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Vaughn Palmer: B.C. NDP jumps all over Tory MLA's musing on cuts to health care and education

Opinion: Tony Luck may have been referring to cuts to bureaucracy, not teachers, doctors and nurses, but it's a bit late now for him to clarify

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VICTORIA — B.C. Conservative MLA Tony Luck said before the budget was introduced last week that he’d like to see staff cuts, deficit reduction and — ahem — “education and health care are going to have to take the brunt of this.”

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The New Democrats pounced and pounced again on Luck’s comments as proof that Conservative cuts would devastate health care and education.

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