Progressive Conservative Leader Jamie Baillie says his party’s job creation strategy will create 20,000 new jobs in Nova Scotia over the next four years.

Baillie announced the Tory’s plan Monday morning while on the campaign trail in Hammonds Plains.

Baillie used the opportunity to criticize the performance of the NDP over the last four years. He said the number of fulltime jobs in Nova Scotia has decreased by 2,700 since the NDP formed the government four years ago.

“Since the NDP was elected, jobs disappeared and people have given up hope of building a good life in Nova Scotia,” Baillie said in a release.

Baillie also said the high cost of NDP policies have driven over 7,500 Nova Scotians to other provinces looking for work.

The Tory plan includes three key elements Baillie says will save businesses money:

cancelling the Nova Scotia small business tax

cutting the HST

freezing power rates for five years

The Progressive Conservatives estimate those changes will allow small businesses to save enough that they will be able to hire and create 20,000 jobs in four years.