{"id":152975,"date":"2017-04-14T16:02:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T20:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irpp-policy-options.local\/authors\/bill-flowers\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:05:41","slug":"bill-flowers","status":"publish","type":"authors","link":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/authors\/bill-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Flowers is part of the Labrador Inuit community. He is retired from the public service and lives in Amherst, N.S. He graduated from Dalhousie Law School. 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