October 26, 2020
Ms Gray: This government has talked openly about firing 11,000 of these front-line health care workers. Mr. Speaker, these are people washing laundry, making food, disinfecting rooms where we know COVID-19 is present. These workers, these very brave souls, have put their lives on the line for nine months now during a global pandemic, and the government won’t even tell them if they’ll get to keep their job when it’s over. To the minister: will you reverse course today on your plan to fire 11,000 health care workers? Yes or no?
Mr. Toews: Mr. Speaker, we just heard from the Minister of Health that they are going to very carefully and thoughtfully proceed with contracting out services that make sense. That will bring down our cost of health care service delivery in the province so that more dollars can go to front-line service delivery. We have a health care budget that is a record budget in the province of Alberta. The Minister of Health is making key moves to deliver more efficiently and effectively, and I support him in that effort.