Queue jumping inquiry given extension

Posted Mar 7, 2013 6:35 am.

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The province is extending the queue jumping inquiry, after all.

Despite first denying Commissioner John Vertes request for more time to probe Alberta’s healthcare system, the Redford government has set a new August 31st deadline.

Wildrose health critic Heather Forsyth tells The Calgary Sun, they didn’t really have a choice.

She says it’s been stupidity on stupidity, and the permission was never really the province’s to give, anyway.

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