Setting aside differences, Liberals and Tories strategized to pass dementia bill

Conservative MP Rob Nicholson was 'unusually gracious' in drafting a bill that 'takes the politics' out, and working with the opposite side: Liberal MP Rob Oliphant.
Liberal MP Rob Oliphant, left, with Debbie Benczkowski, then chief operating officer of the Alzheimer Society of Canada, and Rob Nicholson, last year on the Hill.
Conservative MP Rob Nicholson set aside political differences and crossed the floor to gain support for his private member’s bill to create a national dementia strategy. Mr. Nicholson (Niagara Falls, Ont.) knew how important a framework for dementia was; his father suffered from the disease. “...

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