Alberta Premier Smith ‘trying to seek conflict’ rather than focusing on dental patients: Holland

In response to Alberta’s recent intentions to opt out of the federal dental care plan, Minister of Health Mark Holland said in Winnipeg, Man., on Thursday that Alberta would be able to administer the dental care program provincially as long as it followed baseline expectations of the federal program. “But it seems the way Premier Smith put it, it was more about trying to seek conflict with us to create some kind of political thing, than it was about patients,” Holland added.

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