Local federal NDP candidates say if elected, leader Jagmeet Singh would “end the legacy of cuts to our public health care system started by the Conservatives and continued by Justin Trudeau.”
Only the NDP will invest in front-line health care in Northern Ontario, said NDP candidates Nadia Verrelli (Sudbury) and Andréane Chénier (Nickel Belt), in a news release.
“Years of consecutive Conservative and Liberal cuts have left northern health care stretched thin,” said Verrelli. “Jagmeet Singh's plan to stop these devastating cuts and invest in hiring more nurses and front-line health care workers is what northern families need now.”
Singh was in Alberta on Aug. 19 where, joined by nurses and health-care workers, he announced that an NDP government would create a $250-million Critical Shortages Fund to address the shortage of nurses and health care workers across Canada and ensure that provinces also commit funding specifically for health care workers.
The NDP said the federal fund would help train and hire 2,000 nurses.
Singh also vowed to hire more nurses and to stop premiers from “attacking Canadian health care.”
Good news, said Nickel Belt candidate Chénier.
“In Ontario, northern health care has been cut from all sides. Doug Ford continued 15 years of Liberal cuts to our public health care system, he made deep cuts to long-term care and he wants to cut our public health units that have been there for us during this pandemic,” said Chénier.
“Justin Trudeau never reversed Conservative cuts and during this COVID crisis our hospitals, nurses and frontline health workers have been exhausted. This election we can reverse those cuts, strengthen our health care system with more nurses and front-line health workers for northerners and our families.”
