‘Healthcare is everyone’s business’

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Trudeau and company have no skin in the game. They presided while healthcare delivery deteriorated from no two-tier healthcare to no healthcare available. They cannot be allowed to continue to dictate to provinces from afar. They don’t have the expertise to fix the system.

Sharing medical information between provinces is vital. Access to a central system means the person visiting another province can get proper care if the local hospital or clinic can access their records. There is no need to share the database with the federal government. It is not a primary caregiver. No personal medical information should be shared internationally, except on an authorized case-by-case basis if a Canadian is ill or injured in a foreign nation. Attempts at developing an international traveller registry are not in our interests. Our personal information is not for sale or use by unelected foreign bodies. Digital IDs are a means of controlling everything we do at some future point.

We need a citizen’s forum to oversee the revamping of our healthcare delivery. The forum must include doctors, nurses, technicians and support staff representatives. Working together, we can identify the trouble areas and produce a plan to address them. The monitoring has to be ongoing, so if a proposed fix is not working, it can be killed and replaced with a better solution.

Healthcare is everyone’s business. We are spending billions and not getting what we pay for. That must be fixed. Trudeau can stop his

‘let’s make deals’ approach, take care of his healthcare delivery duties and allow provinces to satisfy the public. We are the consumers and financial supporters. We are demanding that governments quit jawing and get on with healthcare reform.

Canadians are fed up with the endless federal-provincial tug-of-war. They are looking to provinces to fix healthcare delivery. Procrastination is off the table.