Axing doctor incentive program in Halifax area wasn't political, health minister says

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“I don’t know why they axed it,” NDP Leader Claudia Chender said of the Halifax-area physician incentive program.

“What I can say is we have an incentive program everywhere in this province except for HRM, where 50 per cent of the residents of Nova Scotia live and where this government, that is so focused on immigration and attracting people to this province, is settling people at a rate we haven’t seen in decades,” Chender said.

“I would love for the premier to answer that question, why did he axe it.”

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Claudia Chender MLA