Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says protecting Canada's public health system is a top priority in the coming year.
Posted: Feb. 1, 2023 3:52PMHot off a week-long Vancouver Island tour on the state of health care, federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says protecting Canada’s public health system is a top priority in the coming year.
“The public health-care system Canadians take pride in is at a watershed moment,” he said, pointing to Ontario and Alberta, which have announced they’ll shift some surgeries to for-profit clinics to ease the burden on public hospitals. People are seeing long waits in emergency rooms or they can’t find doctors, and emergency rooms are being shut down because there’s not enough staff, Singh added.
The B.C. government announced $30 million in funding for immediate measures to stabilize health care in the region Friday, but the cash infusion isn’t expected to immediately solve the staffing crisis. A streamlined national process applied across all provinces would speed up the integration of internationally trained professionals across the country, he said.
Internationally trained professionals aside, the federal government needs to push for a national licensing system for Canadian professionals as well.
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