I thank the member for the question—but it’s very interesting about the language that’s used. In opposing this bill, as it seems the opposition intends to do, which I am saddened to hear, the language used is inappropriate.

What is happening, as I indicated, is close to $80 billion this year alone, record investments in public health care—health care that is accessed by our fellow citizens utilizing their OHIP card, not their credit card. And to protect Ontarians from extra billing, we’re expanding oversight and patient protections when it comes to Your Health. That is the key—publicly funded health care and guards against extra billing.

When it comes to Your Health, under Bill 60, we know that the status quo is no longer acceptable. We must build on the positive aspects of the system but go in a direction of innovation for other aspects. That is why we are taking this bold action to eliminate surgical backlogs and reduce wait times for publicly funded surgeries and procedures. The three-step plan that better integrates and uses community surgical and diagnostic centres and their state-of-the-art facilities to speed up how quickly people are able to get surgeries, using their health care card, will add 14,000 more OHIP-insured surgeries—cataract surgeries, in particular—each year and expand access to diagnostic imaging tests.

Yes, we both share Oshawa; north Oshawa is part of my riding of Durham—proudly representing that part of Durham and all of the Durham riding.

I don’t know who the member for Oshawa has been speaking to, because in my meetings in the community—most recently, earlier this week at Lakeridge Health Oshawa—we were applauded for the plan with Queen’s University to add many new medical seats. We have Queen’s University medical faculty students working right at Lakeridge Health. That’s expanding the number of doctors. They will stay in the community. That’s getting it done, in a very, very important way.

We’ve made the investment in Oak Ridges Hospice for end-of-life care, adding two new beds, and that has made a remarkable difference.

I’ve been hearing nothing but thanks and applause for our government’s plan—not just in a general way, with the nearly $80 billion in new investment this year alone, but the effect on the ground in Durham riding, including Oshawa. We’re being applauded for it. That’s what I’m hearing.

Then, beginning in 2018, and now again in our 2022 new mandate, record investments—and not just talking about it, but getting it done and actually seeing the results, with more nurses, with more PSWs, more home care, more doctors, and a bright future, to save and expand our publicly funded health care system. Our citizens are seeing it right in our community of Durham, and that’s the difference compared to what we saw before 2018.

We’re now increasing, like we’ve not seen in decades, the number of medical places across the province—including our plan at Lakeridge Health with Queen’s University, which I was proud to be part of the other day. with Minister Jones, Minister Bethlenfalvy and Minister Dunlop. We were there with Dr. Jane Philpott, a former Liberal member of Parliament, who proudly stood with us as we made this announcement for more family doctors in Durham.