Susan Delacourt: Justin Trudeau calls Doug Ford’s for-profit health plans ‘innovation’
Justin Trudeau has decided — at least for now — to see Ontario’s moves toward for-profit medical care as “innovation” by Doug Ford’s government to resolve the health-care crisis gripping the country.
“I have been saying for years that delivery of health care is the business — is the responsibility — of the provinces,” Trudeau said when I asked why he’s been so quiet in the wake of Ontario’s recently announced measures — which some have said is a door opening to two-tier health care in Canada. The prime minister says he doesn’t mind if the health-care system looks different from province to province — and says, in fact, that this loose federation may be a bonus.
In a way, that’s not surprising coming from this federal Liberal government. Trudeau has been a big fan of the data revolution in politics and 21st-century campaigning, and the Liberal party has been highly immersed in fighting the data war in the political trenches. Where Conservatives once were the leaders in that data war, the Liberals are widely seen to have overtaken them in the past few elections, with sophisticated microtargeting techniques at the grassroots level.
“If people can actually see what’s happening across the country and see what the outcomes are, that’ll drive improvements,” he said. It was the pandemic, the prime minister said, that underlined the need for better data and measuring across the entire medicare system. In the early weeks after COVID-19 hit in March 2020, his government was struck by all the health-care information it didn’t have — and worse, couldn’t get.
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