Keep health care funding stable: New Democrats
Conservative broken promise would wreak havoc on front-line health services
December 19, 2011
As Finance Ministers meet in Victoria to discuss health transfers, New Democrats today slammed the Conservatives for their mixed-messaging on health care funding and urged Stephen Harper to maintain the federal government’s stable, 6 per cent escalator.
“Canadian families need to know their front-line health services will be protected,” said New Democrat leader Nycole Turmel. “It’s up to the federal government to show some leadership and ensure Canadian’s healthcare gets the stable health funding it needs.”
Reports surfaced last week that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty was preparing to slash provincial health transfer increases and was keen to tie future funding to unknown future GDP. In the 2011 election, the Conservative’s only healthcare promise was to maintain the 6 per cent funding escalator.
“Under the out-of-touch Conservative plan, if Canada has a bad year, sick families will be out of luck,” Turmel said. “Canadian families can’t trust Stephen Harper to protect their health care services.”
Turmel urged the government to negotiate in good-faith with the provinces on a stable funding plan to hire more doctors and nurses, make prescription drugs affordable and ensure Canadians get long-term care in their homes.
“Stephen Harper should spend less time playing hard-ball with the provinces and more time protecting the front-line health care that families rely on every day.”
NDP Finance Critic Peter Julian, in Victoria to respond to the Finance Ministers meeting, added that the Conservatives need to stop lecturing provinces and start working with them to deliver on the priorities of Canadians.
“First Stephen Harper says the provinces have no choice but to pay for his expensive and wrong-headed prisons agenda. Then he tells them Ottawa won’t be a full partner on ensuring Canadians can get the front-line health services they rely on. That’s wrong.”
My name is David Murray and I am currently on City Council in the City of Pitt Meadows British Columbia.
I ran Federally for the New Democratic Party in 2011 in Abbotsford and with the great team we had in place had the distinction of being the only riding in Western Canada that doubled our NDP vote!
I am the Editor of the Pitt Meadows Today Community Online Newspaper which together with its sister papers the Abbotsford, Chilliwack and Langley Today are receiving 250,000 hits a month!
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My family goes back to the CCF-NDP party circa October 1935 as my father "Bud" Murray worked on Tommy Douglas's first campaign!
I am a union activist for CUPE and sit as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Fraser Valley District Council and the Secretary-Treasurer of the Fraser Valley Labour Council (CLC)
Reports surfaced last week that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty was preparing to slash provincial health transfer increases and was keen to tie future funding to unknown future GDP. In the 2011 election, the Conservative’s only healthcare promise was to maintain the 6 per cent funding escalator.
“Under the out-of-touch Conservative plan, if Canada has a bad year, sick families will be out of luck,” Turmel said. “Canadian families can’t trust Stephen Harper to protect their health care services.”Turmel urged the government to negotiate in good-faith with the provinces on a stable funding plan to hire more doctors and nurses, make prescription drugs affordable and ensure Canadians get long-term care in their homes.
“Stephen Harper should spend less time playing hard-ball with the provinces and more time protecting the front-line health care that families rely on every day.”
NDP Finance Critic Peter Julian, in Victoria to respond to the Finance Ministers meeting, added that the Conservatives need to stop lecturing provinces and start working with them to deliver on the priorities of Canadians.
“First Stephen Harper says the provinces have no choice but to pay for his expensive and wrong-headed prisons agenda. Then he tells them Ottawa won’t be a full partner on ensuring Canadians can get the front-line health services they rely on. That’s wrong.”
I ran Federally for the New Democratic Party in 2011 in Abbotsford and with the great team we had in place had the distinction of being the only riding in Western Canada that doubled our NDP vote!
I am the Editor of the Pitt Meadows Today Community Online Newspaper which together with its sister papers the Abbotsford, Chilliwack and Langley Today are receiving 250,000 hits a month!
http://www.pittmeadowstoday.ca/
My family goes back to the CCF-NDP party circa October 1935 as my father "Bud" Murray worked on Tommy Douglas's first campaign!
I am a union activist for CUPE and sit as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Fraser Valley District Council and the Secretary-Treasurer of the Fraser Valley Labour Council (CLC)
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