Wynne Guarantees Around-The-Clock Primary Care by 2018

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne mentioned in an announcement made on Friday that if her government is reelected, it guarantees to deliver Ontarians access to around-the-clock primary health care by 2018. Addressing the reporters at the site of a new seven-story patient tower being built at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, Wynne alleged that “we need to recognize that everyone in the province has the right to have that kind of access.”

Premier Wynne unveiled her “Primary Care Guarantee,” as she boasted about the Liberals to have had made improvements to health care over the past decade by reversing cuts imposed by former PC premier Mike Harris’s government. She alleged that approximately 5,000 new doctors and more than 20,500 new nurses have been hired, which significantly improved surgical wait times and introduced Canada’s first nurse practitioner-led clinics with 25 communities across the province. She boasted that “because of the action that we’ve taken, today 93 per cent of Ontarians have access to a primary care physician or a nurse practitioner.” She added that “but I don’t think we should be satisfied until that number is 100 per cent.”

Wynne also criticized Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak’s plan to cut 100,000 public sector jobs. She alleged that cuts “will have a significant impact” on health-care providers and services, adding that “the fact is that Tim Hudak is putting all of this at risk, all of those advances that we’ve made and this guarantee that we can deliver on … He’s putting that at risk with a reckless commitment to fire 100,000 people if he forms government.”