Tory Flip-Flop on long-term care

Budget 2015 is an embarrassment. It is an acknowledgement of abject failure in the running of provincial finances.

The Tories just love to remind people regularly about the past Liberal governments and point to this and that.

So for the next week or so I will blog on what the PC's said when in Opposition. It will of course be relevant to this years budget.

Budget 2003 Loyola Sullivan expressed this point of view:


Mr. Speaker, when the government brought down its election budget just two weeks ago, they justified quadrupling the deficit and increasing the Province's debt to well over $11 billion by saying they were only listening to the will of the people. 

In that same breath, the Minister of Finance said she plans to privatize the provision of long-term care in Corner Brook Mr. Speaker, the Romanow Commission into Canada's health care system recently reported that the overwhelming majority of Canadians do not want a private health care system. My question for the Premier is this: Why is it that his government is prepared to listen to the people in order to justify its election budget, but is not prepared to listen to the people when it comes to privatizing health care? Could it be that government is only interested in listening to the people when it suits their political agenda? (emphasis added)

Good question Minister Sullivan. Now let's see if we can get Steve Kent or the Premier to answer it.

Let's all remember that this current government has enjoyed a wealth of revenues from oil and minerals that previous governments did not have. Let's all remember the majority of that wealth came from deals made by the previous Liberal administration. 

This budget must be defeated.