发布的省级资本预算：医疗保健的大笔资金，没有住房

An architectural rendering of what the newly re-imagined QEII could look like.

新斯科舍省省已发布计划，将大笔资金花在包括医院，道路和学校在内的大型项目上。2022/23的资本计划为16亿美元，比当年的12亿美元预算大三分之一。今天发布的资本预算是该省历史上最大的。

Capital budgets cover construction and very large procurement projects. Other government expenditures are covered by the operating budget, which will be tabled March 29.

True to Premier Tim Houston’s campaign promise to focus on health care, a record $619 million is budgeted for hospital projects. (Just $309 million was allocated for hospitals in the 21/22 budget). That covers:
• $464.6 million for the QEII rebuild and the Cape Breton Regional Municipality Health Care redevelopment projects
• $122.6 million for construction, repair and upgrades of other hospitals and medical facilities
•3200万美元用于更换医疗设备

在公路项目上的支出总计为5.078亿美元，分配给：
• 101 — twinning near Falmouth
• 102 — Aerotech Connector
• 103 — twinning near Ingramport
• 103 — Bridgewater interchange
• 107 — Burnside to Bedford
•104 - 从萨瑟兰河到安提戈尼什的孪生

IT spending is budgeted at $18.8 million. There’s no money in the capital budget to develop a single electronic health record — the so-called “One Person One Record” (OPOR) system continues to be elusive. Money is targeted under the IT budget for “inventory management.”

学校项目的资本预算（一些新的Renos）已减少了2400万美元至1.753亿美元，因为大多数P3学校回购都已经完成。正在进行的学校项目包括：
•贝德福德高
•贝德福德沟渠
• Breton Education Centre
•克莱尔地区小学
•Clayton Park-Fairview
• Ecole Halifax Peninsula
• Ecole Wedgeport
• Glace Bay Elementary
•JL Ilsley
• Springhill Elementary
• St. Joseph-McKay Elementary
• Ecole Acadienne de Pomquet
• Parkview Amphitheatre

In response to the capital plan, Dartmouth North MLA Susan Leblanc said she is “disappointed we aren’t hearing about spending public money on public housing and on long-tern care in the capital plan.”

Leblanc said she suspects Nova Scotia isn’t going to see any public housing built and if there are any new long-term care homes built, it will be by private operators. Leblanc says publicly operated, nonprofit homes are what Nova Scotia needs.

The entire Capital Plan can be found这里。