Opinion: Stephen McNeil fails health care checkup

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CUPE NS President Nan McFagden published an op-ed in the Halifax Chronicle Herald online today, conducting a health care check up of Premier McNeil’s election promises on improvements to health care. Almost eight years later, promises he made have not been realized.

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