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House Hansard - 125

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 4, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 125 - Nov/4/22
Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie (Joliette, BQ)
  • Nov/4/22 11:39:07 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, this week, all six urgent care chiefs of Quebec's hospitals declared the health care system to be at a breaking point. In that context, on Monday, in Vancouver, the Minister of Health will be meeting his counterparts from Quebec and the provinces to discuss health transfers. Yesterday's economic update did not plan for a penny more before 2028. The hospitals have reached a breaking point today; not in 2028 or next spring, but today. Why is the minister still going there empty-handed?
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Context: House Hansard - 125 - Nov/4/22
Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie (Joliette, BQ)
  • Nov/4/22 11:40:23 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, if it is truly very important, the Minister of Finance should be the one to go to Vancouver on Monday to meet with the health ministers. She controls the purse strings. She has already outlined her position in the economic update, however: there will be no health transfer increase in the short term. The health minister does not control the money transferred, he is responsible for the conditions that the federal government wants to attach to that money. Finally, with respect to the ministers' meeting in Vancouver on Monday, is the federal government attending merely to impose conditions?
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Context: House Hansard - 125 - Nov/4/22
Mr. Adam van Koeverden (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health and to the Minister of Sport, Lib.)
  • Nov/4/22 11:40:53 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, that is not true. There are investments in dental care and there are members in the House who voted against them. The Minister of Health will meet with his provincial and territorial counterparts in Vancouver next week to further discuss, among other priorities, how we can continue to work together to solve the health care worker crisis and improve access to family health services across the country.
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Context: House Hansard - 125 - Nov/4/22
Ms. Michelle Ferreri (Peterborough—Kawartha, CPC)
  • Nov/4/22 11:49:37 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, many Canadian children will not make it to their 18th birthday. Canada ranks 35 out of 38 in teen mental health and suicide. Do members know how many times the words “mental health” were mentioned in the federal economic statement? It was three. Do members know what contributes to the worsening of mental health? It is having to choose between heating and eating. That stress is downloaded to our children. Will the Liberals show some leadership and compassion and stop the planned tax hike on gas, groceries and heating?
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Context: House Hansard - 125 - Nov/4/22
Ms. Rachel Bendayan (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance, Lib.)
  • Nov/4/22 11:51:31 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I am very upset about what has just happened in this House. It could only take a Conservative to ask two questions on mental health and then somehow make them about taxes or the price on pollution. Mental health is a serious— Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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