SoVote

Context: House Hansard - 162 - Feb/16/23

Feb/16/23 11:41:19 a.m.
Watch

Madam Speaker, there are two things I need to point out. I have spoken at length about the $4.5-billion Canada mental health transfer, which has not happened. The other thing we need to talk about is the Liberal Prime Minister, who talks about privatizing Canadian health care and claims it is innovation. Everybody has heard that in the media. I think it is a travesty. There are two points, as I said. We have a Liberal Prime Minister who is talking about private care as innovative, and we have a Liberal Prime Minister who refuses to transfer $4.5 billion to those who need it the most with mental health issues.

113 words

Context: House Hansard - 162 - Feb/16/23

Mr. Adam van Koeverden (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health and to the Minister of Sport, Lib.)

Feb/16/23 11:42:03 a.m.
Watch

Madam Speaker, the member opposite asked a lot of questions, and this has become a really disappointing trend from the Conservatives. It is a lot of slogans and no solutions or proposals for a better system. There are no recommendations, just a lot of slogans with no substance at all. Canadians know they cannot trust the Conservatives on health care. Their hidden agenda is not hidden at all. There are examples across this country of Conservatives continually privatizing health care and ensuring that private clinics can deliver care to Canadians. That is why our government has had to rescind money. There are actually consequences for Conservative governments that have been doing that, in particular those in New Brunswick and Alberta. Over $100 million has had to be pulled back because of contraventions to the Canada Health Act. My question to the member is very clear: How can Canadians trust the Conservatives on something so precious and important as health care?

160 words

Context: House Hansard - 162 - Feb/16/23

Mr. Mark Gerretsen (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons (Senate), Lib.)

Feb/16/23 3:52:03 p.m.
Watch

Madam Speaker, the reality of the situation is that the NDP have not used the Prime Minister's words in a true context in this motion. I do not think anybody in this House would disagree with the idea that we should be innovative when it comes to our health care system. It is the NDP who have taken the leap to assume that the word “innovative” meant privatizing health care. According to the member's speech, the Prime Minister said it was a good thing to do. The Prime Minister never said this in terms of privatizing health care and going down the road that has been suggested by the provincial government in Ontario. The member said that other members should vote for this. How can he expect us to vote for something when he has clearly taken the words of the Prime Minister out of context in here?

152 words

Context: House Hansard - 162 - Feb/16/23

Ms. Jenny Kwan

Feb/16/23 4:10:30 p.m.
Watch

Madam Speaker, let us look at the whole picture. The member should know what was happening during that period with the federal government. It was a Conservative government. With the Liberals and the Conservatives, it is the same old story; they are about the same. They starve provinces of federal health care transfer dollars, so people are forced to try to make ends meet. What we need to do, of course, is properly fund provinces and territories in the delivery of health care. We also need to close all the loopholes for premiers who want to go down the track of privatizing health care. By the way, it was the B.C. NDP government that stopped private clinics, and the people who wanted to go down the private health care track, in the courts.

134 words