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From YouTube: MAY 19 2022 Question Period
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
3rd Session
42nd Parliament
B
B
No,
in
fact,
they're
going
to
be
parents,
they
will
be
families
and
there
will
be
children,
and
they
will
be
here
to
remind
government
that
they
are
unable
to
get
a
family
doctor
in
our
province.
Some
of
them
are
in
the
gallery
today,
including
camille
curry,
whose
petition
has
garnered
over
42
000
signatures.
B
B
D
D
and
that
work
and
the
challenges
facing
family
practice,
specialty
and
family
practice.
Medicine
are
significant
and
that's.
Why
we're
doing
the
work
we're
doing
to
work
with
family
practice,
doctors
to
to
develop
lasting
solutions
to
the
issues
they
face,
but
more
particularly
to
the
issues
of
those
who
need
family
practice,
medicine
bc
and
need
better
primary
care
in
our
problems?
And
that's
why
we're
doing
the
work
as
we've
done
throughout
the
pandemic,
to
address
these
issues
step
by
step,
working
together
with
all
health
care
workers
and
professionals
across
all
disciplines.
B
Well,
thank
you
to
the
minister,
and
you
know,
day
after
day
after
day
in
this
legislature,
the
minister
gets
up
and
fails
to
acknowledge
the
reality
of
family
practice,
physicians
and
families
in
british
columbia.
And
if,
if
the
minister
wants
to
talk
about
objective
facts,
he
should
look
in
his
own
briefing
book
when
it
comes
to
the
number
of
unattached
patients,
because
I
will
quote
from
from
his
briefing
note
that
in
2017
2018,
the
number
of
unattached
patients
with
776
000
and
the
minister
can
shake
his
head.
His
staff
wrote
this
briefing
note.
B
B
The
minister
of
health
recently
confirmed
to
us
in
a
letter
that
urgent
and
primary
care
centers
have
attached
less
than
two
percent
less
than
two
percent
of
the
people
who
don't
have
a
doctor
in
this
province.
Let's
talk
about
objective
facts
shared
directly
with
us
by
this
minister
in
the
premier's
backyard,
the
west
shore
upcc,
has
just
one
doctor
of
the
7.2
it
is
supposed
to
have,
and
the
west
shore
community
health
center
has
no
health
providers.
Only
1.2
administrative
staff,
ftes
richmond's
primary
care
network,
has
been
running
for
three
years.
B
D
Well,
honorable
speaker,
healthcare
is
and
remains
the
priority
of
this
government,
and
that's
been
demonstrated
in
substance
in
substance
from
the
beginning,
honorable
speaker
in
substance
from
the
beginning,
and
it
goes
across
health
care
and
family
practice.
Doctors
know
this
better
than
anyone
else
in
long-term
care.
85
percent
of
care
homes
didn't
meet
the
government's
own
standard.
We
changed
that
by
investing
and
giving
urgency
to
it
in
terms
of
surgical
renewal.
D
When
we
made
the
very
difficult
decision
to
delay
surgeries
in
march
of
2020,
we
promised
people
we
get
those
surgeries
done
and
we
have
reducing
surgical,
wait
lists
in
those
periods
when
the
whole
primary
care
system
was
facing
enormous
challenge.
We
worked
together
with
family
practice
doctors
to
make
changes
that
allowed
us
to
maintain
services
during
this
period.
D
Yes,
we've
added
in
cooperation
with
divisions
of
family
practice,
59
primary
care
networks,
we've
added
urgent
and
primary
care,
centers
that
have
delivered
1
million
and
84
000
visits
and
largely
in
a
time
of
pandemic
when
in-person
visits
were
needed.
Honorable
speaker,
these
are
all
steps
and
more
steps
are
required.
D
D
In
the
past,
so
we
need
an
approach
that
works
with
family
practice,
doctors
to
address
the
problems
they
have,
that
works
with
resident
doctors
to
make
family
practice
more
attractive
to
them,
and
we
are
going
to
continue
to
work
together
with
them.
In
the
same
way
we
did
on
single
site.
On
the
same
day,
we
did
on
surgery.
In
the
same
way,
we
did
in
long-term
care
and
the
same
day
we
we
did
during
the
pandemic.
E
We
have
250
000
additional
unattached
patients
under
this
minister's
watch
and
it's
no
wonder
that
we
have
less
than
two
percent
of
of
of
this
million
people
without
a
family
doctor
that
have
found
any
attachment
in
the
upcc's
that
this
minister
brags
about,
because
there
are
no
doctors
working
at
them.
In
the
abbotsford
upcc
there
is
half
a
doctor.
E
D
Thank
you
very
much,
honourable
chair
and
and
as
the
member
will
know,
in
2020,
we
had
a
pandemic
declared
in
bc
and
the
need
the
need
and
the
change
and
the
transformation
in
primary
care
that
was
required
urgently
required
was
significant
and
urgent.
Primary
care
centers
we're
one
part
of
that,
and
we
have
had
one
million
and
eighty
four
thousand
visits
and
if
the,
if
the
members
are
suggesting
it
would
be
better
if
we
hadn't
had
those
one,
eight
thousand
eighty
four
thousand
dirt
they're
incorrect.
C
D
Order
we,
we
have
59
primary
care
networks
that
have
attached
142
000
people.
That
is
the
fact,
and
that's
the
work
of
family
practice.
Doctors
and
the
community
we've
increased
the
family
practice
residency
program
to
make
it
the
biggest
in
canada.
We've
made
it
the
biggest
in
canada,
and
what
we
need
to
do,
it
seems
to
me
honorable
speaker,
is
continue
our
work
with
family
practice.
Doctors,
that's
what
we
do.
That's
how
we've
taken
on
these
extraordinary
health
care
challenges
in
this
time
of
pandemic
in
this
time
of
the
overdose
public
health
emergencies.
D
How
we've
taken
on
these
challenges
together
and
we're
going
to
continue
to
do
that?
Work,
honourable
speaker,
and
that
means
investing
in
primary
care,
not
abandoning
it.
That
means
investing
in
surgical
care,
not
abandoning
it.
That
being
said,
that
means
building
building
hospital
projects
and
the
members
constituencies
heckling
and
the
other
member
who's
heckling
and
the
other
member
who's
heckling
new
hospital
projects
that
demonstrate
the
priority
of
healthcare
of
this
government.
Honorable
speaker
we're
just
going
to
continue
to
do
that.
E
Thank
you
so
much
honorable
speaker,
while
the
minister
wants
to
brag
about
residency
positions
opened,
he
might
want
to
actually
confirm
that
those
residency
positions
were
filled
because,
in
speaking
with
some
physicians
this
morning
at
breakfast
I
learned
for
the
first
time
in
history
of
british
columbia.
Those
residency
positions
were
not
filled,
the
upcc's
are
ineffective
and
it's
time
for
this
minister
to
recognize
it
british
colombians
are
desperate
and
not
buying
the
upc
way.
E
The
ndp
think
a
billion
dollar
vanity
museum
project
is
more
important
than
the
fact
that
one
in
five
british
columbians
don't
have
a
family
doctor
in
the
primary
care
network
for
white
rock
and
south
surrey.
There
are
only
33
percent
of
the
doctors
that
there
are
supposed
to
be
samia.
Medler
says,
and
I
quote:
we
need
to
do
better.
Closing
down
emergency
rooms
and
no
walking
clinics
is
a
is
ridiculous.
D
C
D
Honourable
speaker,
we
have
a
system
of
primary
care
in
bc
that
has
been
in
need
of
reform
for
a
long
time.
We
need
to
deliver
on
team-based
care
and
we're
doing
that
in
partnership
with
family
practice,
doctors
and
we
need
to
work
to
resolve
the
issues
that
they
have
in
communities,
issues
fundamental
issues
of
cost
of
increasing
complexity
of
patients
that
they
are
seeing
in
their
communities
a
fee
for
service
system.
That
inadequately
reflects
the
work
that
is
done
by
our
family
practice
doctors
every
day,
and
we
need
to
do
that.
Work
together.
F
Thank
you,
honorable
speaker
and
many
of
us
were
at
the
same
breakfast
this
morning
with
family
doctors,
and
I
think
what
we
heard
was
that
doctors
don't
feel
that
they're
being
worked
with
or
listened
to,
particularly
right
now,
one
in
five
british
columbians
do
not
have
a
family
doctor
and
many
more
at
risk
of
losing
the
doctor.
They
have,
and
this
government
has
done,
astonishingly
little
in
this
moment
of
crisis
for
longitudinal
care.
F
F
Family
doctors
are
burning
out
trying
to
meet
the
needs
of
their
patients,
but
it's
becoming
harder
and
harder.
Their
solutions
are
not
impossible.
They're
right
there
on
the
table,
if
the
premier
or
the
minister
of
health
was
willing
to
look
at
them.
The
family
doctors
have
been
consistent
about
what
they
need
right
now.
They
need
overhead
support
to
pay
for
rent
and
staff
and
administration.
F
They
need
to
work
as
a
team
and
be
supported
in
that
they
need
billing
rates
that
reflect
their
12
years
of
education,
their
value
to
the
health
of
british
columbians.
The
minister
talks
about
how
new
feed
codes
were
brought
in
for
virtual
visits.
At
the
beginning
of
the
pandemic.
We
don't
have
the
ability
for
doctors
to
address
the
difference
between
a
five-minute
visit
and
a
25-minute
visit
for
complex
care.
We
don't
even
have
a
fee
code,
yet
honorable
speaker
for
long
covet.
F
C
D
One
can
always
argue
that
that's
insufficient,
but
that
was
directed
honourable
speaker
and
the
decisions
to
hire
the
people
that
were
hired
were
directed
and
supported
by
local
divisions
of
family
practice.
In
all
of
those
cases,
such
that
in
the
fraser
northwest
primary
care
network,
a
very
significant
hiring
was
done
of
mental
health,
supports
and
counselors
176,
honorable
speaker,
new
mental
health
and
addiction
workers
to
support
the
work.
That's
led
by
primary
care,
doctors
and
community
and
the
reason
those
decisions
were
made
was
that
those
were
the
priorities
put
forward
by
by
family
practice.
D
Doctors
themselves.
So
we
have
to
continue
to
do
that,
work
to
build
team-based
care
and
to
work
to
address
the
challenges
of
the
primary
care
system.
The
member
is
quite
right.
We
have
the
most
fee
for
service
system
in
canada,
it's
about
80,
of
our
billings
and
about
65
percent
of
our
doctors
get
more
than
80
of
their
buildings
from
fee-for-service,
and
that
presents
very
serious
challenges
in
a
time
of
increasing
complexity.
And
that's
why
we
have
to
work
with
doctors
on
these
issues
and
we
are.
F
F
And
the
fact
that
it's
family
doctors
who
are
telling
us
over
and
over
again
that
the
conditions
right
now
are
causing
burnout
are
causing
them
to
leave
their
practices
and
who
suffers
the
outcomes
from
that.
That
is
the
patients
who
no
longer
have
access
to
the
longitudinal
care
that
we
know
provides
better
health
outcomes
for
people.
F
Family
doctors
are
the
backbone
of
medical
care
in
this
province,
and
british
columbians
are
better
off
by
having
that
relationship
with
a
family
doctor.
We
know
that
good
family
medicine
prevents
illness,
it
promotes
well-being
and
it
saves
lives,
but
this
government
has
done
very
little
to
support
that
relationship
between
doctors
and
their
patients.
F
F
The
premier
has
spoken
publicly
about
the
value
of
his
relationship
with
his
family
doctor.
He
should
expect
that,
for
the
citizens
of
this
province
that
he
serves,
millions
of
british
colombians
are
at
risk
of
losing
their
family
doctors.
What
is
this
premier
going
to
do
to
protect
that
relationship
and
put
solutions
in
right
now.
D
Thank
you
very
much
honourable
chair.
The
premier
is
committed
to
a
system
of
primary
care.
Team-Based
primary
care
and
community
is
committed
to
ensuring
people
have
access
to
a
family
practice.
Doctor
is
why
so
much
priority
is
given
to
this
area
now
has
been
throughout
the
pandemic
and
will
be
over
the
coming
days
and
weeks
as
we
work
with
family
practice,
doctors
on
the
real
challenges
that
they
face.
D
That's
what
we've
done.
We
have
taken
day
after
day
week
after
week,
serious
challenges
facing
our
health
care
system
in
a
time
of
two
public
health
emergencies,
two
public
health
emergencies
that
continue
to
endure
and
to
face
family
practice,
doctors
and
everyone
in
healthcare
every
day.
It's
why
we've
added
30
000
workers
to
our
public
health
care
system
over
two
years.
D
Why
we're
going
to
continue
at
every
level?
Doctors
and
nurses,
nurse
practitioners
and
health
sciences,
professionals
and
healthcare
workers
to
do
that?
Work.
We're
going
to
continue
to
do
that,
work,
to
build
out
team-based
care
and
to
support
family
practice.
Doctors,
as
we
understand
I
understand
not
only
as
someone
who
lives
with
a
chronic
disease
but
as
minister
of
health
is
someone
who
talks
to
patients
every
day,
the
value
of
family
practice,
medicine
and
that's.
Why
we're
going
to
continue
to
take
steps
to
support.
A
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
Instead
of
protecting
our
children
from
earthquakes,
the
ndp
are
prioritizing
the
seismic
upgrade
of
a
billion
dollar
vanity
museum
project.
Not
a
single
ndp
minister
has
prioritized
seismically
upgrading
the
250
unsafe
schools
across
this
province
over
this
vanity
museum
project.
A
The
minister
of
lands
won't
speak
about
the
wikininish
community
school
in
tofino.
The
minister
of
mental
health
and
addictions
won't
speak
up
for
the
more
than
30
schools
in
her
riding
that
are
seismically
unsafe
and
the
minister
of
tourism,
five
unsafe
schools
in
her
riding,
including
grandview
and
admiral
seymour
elementary
will.
Even
one
of
these
ministers
stand
up
and
do
the
right
thing
and
call
for
the
cancellation
of
this
billion
dollar
vanity
museum.
G
We
did
not
close
250
schools
over
the
last
four
years,
honorable
speaker,
no,
what
we
did
was
invest
three
billion
dollars
over
the
last
four
years
and
another
2.6
billion
in
the
next
three
years
to
build
new
schools
to
build
additions
at
schools
to
provide
upgraded,
hvac
and
ventilation
to
take
care
of
maintenance
and
to
seismically
mitigate
schools.
Honorable
speaker,
since
2017
we
funded
58
projects,
there's
another
number
of
projects
in
the
hopper.
We
are
committed
to
accelerating
we've
done
more
seismic
upgrade
projects.
G
H
Not
quite
sure,
mr
speaker,
why
that
would
get
applause
the
minister
can
say
what
she
wants,
but
the
bottom
line
for
parents
is
that
this
ndp
government's
priority
is
a
billion
dollar
vanity
museum
project.
Instead
of
student
safety,
one
billion
dollars
would
upgrade
half
the
remaining
schools
that
need
seismic
upgrading.
H
G
C
C
G
C
G
C
I
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
Well,
the
fact
of
the
matter
is
this
is
what
parents
are
are
are
talking
about.
Parents
of
children
that
are
in
elementary
and
secondary
schools
across
this.
This
province
that
are
in
need
of
seismic
upgrades
are,
are
begging
for
this
government
to
provide
them
with
a
rational
explanation
for
why
this
government
would
prioritize
one
billion
dollars
for
a
vanity
museum
project
in
in
the
premier's
backyard
over
seismic
upgrading
half
of
the
remaining
schools
that
need
those
upgrades.
That's
the
choice
that
this
makes.
I
So
yeah
we
just
heard
a
school
at
willow's
willows
bay,
willows
elementary
school
in
oak
bay.
If
the
minister
of
indigenous
relations
and
reconciliation
isn't
going
to
stand
up
for
children
in
his
writing.
With
respect
to
the
seismic
upgrades
at
that
elementary
school,
maybe
maybe
he'll.
Maybe
he'll
respond
to
this
scathing
statement
from
the
nation
which
was
released
yesterday,
they're
calling
on
the
ndp
to
scratch
the
premier's
billion
dollar
vanity
museum
project
and
here's.
I
What
chief
joe
alphonse
has
to
say-
and
I
quote
the
timing
for
this-
nearly
one
billion
dollar
spending
proposal
could
not
be
more
tone-deaf.
It's
irresponsible
of
this
government
to
move
ahead
with
this
when
so
many
issues
remain
unaddressed
in
this
province.
End
quote
the
premier's
vanity
museum
project
is
actually
quickly
becoming
one
of
the
most
expensive
museum
projects
potentially
to
ever
be
built
in
the
in
the
world.
I
It's
fast
becoming
a
fast
ferry's
2
2.0
project,
mr
speaker,
so
the
question
to
the
minister
of
indigenous
relations
is
is
this
is:
is
the
minister
of
indigenous
relations
going
to
listen
to
the
silica
team?
Is
he
going
to
listen
to
the
parents
of
of
willows
elementary
in
oak
bay,
and
is
he
going
to
listen
to
the
overwhelming
population
in
british
columbia
that
wants
this
government
to
scrap
the
1
billion
dollar
vanity
museum
project.
J
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
honorable
speaker
and
I
thank
the
member
of
his
question
because
it's
an
opportunity
to
remind
the
opposition
that
we
have
been
listening
to
parents
of
school
kids.
We
have
been
listening
to
parents
of
families
right
across
the
province
since
day,
one
when
they
sat
on
this
side
of
the
house.
They
quote
had
a
seismic
upgrading
program
that
had
a
goal.
They
didn't
need
it,
so
they
had
to
extend
it
on
those
speakers
because
they
failed
to
meet.