Manitoba election: PCs on track to underspend $1B on health care, NDP critic says

The Manitoba NDP https://globalnews.ca/tag/manitoba-ndp claims that since the Progressive Conservatives came into power in 2016, they have underspent on health care by over $600 million.

At a press conference in Windsor Park, Health Minister Audrey Gordon’s constituency, NDP health critic Uzoma Asagwara https://globalnews.ca/tag/uzoma-asagwara said the Tories are on track to leave $1 billion in funding for health care on the table.

“Heather Stefanson, Audrey Gordon and this PC government broke our health-care system. They aren’t the ones who are going to be able to fix it,” they said.

NDP spokesperson Mark Rosner said an analysis of provincial budgets and actuals at the end of each fiscal year found $698 million left unspent by the Tory government. Using those figures, the New Democrats project that figure will balloon to $911 million by next year.

Asagwara, MLA for Union Station, said despite announcing millions of dollars in health-care spending in the lead-up to the election, the PCs should not be trusted.

“They have a pattern of making announcements and not following through on their own commitments,” they said.

“The PCs can only be trusted to one thing and that is break their promises to Manitobans and fail on health care.”

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