Globe and Mail: Election Result and Healthcare

Our provincial coordinator spoke with the Globe and Mail about the Nova Scotia election and the central role healthcare played.

But he’s concerned that the Tories plan to privatize more aspects of the provincial health care network, including turning to corporations to operate new, for-profit long-term care facilities and telehealth services. This election also showed that voters have little appetite for austerity measures as the country emerges from the pandemic, Mr. Parsons said.

“The political winds have shifted, and the Liberals totally missed that. They were still speaking in terms of austerity and balanced budgets, things that no one believes in any more,” he said.

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