OUELLETTE: THRONE SPEECH IGNORES HEALTH CARE FUNDING FOR OSHAWA

MPP says Throne Speech doesn’t mention funding for high-growth communities

Queen’s Park – Oshawa MPP Jerry Ouellette MPP today said the McGuinty Liberals failed to address the important issue of health care funding for high growth communities like Oshawa in yesterday’s Throne Speech.

“The Throne Speech failed to even make mention of the McGuinty Liberals platform promise to invest in health care services for high growth communities such as Oshawa,” said MPP Ouellette. “Dalton McGuinty has had four years to deliver results for the people of Oshawa but residents are still being forced to seek treatment outside of their own communities.”

“People in Oshawa should be able to count on their local health care services,” added Ouellette. “The communities surrounding the GTA are growing at twice the rate of most communities in Ontario but receive less per-capita operational funding for health care. Dalton McGuinty has done little more than deliver empty words to deal with this issue.”

For the past ten years, the population in the GTA/905 has grown by 100,000 per year. That is twice the rate of the rest of Ontario and is expected to continue. As a result, Ouellette has called on the government to increase funding for healthcare in the 905 region.

“The fact that yesterday’s Throne Speech did not even address this issue is proof of Dalton McGuinty’s continued neglect of this issue. It’s time he stepped up and delivered the level of health care services that the people of Oshawa deserve.”