QUEEN’S PARK – After four years of frozen hospital budgets and a $54-million cut to health care in last year’s Budget, the Liberal Government’s Budget 2016 included only negligible investments in frontline health care while the province’s most vulnerable continue to suffer. “Despite the fact the budget was released at the end of February, […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – After spending the weekend in Ottawa where he toured the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, Leader of the Official Opposition Patrick Brown used this morning’s Question Period to highlight the Wynne Liberal Government’s cuts to physician services in Ottawa. “I heard story after story about the impact of this government’s cuts to […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – This morning during Question Period, the Official Opposition pressed the Minister of Northern Development and Mines to take real action towards developing the Ring of Fire. “It will take more than continued talk by this government to develop the Ring of Fire,” stated Norm Miller, PC Critic for Northern Development and […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – This morning Ontario PC Health Critic Jeff Yurek (MPP Elgin-Middlesex-London) questioned the Liberal government on the impact of rationing health care on mental health patients. “Minister, your government’s rationing of healthcare has created a crisis in Ontario. Last week in London, 22 mental health patients were left waiting for beds. They were […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario PC Finance Critic Vic Fedeli is demanding answers from the Wynne Liberals after he exposed an LCBO document detailing plans to sell 250 store locations in the Legislature today. The document dated February 24 – one day before the Ontario budget was released — outlines a Request for Proposals (RFP) issued […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – After touring the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Center (ROMHC) this past weekend, Leader of the Official Opposition Patrick Brown used Question Period to ask the Acting Premier and her Liberal Government to make mental health care a priority. “The truth is that mental health care facilities in Ontario need this government’s help. […]
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OTTAWA – Today, the Ontario PC Party kicked off its 2016 General Meeting (GM) in Ottawa, with events occurring over the course of the three-day convention. “I believe I speak for the entire Ontario PC Caucus when I say how we are excited to be starting our convention weekend today,” said Leader Patrick Brown. “Over […]
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OTTAWA – Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown joined MPP Lisa MacLeod and members of the Ontario PC Caucus to tour The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre (The Royal). The state of the art facility is one of Canada’s 24 research hospitals and provides training to mental health professionals, from nurses to psychologists, on the increasingly […]
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Liberal NO vote means struggle for support will continue QUEEN’S PARK – “A missed opportunity.” Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Michael Harris expressed his utter disappointment moments after Wynne Liberal members chose to vote against his Private Members Motion call for an all-party Select Committee into Rare Disease Treatment in Ontario. “After a year of hearing Rare Disease […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – Today, Bill Walker, the MPP for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound and the PC Critic for Long-Term Care, slammed the Liberal government’s cut to the Assistive Devices program that has resulted in an inexcusable backlog and wait times for assessment and repair services. “Does the government care enough about what happens to Ontario’s vulnerable people […]
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