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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
February 22, 2023 09:00AM
  • Feb/22/23 11:20:00 a.m.

Yesterday, we made another investment to ensure that publicly funded health care, a system that in Ontario people believe in and want to be there appropriately in their communities, is going to be for generations to come.

Our government, as the Premier mentioned—since 2018, $14 billion of new investment in health care in Ontario. What has that investment given us? It has given us two new medical schools in the works. It has given us an opportunity to actually ensure that people who are practising medicine in other parts of Canada can do that the next day when they come to Ontario.

We have, through Your Health Act, ensured, for generations to come, that a growing population and an aging population will be protected under a publicly funded health care system.

I am incredibly proud of the work that our stakeholders, our clinicians, our hospitals, our physicians have done—and are supporting Your Health Act today.

We have funded three additional expansions to cataract in Windsor, in Kitchener-Waterloo, in Ottawa. We’ve done that, and those clinically funded programs are already in place and already serving more patients in the province of Ontario.

We’ll continue to make those expansions because I do not believe, at my core, that it is appropriate to have people waiting for medically necessary procedures in their community.

It is unfathomable to me that the member opposite doesn’t understand, by expanding what is already in place in the province of Ontario, with over 800 community clinics—that we do not see an opportunity here to serve the patient better.

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