DARTMOUTH – A longtime business and community leader in downtown Dartmouth is running for the Nova Scotia PC Party in the next provincial general election.
Bea MacGregor was recently nominated as the PC candidate in Dartmouth South. She says Dartmouth South needs an MLA who is focused on delivering relief to taxpayers, unlike current MLA Claudia Chender.
“One of the reasons I am running is to give the people of Dartmouth South a tax break. As their MLA, I will support Premier Tim Houston’s plan to lower the harmonized sales tax,” said MacGregor. “Sadly, the NDP’s Claudia Chender is opposed to tax relief for Dartmouth South. That’s the choice for Dartmouth South – lower taxes with Team Tim Houston or higher taxes with Claudia Chender’s NDP.”
A longtime resident of Dartmouth, MacGregor earned a Bachelor of Design and Environment Planning from Dalhousie University and NSCAD. She served as executive director of the Downtown Dartmouth Development Corporation from 1989 to 1999. She then became the first executive director of Alderney Landing, the cultural and business hub of Dartmouth.
MacGregor currently works as CEO of Alderney Landing, which now hosts 700 events, attracting 400,000 people annually, with a direct and indirect impact economic impact of $75 million annually for the Dartmouth community.
Among MacGregor’s other accomplishments over the last three decades:
- Established the first commercial recycling program in Canada in downtown Dartmouth;
- Co-operated with leaders, businesses and residents to create the first downtown business commission;
- Developed a downtown municipal plan and a waterfront plan; and
- Worked on the committee to build Alderney Landing.
“There are some politicians who do nothing but talk, complain and be negative. And then there’s people like Bea MacGregor, a leader with 35 years of experience in getting things done,” said Houston. “As we continue to fix what previous Liberal and NDP governments broke, I need MLAs like Bea MacGregor as part of my team in government to deliver results for the people of Dartmouth South.”
Premier Tim Houston’s PC Team has delivered record investments in healthcare, housing and infrastructure. The Houston PCs are also providing tax relief, while at the same time fighting against the Liberal-NDP carbon tax.