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'I told you so': Dr. Perry Kendall warned in 2017 the NDP's Addictions Ministry would fail

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David Eby says the government's abandonment of a stand-alone Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions is not a public admission of failure.

The New Democrats were warned about those difficulties from the outset.

Eby insists the government is merely acting “to ensure that we’re able to deliver in the toxic drug crisis,” by putting mental health and addictions back in the Ministry of Health .

Amna Shah, newly elected NDP MLA for Surrey City Centre , will be paid an additional $18,000 as parliamentary secretary.

Shah is paid more than $1,000 a year than the NDP spent squandering on mental health and addictions.

Shah was elected to be the first female female MLA to be paid $ 10,000 more than the other female MP.

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