Liberals: Good management

Since 2003, health care in Ontario is stronger, better-run, more transparent and more accountable. Your Liberal government is investing in hospitals again (including all three hospitals that serve western Mississauga). Wait times are public, for the first time in Ontario history. Management of health care budgets has moved closer to Ontario's communities through the Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs). The system will be there when you need it.

Commitment to Medicare now in the law!

The creeping privatization ended with the passage of Bill 8, the Commitment to Medicare Act in 2004. Hospitals and their management are now more accountable, both to the Ministry of Health and to their communities.

Wait times public and coming down

Wondering how long it will take to have a procedure done? Now you can see the actual numbers at the Ontario Wait Times web site. Even in a high-growth area like western Mississauga, more procedures are being funded, and wait times are coming down.

Capital investment in hospitals

Hospitals closed on this government's watch: none! Hospital capital building projects underway or in planning: more than five dozen!.

Action on drug accessibility, prices

This government's legislation to provide patients with access to new drugs quicker and ensure significant short-and long-term savings will benefit seniors, whose lives depend on safe, state-of-the-art medication.

More nurses

Ontario has now hired most of its planned 8,000 new nurses. The Province has guaranteed every nursing graduate a job in Ontario.

Tories: Gutted health care

• John Tory has committed the Ontario PC Party to cutting $2.6 billion annually from Ontario's health care budget, but won't say where he will get the money to make up for it;
• Between 1995 and 2003, the PC government closed more than 7,000 hospital beds, and fired 10,000 nurses.
• The Tories cut $80 million from OHIP in one year, and downloaded costs. On their watch, the number of underserviced communities in Ontario more than doubled: from 63 to 142;
• How can you believe them when every action they took while in government pointed Ontario toward U.S.-style, expensive private health care;
• Ask your U.S. friends how much their monthly health care premiums are, and how many deductibles those sky-high premiums include!

NDP: Complete incompetence

• Voted against Ontario's Commitment to Medicare Act;
• While in government between 1990 and 1995, the NDP delisted 388 products from the Ontario Drug Benefit Plan and reducd coverage for out-of-country OHIP payments;
• The NDP opposed the capital project to build Phase II at Credit Valley Hospital;
• You can't believe a word the NDP says on health care.