New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs. During a campaign stop in Woodstock on Thursday, Higgs said if he’s re-elected his government would maintain the $2.9-billion already budgeted for health care this year.New Brunswick Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers says the Tory government of Blaine Higgs has done nothing to address the affordable housing crisis in the province.
“Recently, the Trudeau government offered up to $49-million in order to accelerate affordable housing in our province,” Vickers told reporters. “The Blaine Higgs government is the only provincial government to turn down such an offer.”Vickers also promised to make the Rising Tide community project in Moncton a reality, which is an initiative by the non-profit group to find 125 people affordable housing over three years.
“We moved 182 senior patients out of hospital beds and into homes and residential facilities in a matter of days where they could get better care that was much more appropriate for their needs,” Higgs said, describing his government’s performance during the pandemic.Higgs refuted claims by the Liberals that if elected, he will revisit an aborted plan to close emergency rooms in rural hospitals. But he said a discussion is needed on how to meet the province’s health care challenges.
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