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Gravelle also blames federal Liberals for dementia strategy failure

It could be an election tactic, but the federal NDP are saying it wasn’t just the Harper Tories who nixed a national strategy on dementia.  Nickel Belt MP Claude Gravelle says the Trudeau Liberals also voted against his Private Members Bill.  Gravelle says the Liberals had a chance to support Canadians on this issue but chose not to.  What the New Democrat finds frustrating is he had a commitment from the Liberal’s health critic that all Liberal MP’s would support the Bill.   Gravelle says instead the Liberals have failed Canadians.

Rocco Frangione
Rocco Frangione
I've been a broadcast journalist for three-plus decades in Northern Ontario. I'm a graduate of Algonquin College's radio and television arts program and prior to that, an honours grad from Carleton University's philosophy program.

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