Posts by Michelle Neill
More Private Health Care Doesn’t Fix The Crisis
We are worried about the growing list of Islanders who can’t get a family doctor, the escalating issue of Emergency Room closures, and the increasing response times for ambulances from one end of the province to the other. Statements made by the three Conservative Maritime Premiers during their meeting with Conservative Ontario Premier Doug Ford,…
Read MoreRural Healthcare Broken by King Government
The closure of the Collaborative Emergency Centre (CEC) at Western Hospital until at least September 15, with no reassurance of its reopening is the latest failure of the King government to provide necessary health services to rural Islanders. In February this year, a West Prince man died while waiting for more than an hour for an ambulance. The King government…
Read MoreCabinet Shuffle has Questionable Benefits
Charlottetown July 15, 2022: The cabinet shuffle is a longstanding government tradition at least as old as the John A MacDonald government, but why does it happen, and who benefits from it? Speculation, rumors, and uncertainty abound in the preamble and wake of a premier or prime minister’s motivation for such a move. Let’s look…
Read More