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OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party was willing to be flexible on the first phase of the Liberal government's dental-care plan, but in future the New Democrats will bend no further.
Singh acknowledged in an interview that the timeline was ambitious, which is why the NDP was amenable to an interim measure."That flexibility allowed for the government to deliver that in a flexible way." Singh said his party agreed to the benefit plan on condition the full program be ready for the next phase of qualifying patients by the end of next year.
The fact that the government is taking extra time to get the program right is good news, said Carlos Quiñonez, vice-dean and director of dentistry at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University. "We want to make sure that quality of life is the top notch: best quality and the best practices," Singh said, recognizing that some services would fall outside of that scope."To me, that's a very important issue because it not only has to be scientifically defensible, it also has to be ethically defensible."
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