Affordability and the economy are top of the agenda as the federal cabinet gathers at a winter retreat in Hamilton, Ont. But here in Nova Scotia, the crisis in health care is a huge issue. | SaltWire
| Posted: Jan. 24, 2023, 5:06 p.m. | Updated: Jan. 25, 2023, 8:17 a.m. | 17 Min Read
I think for the Houston government, like any government in the position like this, of course they promised big on health care. He wanted to win the election and he knew he could win the election because it was a sense of voter fatigue with the Liberals. And he knows that health care is on everyone's mind and is usually the most important issue to people.
And say “No, you're not the only people who can talk about quality standards in health care”. We can do that. We don't need to be told what to do. And I think that's where the needle is shifting a bit in the conversations that are happening now that makes them different than the conversations that we were having like in the nineties, because Trudeau is in the same position as, a very similar position as Chretien and Martin were in the nineties going into 2000.
And so health care is going to require different things and the government is going to have to take a different approach.I guess the argument in Ontario is that you don't care who you're being seen by, provided you're not paying out of pocket to get that care. But I guess to come back to Tim Houston's point, when he was elected, he said, it's going to be expensive and it's going to take time.
And so could that sort of rhetoric and thinking ever apply In Nova Scotia? I'm not saying it should but if it did, that's the way that the debate around service delivery would expand a lot. Obviously, we do have some privatization in service delivery but Doug Ford is talking about doing something quite, like it's not a question of them opening up more cataract offices even though that's the case in the beginning.
Well, if you look at something like health care, climate change, something that's going to take a while to implement, having some stability in parliament and having the parties be able to work together on something can help with long term planning. Because, there’s a sense this isn't just something we have to shove into a four year or shorter electoral cycle, but something that could, you know, endure over time.
Where are the people? But a politician can’t say that. He can’t go to the microphone and blame voters. So he's sort of trying to trying to skirt his way there. But I get it. People are switched off and we need to figure out how to switch back on.But I'm looking at the agenda for this Cabinet retreat: ongoing efforts to make Canada more affordable and to build an economy that works. So your Poilievre and you look at that and you go I’ve got him on my message now.
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