NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is continuing with his a multi-billion-dollar health spending spree. Speaking in Lethbridge, Alberta this morning, Mulcair promised to establish a 100-million dollar mental health innovation fund for children and youth. (Mulcair has been rolling out big-ticket spending promises this week on health. They include a 40-million-dollar commitment for a national strategy on Alzheimer's disease and dementia, 500-million to build medical clinics and hire more health care professionals, and 1.8-billion to expand home care and palliative services.)

Date: 2015-09-15
Placeline: LETHBRIDGE, Alberta.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 19 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << helping just one child with a mental illness can only improve quality of life for that child but also provide a lifetime of Health Care savings that can be directed to helping others the economic cost of mental illness is at least 50 billion dollars annually >>

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