburg, and Halifax. Build Nova Scotia will also absorb Harbourside Commercial Park in Sydney.
As Houston did with the Nova Scotia Health Authority, the boards of directors have been dismissed and will be replaced by an executive chair until a new CEO can be hired. (In the case of Nova Scotia Health, Karen Oldfield remains in the top job 11 months later.)
Wayne Crawley, a seasoned entrepreneur who runs a venture capital firm called Venor and formerly held an executive position at Emera, has been chosen by the premier to run Build Nova Scotia. The job pays $1500 a day up to a maximum of $18,000 a month.
Invest Nova Scotia
The second newly-minted crown Corporation will be called Invest Nova Scotia. It combines the work formerly done by Nova Scotia Business Inc and Innovacorp to provide loans and services to help homegrown businesses start up or expand, as well as attract new companies to the province.
As with the other boards, the boards of Nova Scotia Business, Inc and Innovacorp have been dismissed and will be replaced by an executive chair until a CEO for the new Invest Nova Scotia is recruited. Houston picked Tom Hickey, who started an offshore safety company that morphed into a traffic and construction business called Front-Line Safety, to run Invest Nova Scotia at the same pay as Crawley.
休斯顿告诉记者，他是企业家的“粉丝”，并认为他们是朋友。
Some journalists questioned whether dismissing the boards of directors of the five crown corporations agencies would eliminate the “arms length relationship” they have traditionally had to operate independently from political control. Houston clearly thinks that independence is overrated.
休斯顿说：“新首席执行官将对部长负责。”“We have a situation in the province right now where there’s really no accountability except to a board that’s not elected.我们正在做的是在系统中建立问责制。”
反对派批评家对变化做出反应
“It was not helpful to hear the premier say he was appointing his ‘friends’ as the heads of the two new crown corporations that will come out of the five that will be dissolved,” said NDP leader Claudia Chender. “Ultimately, what we have been saying and will continue to say is there are matters of overriding public interest. Those matters are the crisis the health care system is facing and people’s inability to pay their bills and get by with the inflationary environment we are in. Those are the issues people care about — not this.”
自由经济发展评论家弗雷德·蒂利（Fred Tilley）说：“这是我们看到的往绩或模式。”“如果您查看卫生管理局，请从该机构的掌舵中删除一名功能强大的医生，并取代党派非健康专业人员。总理提到说医疗保健系统处于“显着”位置，但我觉得这是非常明显的worse。So these changes are concerning.”
医院
在建造新斯科舍省时，休斯顿已经利用了前护理人员和新斯科舍省大臣科尔顿·勒布朗（Colton Leblanc），负责该省的新医院的发展，这是加拿大一些政府资本项目中最大的一些政府资本项目。公共工程部长金·马斯兰（Kim Masland）监督新斯科舍省其余部分的投资组合，年度预算为18,181,000美元。
今天的restructuring affects total budgets worth $100 million a year. Houston insists while cost-cutting was not the focus of the review, he expects changes to streamline the delivery of services and reduce duplication and overlap will result in eventual savings to taxpayers.
休斯顿直接被审查员问他是否可以保证不会通过Re-Org丢失公务员的工作。听起来好像裁员可能会在今年晚些时候到来。
对政府官方公司和机构的审查删除了485个“已停产”实体。新斯科舍省酒类公司不会进行任何更改，而新斯科舍省公用事业和审查委员会等准司法机构并不是该练习的一部分。
Another 165 boards or agencies will be reviewed this fall.
新斯科舍省游戏公司和市政金融公司的员工将集成到财政部，这些机构将被解散。
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Although the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia was part of the review of the crown corporations and agencies, the government still has some big decisions to make about the governance structure and whether it will proceed with a new $130-million-plus building on the waterfront.
The previous CEO of the art gallery has left and the current board of governors does not have a quorum that enables it to make decisions. The government must decide whether to appoint more board members or change the governance structure as it has done with other agencies.
Houston indicated changes are coming and there will be some announcements in the future. He didn’t rule out the possibility the proposed new gallery could be scaled back or cancelled to save money that could be applied to the escalating cost of building a larger hospital to replace the moldering VG.
“I want to thank the outgoing board members and each of the CEOs for their service to Nova Scotia,” said Houston. “ I know with change comes uncertainty but the message to our partners and to the business community is that Nova Scotia is open for business and we will do whatever is necessary to make it easier than ever to grow here in Nova Scotia.”
This article has been updated with responses from the opposition critics.
The Examiner seems to be alone in noting “The review of government crown corporations and agencies removed 485 “defunct” entities.” Is there a source for this piece of information? Has the actual review been released or is the press release all of the information that was released today.
The source is Jennifer Henderson, the reporter who was in the room for the announcement.
The source is Premier Houston who made the comment at the news briefing. The “defunct” or dormant entities would be agencies, boards, and commissions. We weren’t supplied with examples but I could request a list. Another 165 of these entities will be reviewed starting this fall. Examples MIGHT include a harness racing commission or Arts organization or mink-farming Board that once existed but no longer does. Hangovers from the past that are no longer active.
Wayne Crawley, as in former COO of Unique Solutions Designs, the body scanning company, that Wayne Crawley????? If it is the same person you need to update this story to show what happened to the tax payers dollars invested there.
Hi Joanne, yes, Crawley was brought in as COO of Unique Solutions just as the company was in its death throes. My read on this was it was in a spate of desperation, trying to find some value in the company, and they brought in Crawley, who had lots of experience in the investment world. It’s true that anyone who touched that company is soiled by the association, but I really don’t think its failure can be assigned to Crawley — at that point, no one could save the company. At least, there are bigger fish to fry — Peter MacNeil, for example, and the rest of the crew at NSBI. Just my read! feel free to disagree, and of course the rest of Crawley’s career deserves scrutiny, which we’re attempting to provide.
我讨厌“ [X管辖权]为商业开放”的口号。陈词滥调，过度使用，当然也表明，使其成为经济的看法和成功是什么样子
我们终于通过开发ns来解决残疾人的可访问性。认为蒂姆·休斯顿（Tim Houston）和他的亲戚会听取我们残疾人中那些人所说的话吗？高度怀疑。看看他的朋友盔甲团体和皇后区的品牌……。这个政府令人发疯。小蒂米（Timmy）造成薪水损失。