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Vaughn Palmer: As election call was imminent, NDP dropped any pretence of fiscal prudence

Opinion: Party reverses course after stalling hospital expansion, but won't say if cost overruns were reined in

VICTORIA — The New Democrats have abandoned any commitment to fiscal discipline with the announcement on the eve of the election call that they were reactivating the expansion of Burnaby Hospital.

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The Phase 2 expansion was put on hold earlier this year as part of a supposedly “tough” fiscal plan to rein in some capital projects as wildly overbudget.

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