NDP Leader David Eby is accusing B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad of planning an 'American-style' user-pays health care system for British Columbia as the provincial election campaign enters its latest stages.
NDP Leader David Eby is accusing B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad of planning an"American-style" user-pays health care system for British Columbia as the provincial election campaign enters its latest stages.
Rustad released his party's platform on Tuesday, which makes no mention of a user-pays health care model and instead promises a single-payer system delivering care through public and non-governmental facilities. The election office says 778,000 people had already voted ahead of today's final day of advance voting.
Eby will also be travelling the island for campaign events in Ladysmith, Duncan and Victoria, while Rustad will be spending much of the day in Nanaimo where he also has an evening campaign rally at a hotel. Rustad said his platform would get the provincial economy growing with strategic new spending, the reallocation of wasteful NDP funding to priority areas, a core review and audit of NDP spending, including a revision of current and planned government capital projects.The NDP said Rustad's costings, released four days before election day, meant he would have to"cut supports for people" and he was"making it up as he goes along.
The BC Teachers’ Federation and the Canadian Union of Public Employees British Columbia released a joint letter to members on Wednesday, encouraging them to vote NDP.
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