Longstanding Policy: Minority Government

minority government: John Hamm was premier of a minority government in 2006, and Dexter had consistently challenged that government on a longstanding policy that required families to surrender assets to pay for long-term care when a relative entered a nursing home, according to The Chronicle Herald. The new policy was widely heralded as a victory for middle-class families and created many converts to the Dexter-NDP side of the voting ledger. In 2009, the party won a historic victory to government, promising additional investment in new beds and It was Darrell Dexters largest political victory as Opposition leader and it helped to pave the road to the premiers chair. Those on social assistance received fully subsidized nursing home care; some wondered why they d spent all those years saving for retirement, only to have the government drain those assets to pay for a nursing home bed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.