Simon Rowland NDP Candidate for Eglinton Lawrence riding

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NDP Candidate for Eglinton-Lawrence, Toronto

The NDP Position on Health Care
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The NDP is commited to ensuring you and your family receive the best health care possible. Help Simon Rowland fight for your rights on your behalf in Ottawa. Vote for Simon Rowland on November 27th.

Think how much better Canada could be.

What's more important for you and your family? Tax cuts for big corporations and the wealthy or better health care?

The Liberals give billions in tax cuts to the corporations instead of giving working families the services they need. Only New Democrats will put money back into the things that matter to you and your family.

  • For the past 10 years, the big corporations and the banks have shaped the agenda for the federal government. They put tax cuts for themselves ahead of waiting lists in hospitals, cutting pollution or cutting the rate of child poverty.

  • With a nearly $20 billion surplus this year alone, we have the money to build the kind of Canada you and your family really want - with quality health care, affordable education, a safe and clean environment, decent jobs and an end to child poverty and homelessness. poverty.

  • The big corporations and the banks are telling Ottawa they need tax cuts more than you and your family need health care and other important services.

  • The Liberals listen. They just gave big corporations, banks and stockbrokers billions in tax cuts. And they gave next to nothing for services that matter to families like yours.

  • The Alliance will give even more to the corporations - and even less in services for working families.

  • The Conservatives want you to forget about the big cutbacks and tax breaks they gave to corporations when they were government.

  • Only the New Democrats will listen to the needs of families like yours and put money back into in the things that matter to Canadians. We'll increase federal money for health care and add home care and help with prescription drugs to Medicare.

The NDP will rebuild health care to meet the needs of all Canadians, protecting and enhancing its public, universal character while bringing in the changes needed to ensure it's affordable in the future. The NDP will:

  • Immediately increase federal cash transfers for health care to 25 per cent of shared public health spending from the low of 13.5 per cent under the Liberals.

  • Halt the drift towards privatization and two-tier health care by legislation preventing public health dollars from funding private, for-profit hospitals.

  • Create a national home care plan under the Canada Health Act to support families caring for their loved ones out-side of institutions.

  • Introduce a national pharmacare plan.

  • New Democrats believe that for all Canadians to have quality health care, the federal government has to stand up for: primary care reform, the setting and keeping of national standards, training and recruitment of health care workers, and innovative ways of getting the best value for the health care dollar.

The New Democrats - Think how much better Canada could be.

Help Simon fight for your rights on your behalf in Ottawa. Vote for Simon Rowland on November 27th.

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