Health in the Election

Question 1

Green Party

Answer 1

• Declare national health emergency for opioid crisis (same as NDP)
• Decriminalize all drugs
• free dental care for low-income citizens

Question 2

Conservative

Answer 2

• Promise to increase Canada Health Transfer and Canada Social Transfer by at least 3% each year
• Pledged 1.5 billion to improve CT & MRI wait times
• Revise drug and substance strategy

Question 3

NDP

Answer 3

• mental healthcare should be available at no cost to people who need it
• Introduced targeted strategy to increase mental health among farmers
• Bettter mental health and addiction support to attack poverty
• Declare national health emergency for opioid crisis

Question 4

Liberal

Answer 4

• Access to mental health services
• Ease safe injection sites
• Increase annual health transfer by at least 3%

Question 5

Additional

Answer 5

• all parties except Conservatives want to introduce a publicly funded pharmacare

Question 6

Treena Orchard

Answer 6

• Rates of domestic violence and murders of indigenous women have not gone down
• gender impacts family and kids
• need a more proactive government
• tremendous amount of inequity
• Conservatives want to introduce budget cuts to important programs