Here’s what the Liberals promised for health care. But can they deliver? [Video]

Until U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and threats to Canadian sovereignty came along, many thought health care would be a key issue in the federal election.

Instead, it came across as an after-thought to more immediate economic concerns that often hijacked campaign headlines.

“I can’t recall an election in recent decades where less attention was given to health care,” said Nelson Wiseman, a professor emeritus in political science at the University of Toronto.

Wiseman pegs the oversight to tense relations with the United States and the Trump administration, which he says “eclipsed virtually all other issues except affordability.”

Health issues are certainly no less pressing and the Liberals included several health-care pledges in their platform.

Now that the party has been handed another mandate, here’s what doctors, nurses and mental health experts say they’re happy to see, and what is missing.

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The Liberal platform promised to “add thousands of new …