Horgan can buy his own advertising
The Canadian Press – August 3, 2022 / 15:20 | History: 378588
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Premier John Horgan answers questions from the media in Victoria, British Columbia, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. The premier says he is considering taking the same approach as a Victoria couple who placed a newspaper ad to find a family doctor in an attempt to put pressure on the federal government to increase health care funding. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Ippolito
British Columbia Premier John Horgan says he is considering taking the same approach as a Victorian couple who placed a newspaper ad to find a family doctor in an effort to pressure the federal government to increase health care funding.
Horgan says the ad worked for Janet and Michael Mort, who now have a family doctor after months of searching, prompting him to use the same tactic after previous failed attempts to secure more federal health dollars.
However, Janet Mort says she is unhappy that she and her husband had to resort to public action to get health care and is offended by Horgan’s “ironic response”.
Mort, who received an Order of British Columbia for her work in public education, says she wrote a letter to Horgan asking for a meeting to discuss rebuilding health care in British Columbia, with or without federal help.
Mort says several doctors have contacted her since placing the ad in the Victoria Times-Colonist, and her 82-year-old husband already has a Thursday appointment with his new family doctor.
Horgan says Canada’s premiers lobbied the federal government for increased health funding last month during meetings in Victoria.
About a million people in British Columbia do not have a family doctor.
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