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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
February 22, 2023 09:00AM
  • Feb/22/23 11:00:00 a.m.

Thank you for the question from the Leader of the Opposition.

I’ll tell you, when we took office in 2018, the health care system was an absolute disaster. There was hallway health care. It was just a total, total mess. Since 2018, we’ve hired 60,000—I repeat, 60,000—new nurses, 8,000 new doctors. We’ve put a medical school together that’s going to graduate more doctors. Just last year alone, Mr. Speaker, we hired over 12,000 nurses that came on board. We’ve spent $14 billion more—a record in Canada when it came to health care. We’re building 50 new sites across every single region, community and city, spending over $40 billion making sure they have the infrastructure they need.

I’ll finish on question number 2, there. Thank you.

Just think: You have an elderly mother or an elderly father that’s been in pain for a year because they can’t get a hip replacement. They’re going to be able to get that hip replacement and change their lives every single day.

When it comes to the nurses, there’s 30,000 nurses studying in colleges and universities that are going to join the Ontario health care team.

We will continue building health care to make sure we have the best health care system in the entire world, Mr. Speaker.

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  • Feb/22/23 5:20:00 p.m.
  • Re: Bill 60 

I want to speak of what people expect from their government: that their government should be people-oriented and, at the same, results-oriented. We have shown that in the pandemic that protecting the health and safety of Ontarians was the topmost priority for our government and also, at the same time, results-oriented. We’re not building only hospitals and medical schools; we’re making unprecedented investments in health care. By the way, the first medical school we’re getting in over 100 years, the opposition voted against that medical school.

They can always stand in the House and give lectures on the quality of health care services, but when it comes to action, they will vote against those bills. Will the member opposite and their partners do the right thing and support this bill?

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