Houston government reaffirms commitment to free parking at hospitals, but has no timeline

NDP Leader Claudia Chender said those are the kind of details the Tories should have worked out before they made their election promise.

Chender supports removing the fees as a way to address barriers to accessing care. But she said attention needs to be paid to certain sites, such as the IWK Health Centre, Dartmouth General and Victoria General, to ensure free parking does not mean people attending the hospitals wind up competing with the general public to find a space.

She suggested some type of validation system for people attending busier hospitals where parking is already at a premium.

"I'm quite sure that we have the capacity to do that, it's just a matter of implementing it," she said. "And, again, you would think this would be something that was contemplated when they made the promise."

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