Everyone has a beloved Grandma, Grandpa, Mother or Father that they wish to honour by seeing they get the best health care possible. The Green Party of Ontario wishes to serve our seniors by improving the care available to Ontario's aging population. This is especially important in Niagara West-Glanbrook because a large part of our population is over 65 years old and we need to make sure that our seniors are being looked after.
Last week I was very pleased to read about the possible expansion of the GO train to Grimsby. Having the GO train extended to Grimsby would help with traffic on the QEW and help with the ever growing problem of urban sprawl. Most of all the extension of the GO train would open up the discussion for possible public transit in Grimsby and other towns in Niagara West-Glanbrook. Many of our seniors could use public transit to travel to their various health care appointments as well as any other desired destinations in the area.
The Green Party of Ontario wants to ensure that seniors receive the continuum of care they need where they want it by improving home care, transitional care, assisted living and long-term care. The GPO wants to serve our seniors by creating case managers at the family clinic level to proactively coordinate the care seniors need, and the GPO wants to support all long-term care facilities to provide services in compliance with provincial standards. The GPO aims to make health promotion and illness prevention a top priority, to ensure our seniors and everyone stay healthy. To promote a healthy lifestyle the GPO wishes to feed our communities by championing stronger local farms. Farms like the ones that have booths at the market, which moved downtown Grimsby this week. If you have not yet been - check it out.
I was so pleased to attend the local market this week. As the Green Party of Ontario candidate for Niagara West-Glandbrook I am always happy to see the support that goes towards our local farmers market . Moving the market downtown means more people will attend which could create a higher demand for local goods/produce. The market is open Thursdays 3-7pm with approximately 30 vendors. I look forward to shopping there tomorrow!
As citizens of Niagara West-Glanbrook we all want to honour our seniors and we need to do this by promoting access to quality, sustainable health care close to home. We need to ensure we have quality public health care and we need to make sure on Oct. 6 we elect MPPs that will continue to honour our seniors with quality health care. We need to ensure we don't allow what happened to public education under the Harris's Conservatives to happen to our public health care. Under Harris's Conservatives the reform of the public education system drastically cut funding for the newer, larger school boards under-funding public schools and creating school boards that were too big to manage. The quality of public education went down. Essentially the tax cuts achieved during the Harris Conservatives reign were on the backs of the public schools. (for more information on public education read Playing Fast and Loose with the Public Education). Citizens of Ontario and especially citizens of Niagara West-Glanbrook, with so many seniors, need to elect MPPs that will not make tax cuts on the back of our public health care system.
To ensure we have enough money to continue providing citizens with quality health care we need to get our spending on health care under control. Ontario Minister of Health Deb Matthews stated that, "our government has increased funding to the Niagara Health System by more than 50 per cent since 2003." This is not to say that the Liberal government does not provide quality health care, but rather says that the Liberal government provides quality health care in a fiscally inefficient way. The GPO wants to provide health care in a fiscally responsible manner, the GPO believes that less spending can result in more services and better health. The GPO advocates for preventive health care, healthy food, clean air and water, and access to health care when citizens need it. We wish for Ontarians to stay healthy and avoid expensive cures for illnesses. This is the cause of our health care spending spiralling out of control. Serve our seniors in Niagara West-Glanbrook by voting for a party that will not cut funding to public health care and will promote healthy living and preventive health care. We need Green MPPs at Queen's Park. Honour your Grandma, Grandpa, Mother or Father by voting Green Oct. 6
Together, we can be the change we want to see.
It's time, Niagara. Vote Green.
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