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Vault of rookie MP into health portfolio raises eyebrows
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Oct 31, 2008 09:07pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, November 1, 2008 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | OTTAWA -- Rookie MP Leona Aglukkaq's dramatic leap from a rocky stint in Nunavut politics to federal health minister raised eyebrows and a few alarms Thursday.
"At first blush, it signifies to me the lack of importance that the federal government pays to health care," said Sid Ryan, general vice-president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
"There's a massive drive by the doctors' associations . . . to attack medicare and to attempt to privatize it. You put in somebody that's got no experience, and it just makes it all the more easy.
"And I don't really think the Tories have got much interest in defending the (Canada Health) Act to begin with."
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government has taken a pointedly hands-off approach to medicare, treating it as a largely provincial matter even as it transfers billions of dollars in yearly federal cash to help fund it. |
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