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House Hansard - 147

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 13, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 147 - Dec/13/22
Ms. Heather McPherson
  • Dec/13/22 11:27:50 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, one the biggest questions I have with regard to this is that if members of the Conservative Party are so staunchly against providing reproductive health care to women around the world, one would think they would have the bravery or the moral fortitude to stand and defend that position. If this is something they truly believe, one would expect they would want to have a study on it so they could bring forward their beliefs. Unfortunately, they do not want to even do that. They will not defend their beliefs; they will just filibuster so we cannot do the study.
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Context: House Hansard - 147 - Dec/13/22
Mr. Mario Simard (Jonquière, BQ)
  • Dec/13/22 2:42:33 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, enough with the analysis. What we want is results. However, as long as Ottawa is withholding money, there will be no results. The real reason for the impasse is that Ottawa does not want to pay 35% of health costs. Ottawa wants to shatter the provinces' consensus in order to negotiate individual agreements on the cheap and invest as little as possible. While our hospitals are stacking people on stretchers because of a lack of beds, while children are being sent 500 kilometres away for treatment, does my colleague really believe that this is the time to be concocting ways to invest less in health?
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Context: House Hansard - 147 - Dec/13/22
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • Dec/13/22 2:43:12 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, reinvesting in health is exactly what we have been doing for several years now with COVID-19. An additional $72 billion was invested in the Canada health transfer. In the last few weeks, there has been an additional $2 billion allocated to reduce delays in treatment, surgery and diagnosis and an additional $9 billion for mental health, home care and long-term care. On top of that, we promised there would be more. That is already a lot of money. We need to do things differently because that is what Canadians and Quebeckers need.
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Context: House Hansard - 147 - Dec/13/22
Mr. Luc Thériault (Montcalm, BQ)
  • Dec/13/22 2:43:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, ongoing transfers are what is needed. Everyone knows that. As the Prime Minister digs in his heels and refuses to engage with his counterparts on the subject of health care funding, 784,000 people are on waiting lists to see a medical specialist and 160,000 people are awaiting surgery. Nearly a million Quebeckers need care but cannot get it because there are not enough resources. Can the Prime Minister explain to those one million Quebeckers why just meeting with his counterparts to talk about health transfers is too much to ask of him?
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