About 20% of Quebecers do not have a family doctor. Almost 11,000 people are waiting over a year for medically necessary surgeries (including cancer surgeries) and the backlog of elective surgeries is 161,000 which will take years, if not decades to clear. Emergency rooms are as crowded as ever. Ambulances take too long to arrive and the list goes on.
In 2019, when Bill 21 was introduced in the National Assembly, I got a lot of attention when I said, “The results of Bill 21 will be ethnic cleansing, not with a gun, but with a law.”
Health care in Canada was ranked 10th of 11 comparable wealthy countries by the Commonwealth Fund in their most recent report. They were ahead of only the US and that was primarily because the US does not have universal health care.
Why is Bill 21 so bad?
The law bans people in various positions of authority in the Quebec civil service from wearing religious symbols. It applies to judges, prosecutors, teachers, prison guards, police officers, government inspectors and others.
Cochlear Implant surgery finally comes to Montreal “Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.” –Hellen Keller While I was never totally deaf,
For decades the Quebec Liberal Party has betrayed its core supporters, the English and minorities. Even in the face of plunging poll numbers and virtually
Over the past few years, we have been reading about renovictions and how they reduce affordable housing which is in short supply in Montreal. In
Health Care Under Bill 96, the CAQ’s new language law, you are not guaranteed English health services, even in Montreal. Further, hospitals, clinics and other
It is ironic that in trying to protect the French language and culture in Quebec by reducing the rights of English speakers and minorities, the economy and health care will be damaged so much that the end result will be the opposite…
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