Nova Scotia Liberal Party Leader Zach Churchill held a news conference Wednesday in Halifax, where he promised to improve rent controls and close loopholes in the province's regulations for fixed-term leases.

The plan also calls for establishing a provincial rent bank that would provide zero-interest loans to renters who can't pay their bills.

Churchill said the bank would be modelled after British Columbia's rent bank, which started as a pilot project in 2019.

Churchill also said if the Liberals …