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VICTORIA — Finance Minister Brenda Bailey called a halt this week on construction of seven long-term care homes, saying the estimated price tags were prohibitively expensive.

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“We have seen such a ballooning of cost in long-term care, it’s turning my hair grey,” Bailey told the CBC’s Stephen Quinn.

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“When I first started in politics six years ago, these projects were coming in priced at about $800,000 a bed for us to build long-term care facilities. The last........

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