Nova Scotia’s Finance Minister Maureen MacDonald says the plan will provide direct employment equal to 3,700 full time jobs in communities across the province, along with spin-off employment for more than 2-thousand people.

She says the plan will be subject to the approval to the legislature, as part of the budget delivered in Spring 2013.

“In the meantime, work will get underway as soon as possible to ensure tenders are issued and to ensure prices for goods and services are as good as they can be,” says MacDonald.

This is the third straight year the capital plan has been released before the spring budget.

MacDonald says she believes a capital plan focused on job creation and growing the economy is what people in Nova Scotia are looking for.

Almost half of the capital plan consists of investing in highways and infrastructures.

She says the province is getting ready to capitalize on some of the biggest economic opportunities ever seen.