Provincial shifts towards health care privatization ‘100 per cent the wrong way to go,’ says NDP MP Davies

Along with concern over Ontario’s announced plan to fund private clinics, Green MP Mike Morrice wants MPs to review loopholes in the current Canada Health Act that enable companies to charge for health services.

Rather than freeing up space in hospital surgeries and emergency rooms, NDP MP Don Davies, his party's health critic, argues that directing public funds toward private, for-profit health-care providers will only further drain resources and increase wait times. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

January 25, 2023

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called Ontario Premier Doug Ford's plan to introduce for-profit health-care services in the province

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