NDP Health and Long-Term Care Critic and Nickel Belt MPP France Gélinas says today’s revelation of a secret $236-million eHealth deal is just more of the same from an agency that has already presided over a $1-billion boondoggle and a McGuinty government that seems to have learned nothing in the wake of a scathing Auditor General’s report.

NDP Health Critic and Nickel Belt MPP France Gélinas is once again raising concerns about cuts to housekeeping services at hospitals across the province and what that means for infection control during the H1N1 outbreak.

The five Liberal MPPs including David Ramsay should apologize to their constituents for voting against proposals that would have strengthened the accountability and transparency of healthcare dollars, said NDP Health Critic France Gélinas.

Tout en félicitant le commissaire aux services en français de l’Ontario du rapport qu’il a publié aujourd’hui, la porte-parole néo-démocrate en matière d’Affaires francophones, France Gélinas, déplore du même souffle l’attitude minimaliste face aux services en français de la part du gouvernement McGuinty, tel que décriée dans le rapport.

Nickel Belt MPP and NDP Health and Long-Term Care Critic France Gélinas’ motion calling on the Auditor General to launch a special probe into consultant contracts at hospitals and Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) passed this morning.

NDP Health Promotion Critic and Nickel Belt MPP France Gélinas says the McGuinty government’s cuts to “Smoke Free Ontario” make no financial sense.

During today’s Question Period, Gélinas revealed that the so-called Ministry of Health Promotion has slashed the Smoke Free budget by almost one-third. According to figures compiled by the Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco (OCAT) Strategy, funding has been reduced from $60-million last year to $42.8-million this year.