The conservative leader Pierre Poilievre promises that a government directed by it would maintain the existing dental, pharmacutic and child care coverage.
At a campaign stop on Tuesday in Vaughan, Ontario, Pailievre was asked if he would cut those programs if he became Prime Minister.
“We will protect these programs and no one who has them will lose them,” said Poilievre, offering their most substantial response about the fate of these programs under a conservative government.
“We will make sure that no one loses their dental care.”
Pailievre did not stop to say that a conservative government would expand those programs beyond the agreements already in force.
His comments addressed a common line of attack by the liberal leader Mark Carney: that a conservative government would reduce social programs, including those born to the Liberal PND. Supply and trust agreement.
Last year, the opposition leader disputed The effectiveness of pharmacutical and dental care plans, which says that many Canadians already have access to drug coverage through plans in the workplace that offer better benefits.
The NDP leader, Jagmeet Singh, was quick to attack Pailievre changing his melody and caught attention to the fact that the conservative leader had voted against the projects of the dental care law and pharmacist.
The leader of the NDP, Jagmeet Singh, pointed to the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, saying that Pailievre’s comments that he would maintain programs such as Dental Care and Pharmacare were lies, pointing to the conservative leader who voted against the legislation. He said that Pailievre is only playing politics on the eve of an election. ‘
“You cannot trust a guy who has voted against the thing, he said it was something bad and then on the eve of an choice, suddenly he says: ‘Oh, no, no, no, I’m not going to cut it,” said Singh. “He is lying to you because he is afraid.”
Are the expansions out of discussion?
Pailievre also said that his government would address the cost and availability of child care by eliminating bureaucracy to give more flexibility to families, but did not explain how.
“Then, by honoring child care agreements with the provinces, we will give more freedom and flexibility to parents, suppliers and provinces to support the child care of all children … We should support all child care options,” he said.
He said there should be more affordable child care in this country, but criticized the liberal government system for being too bureaucratic and suggested that he led to less nursery spaces.
Some parents say that they are still on the waiting lists for places of child care, and the government program has faced a series of obstacles on the way to fulfilling its objective of 250,000 additional places by 2026.
One of the last acts of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister was to sign agreements that extended child care funds to the provinces until 2031.
A conservative spokesman said in a statement on Tuesday that a conservative government led by Pailievre “will honor the existing commitments related to the dental care program.
“No child will lose their child care of $ 10/day. We will honor the agreements with the provinces,” the spokesman wrote.
Those programs were planned to expand to More provinces and cover millions of more Canadians. The statement did not say if a conservative government would see it.
The Minister of Health, Kamal Khera, announced on Saturday that Canadians from 18 to 64 years could request in May the National Dental Insurance Program.
In a press release, Health Canada said that it is expected that up to 4.5 million Canadians without insurance between 18 and 64 “join” the plan, which already covers children, older people and residents with valid disability tax credits.
To qualify for coverage, applicants must be Canadian residents without access to dental insurance with a adjusted family income of less than $ 90,000.
The Government has said that in the first year of the program, more than 1.7 million Canadians received dental care services.
