NDP doubles down on promise to provide health-care coverage to international students
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Manitoba’s advanced education minister reaffirmed the NDP’s pledge to reinstate free health care for international students Monday.
Asked about whether the government will follow through on a 2023 campaign pledge during its first term, Advanced Education Minister Renée Cable said during question period that “the short answer is yes.”
“A mandate is four years. We are working diligently on this… It would’ve been a lot easier if there weren’t interruptions from the federal Liberals,” Cable told the chamber in response to a question from Liberal MLA Cindy Lamoureux.
The Tories stopped providing foreign students with health-care coverage in 2018.
Since the NDP campaigned on bringing it back, Ottawa has issued international student caps and new processes to accept students from overseas.