By attacking Trudeau for spending ‘all the money’, after committing to honour his health-funding proposal, Pierre Poilievre is telling Canadians he won’t find the funds to for their highest priorities
It was smart for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to quickly announce that he would honour the health-funding proposal Justin Trudeau put forward on Tuesday. It showed that he learned an important political lesson from former prime minister Stephen Harper.
Back in 2004, when then-Liberal prime minister Paul Martin struck a major health-funding deal with premiers after high-pressure talks in Ottawa, Mr. Harper, then the leader of the opposition, endorsed it. When Mr. Trudeau put forward his own beefed up funding plan for health care, Mr. Poilievre was similarly quick to say he would keep the Liberal deal if he were prime minister.
Then when asked if a Conservative would provide more money for health care, he said this: “Unfortunately, there is no money.” And Canada is not actually out of money. Politicians can argue that there should be no more spending, and no more debt, but not that there is no way to spend. Governments have shown us they can find ways. Mr. Poilievre promises to cut spending, through vague assertions that he will cut waste, but if Mr. Trudeau’s health-funding plan really is inadequate for dealing with a crisis, he could propose to cut spending on lower priorities in order to provide more for health care.
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