Canada’s Nurses are standing up for the country’s health care system this federal election, as the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) and the provincial nurses unions it represents will register as third-party advertisers for the first time in the organization’s history.

Today the Liberal Government announced the 2015/16 budget, and in doing so, put the onus on nurses and other public sector workers to help reduce the provincial debt.

The membership of Nova Scotia’s four acute care health unions all voted overwhelmingly to accept the Council of Union’s approach to collective bargaining agreed to by their unions and the province of Nova Scotia.

The Nova Scotia Nurses’ Union (NSNU) which represents 6900 nurses in the province says that mediation, which began on October 17 as a result of Bill 1, The Health Authorities Act, ended on November 17th with the majority of key issues unresolved.

Today the government announced the procurement of a consultant to examine and make recommendations on service delivery in the home care sector, but the Nova Scotia Nurses’ Unions (NSNU) says they are confident that the findings will show that Nova Scotians already receive quality service that’s affordable and irreplaceable.