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House Hansard - 10

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 3, 2021 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 10 - Dec/3/21
Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)
  • Dec/3/21 11:28:29 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, health experts have told us that if countries like Canada do not work urgently to get vaccines to the world's most vulnerable populations, dangerous variants like omicron will continue to develop. The global impacts will be dire. More people will die and the COVID-19 nightmare will continue. Canadians want to get back to normal, but that will not happen unless everyone everywhere has access to the vaccine. The Liberal government is moving way too slowly. Will the government scale up production, waive patent restrictions and make sure vaccines—
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Context: House Hansard - 10 - Dec/3/21
Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)
  • Dec/3/21 1:07:03 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-3 
Madam Speaker, my colleague's speech was such an honour to hear, but also it is such an honour for me to get to work with this member, who has worked so hard for working people across this country. He spoke about how the New Democrats have said 22 times in the House that we need 10 sick days for people. Can I ask the member why he thinks it has taken the Liberals so long to come through with that legislation?
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Context: House Hansard - 10 - Dec/3/21
Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)
  • Dec/3/21 2:07:15 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-3 
Madam Speaker, I would like to congratulate the new member for winning his seat in the last election. I want to follow up on one of the questions that was asked by my colleague from Thunder Bay—Rainy River on the availability of health care workers. He spoke about his daughter, who is a paramedic, and I know that in Alberta there is a real shortage of paramedics. I have spoken to paramedics on their doorsteps, and the sadness, anger and exhaustion they expressed to me is really quite heartbreaking. We are hearing that from paramedics, from doctors, from nurses, from all health care workers. I wonder if the member could speak a bit about the plan to get more health care providers in our system and to make sure that our health care system is more robust, with a better balance between federal transfers and provincial transfers, so that we have the publicly delivered, universally accessible health care that all Canadians need.
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