Ontario government 2023 pre-budget consultation held at Delta Hotel
While in Sault Ste. Marie for Ontario government 2023 pre-budget consultations at the Delta Hotel on Tuesday, two NDP MPPs shared their thoughts with SooToday regarding their party’s call for more funding for the province’s troubled healthcare system.
The Ontario government has filed an appeal of a court decision that struck down Bill 124 but the legislation continues to anger unions.Bill 124 critics have said that the legislation’s one per cent wage increase cap has not only led some Ontario nurses to leave the profession - complaining of being overworked and underpaid - but has also discouraged younger people from entering the nursing profession.
Temporary emergency department closures have occurred in some hospitals in Ontario - and across Canada - but so far not at Sault Area Hospital. The New Democrat MPPs said they have heard calls for increased funding from Canadian Mental Health Association branches and Ontario Medical Association members as the pre-budget consultations swing through Ontario communities.
“The most important option is to invest into the healthcare that people need. Here in Ontario we value our publicly delivered and publicly funded healthcare because you should be able to get the healthcare when and where you need it regardless of your ability to pay,” Kernaghan said. “There’s $4.5 billion in a contingency fund that is unallocated. We’ve made the case for the investment because there is a cost to not investing. At the end of the day we’ll see where this government lands on healthcare. Right now, they're doing one-off little investments in communities which is not a systemic approach to the entire healthcare system.”“All the different CMHA branches that we have heard from say they have been suffering with underfunding for over 10 years.
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