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House Hansard - 149

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
January 30, 2023 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 149 - Jan/30/23
Mr. Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, NDP)
  • Jan/30/23 2:33:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, in the last election, the Prime Minister criticized the Conservatives for proposing to increase for-profit private health care in our system. Now, Doug Ford is doing the exact same thing and the Prime Minister is calling it innovation. Why this big flip-flop?
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Context: House Hansard - 149 - Jan/30/23
Mr. Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, NDP)
  • Jan/30/23 2:34:25 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the problem is that the Prime Minister says one thing and does another. In the last election, the Prime Minister made a really big deal of calling out the Conservatives for proposing the idea of bringing in more for-profit private health care, but now when Doug Ford is doing exactly that, he is calling it “innovation”. I am not surprised the Conservatives support this approach as they believe in for-profit private health care, but I am surprised at the Prime Minister. Why the flip-flop?
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Context: House Hansard - 149 - Jan/30/23
Mr. Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, NDP)
  • Jan/30/23 3:38:56 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, today I am requesting an emergency debate concerning the state of public health care in Canada. In the coming days, the Prime Minister will be meeting with premiers from provinces across the country to discuss health care and to finalize an agreement for long-term funding of our health care system. However, this comes at a time when a number of Conservative premiers are putting forward plans to privatize our health care system with for-profit private health care investments, which is deeply troubling given that the outcome would be less care, higher costs and a worsening of the current crisis. If we do not make decisions this year, the current crisis will determine not just the following years but the following decade of care that Canadians receive. Given how important it is that we make the right choices now to invest in a public health care system that all Canadians can access and that we take a strong stance against the American-style for-profit private delivery of care, I am requesting an emergency debate on this matter in the House today.
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