NDP MP McPherson, Alberta NDP criticize feds’ slow response to province’s plan to increase private surgeries

Provincial NDP leader Naheed Nenshi has written to the prime minister citing Health Canada's slow reaction to a provincial bill allowing doctors to work in public and private health care systems. NDP MP McPherson says Health Minister Marjorie Michel is ‘not stepping up’ on the issue.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and Health Minister Marjorie Michel. 'If the federal government isn't going to stand up for the law of this land, why do they even exist? What's the point?' asks NDP MP Heather McPherson about the lack of response from Ottawa on Alberta's new health policy and whether it contravenes the Canada Health Act.

As Health Minister Marjorie Michel continues to review Alberta’s plan to increase the availability of privately funded surgeries, elected provincial and federal NDP politicians say Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government is breaking federal law, and that Ottawa must ...

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