(Queen’s Park) – The McGuinty Liberals today voted against a motion that called on the McGuinty government to acknowledge and create a plan to ease the current health care crisis in numerous Ontario communities.  

“The Liberal MPPs who voted against today’s motion have failed to listen to their constituents,” charged Progressive Conservative Health Critic, Elizabeth Witmer. “Those MPPs failed to stand up for their constituents and acknowledge the health care cuts to hospital services and even the pending closure of hospitals in local communities.”

Witmer spoke today as part of an Opposition Day motion proposed by the Progressive Conservatives Caucus calling on the McGuinty Liberals to develop a health care plan to address growing hospital volumes and deficits, protect patients’ services and prevent nurses from being fired.

The PC motion came on the same day that nearly 2,000 Ontarians descended on Queen’s Park to protest McGuinty Liberal policies that have led to cuts in of health care services and hospitals, particularly in rural and small-town Ontario.  

In 2003, Dalton McGuinty promised to unclog emergency rooms and improve access to health care. Instead he introduced the Health Tax, which has taken $12 billion out of the pockets of Ontarians and policies which have contributed to the erosion of health services in hospitals.

Click here to view video of today’s protest.

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For more information:

Elizabeth Witmer, MPP

(416) 325-1306