ICYMI: Ivison: Bushwhacked in B.C. — Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos was not happy
“We’re talking about the health of millions of Canadians who are fearing if they fall ill, they are not going to access, for instance, a family doctor,” Duclos says in this interview with National Post’s John Ivison. “If they went to an emergency department, that it would take hours, sometimes days, to get the care they would need.”Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
“I’m optimistic because at every level — health ministers, nursing unions, medical associations, patient groups, academics and think-tanks — there is a recognition about what we need to do,” he said.
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