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From YouTube: NOV 3 2022 Question Period
Description
The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
3rd Session
42nd Parliament
C
You
Mr
Speaker
Mr
Speaker,
BC's,
Cancer
Care
system
was
once
recognized
as
internationally
one
of
the
best
in
the
world,
but
that's
not
the
reality
anymore.
We
have
plummeting
quality
of
care,
and
now
we
have
some
of
the
worst
wait
times
in
the
country
in
British
Columbia,
only
20
percent
of
cancer
patients
referred
to
an
oncologist
are
being
seen
within
the
recommended
two-week
period.
Contrast
that
with
Ontario,
where
75
of
their
residents
are
being
seen
within
that
two-week
window
in
BC.
C
The
wait
times
for
cervical
cancer
screening
is
an
unacceptable
six
months
and
the
weight
for
radiation
therapy
is
the
worst
in
Canada.
We
are
dead.
Last
on
medical,
imaging
hundreds
of
thousands
of
British
Columbians
are
on
dangerously
long
wait
lists
waiting
to
be
seen
and
Radiologists
tell
us
that
these
delays
mean
the
British
Columbians
will
face
a
tsunami
of
late
stage
cancer
cases
in
the
years
ahead.
C
D
Minister
of
Health
well,
thank
you,
honorable,
speaker
and
I
appreciate.
Perhaps
the
member
forgot
the
last
line
of
his
question,
but
I,
but
honorable
speaker,
I,
am
what
I
would
suggest
is
that
issues
around
our
cancer
system
have
been
priorities.
In
the
last
two
budgets,
we
have
a
Minister
of
Finance
in
British
Columbia,
who
has
led
on
this
question
and
that's
why?
D
Because
of
her
personal
experience
and
because
of
her
knowledge
of
the
system,
and
so
in
the
last
two
budgets,
we've
added
resources
to
our
cancer
system
in
each
budget,
for
example,
the
41
million
dollar
increase
in
base
funding
this
year
on.
In
addition
to
our
our
funding
for
caseload,
meant
we
added
36
new
oncology
positions.
Honorable
speaker,
these
new
physician
roles,
combined
with
the
12
we
added
as
a
result
of
the
budget
in
2021
and
the
25
new
alternative
payment
program,
funded
positions,
means
they're,
we're
building
capacity,
that's
115.6,
F
new
ftes.
D
In
addition,
honorable
speaker,
we've
added
and
the
member
knows
this,
because
the
failure
of
diagnostic
care
under
the
previous
government
is
a
matter
of
record.
We
have
dramatic
medically
added
to
the
diagnostic
capacity
of
the
problems,
including
in
cancer
with
two
pet
new
PET
CT
scanning
machines
in
different
communities.
So
the
people
in
the
Okanagan
and
people
in
Vancouver
Island
can
benefit
from
care
that
they
never
benefited
from
before.
In
addition,
honorable
speaker,
17
net
new
MRI
machines
in
British
Columbia
and
an
additional
200
000
CT
scans.
We
are
going
to
continue.
D
We
are
going
to
continue
with
a
10-year
cancer
plan
to
lay
out
the
necessary
resources
to
deal
with
the
system
now,
but
also
honorable
speaker
to
deal
with
the
fact
that
over
the
next
10
to
15
years,
with
the
increase
in
our
aging
population,
we
need
to
respond
by
increasing
our
resources
in
oncology
and
everywhere
else
to
deal
what
we.
What
with
what
we
will
expect
to
be
more
age-related
cancer
in
BC.
C
Well,
thank
you,
Mr
Speaker,
I'm,
sure,
British
Columbians
feel
comforted
that
the
minister
and
the
NDP
caucus
find
it
humorous
and
can
laugh
at
the
fact
that
we
have
some
of
the
worst
wait
times
in
the
country.
Actually,
it's
no
laughing
matter
and
once
again,
what
we
see
from
this
member
is
the
total
lack
of
any
private
sector
background,
because
he
still
hasn't
figured
out
that
it's
not
what
you're
putting
into
the
system
it's
the
results
you're
getting
out
of
it.
C
The
the
public
of
British
Columbia
expect
results,
not
excuses,
not
a
bunch
of
numbers
that
mean
nothing
in
terms
of
improved
outcomes.
Favor
Krueger
is
a
nurse
who
was
diagnosed
with
skin
cancer
and
has
endured
an
grueling
eight
months,
going
from
one
wait
list
to
another
wait
list
and
is
now
stuck
in
limbo,
wondering
when,
if
ever
she'll
get
a
surgery
date,
we
have
now
gone
from
having
a
world
leading
Cancer
Care
system
that
now
having
some
of
the
worst
Cancer
Care
wait
times
in
the
country.
C
This
is
what
a
whistleblower
on
the
front
lines
of
Cancer
Care
in
our
Province
had
to
say
about
the
issue
and
I
quote
parent
patients
are
not
being
seen
within
time
frames.
We
are
in
a
crisis.
My
job
lately
has
just
been
rebooking
patients
weeks
to
months
out
and
having
them
crying,
yelling,
insulting
and
beating
us
down.
We
are
drowning.
People
are
dying
when
you
hear
the
news
and
they
say
it's
bad,
it's
worse
end
of
quote
so.
C
My
question
to
the
minister,
who
continues
to
try
and
tell
the
house
that
everything's,
actually
just
quite
great
regardless
of
what
whistleblowers
and
Frontline
staff
are
saying.
Patients
and
our
health
care
workers
have
actually
had
enough.
When
is
this
Minister
going
to
understand
that
empty
announcements,
repeating
a
bunch
of
data
and
failing
worsening
results,
is
not
the
outcomes
the
British
Columbia.
D
Minister
of
Health,
honorable
speaker,
I,
think
the
first
lung
cancer
screening
program
in
Canada
established
under
this
government
and
supported
by
our
teams
at
the
BC
cancer
agency.
That's
a
substantive
response.
Major
Investments
and
two
consecutive
budgets
with
more
doctors
and
more
oncologists,
is
a
substantive
response.
Taking
an
MRI
and
CT
and
diagnostic
system
that
had
declined,
including
under
the
time
when
the
leader
of
the
opposition
was
a
minister
of
health,
is
a
substantive
response.
D
D
D
Every
level
of
the
cancer
system,
given
the
Aging
of
our
population,
we
require
and
will
require
more
support
and
more
investment,
and
that
is
what
we
are
doing.
The
member
will
know,
because
he
was
minister
of
Health,
that
there
was
a
turnaround:
leadership
of
BC
cancer
for
10
years
under
their
government
honorable
speaker,
and
we
have
changed
that
we
have
an
outstanding
leader
at
BC
cancer.
A
Canadian
Doctor
Who
is
Led
on
these
issues.
Dr
Kim
Nguyen
Chi.
He
is
leading
our
10-year
cancer
plan
initiatives.
D
He
is
leading
our
efforts
to
add
staff,
and
yes,
of
course,
honorable
speaker,
of
course,
honorable
speaker,
there
are
challenges,
honorable
speaker,
but
the
way
you
respond
is
substantive
action,
not
personal
attack.
Honorable
speaker,
the
way
you
respond,
honorable
speaker
is
consistent,
substantive
action,
and
that
is
exactly
what
this
government
is
doing.
E
E
Dr
Christopher
applethwaite
is
not
only
seeing
people
with
undiagnosed
cancers
walk
into
an
emergency
room,
but
shockingly
he
says
that
patients
are
choosing
medically
assisted
death
because
inexcusably
long
waits
for
Cancer
Care,
not
my
words,
the
doctor
says
and
I
quote:
people
are
just
throwing
their
hands
up
going.
I
know
it's
bad
and
I,
don't
know
when
I'll
get
to
see
the
cancer
doctors
I'm
just
going
to
end
my
life
end
quote:
that's
what
the
minister
needs
to
hear
from
British
Columbians.
E
D
Minister
of
Health
well,
thank
you
honorable
speaker,
and
that
is
precisely
what
we
are
doing
taking
action
after
10
years
of
disruption
at
BC
cancer.
We
have
given
stability
and
resources
to
that
organization.
Honorable
speaker,
stability
and
resources,
resources
in
the
2021
budget
resources
in
the
2022
budget,
which
means
more
money
for
oncologists
and
a
dramatic
increase
in
our
screening
programs
and
our
MRI
and
our
diagnostic
programs
in
British
Columbia.
It
is
a
fact,
honorable
speaker,
the
people
in
Kelowna
have
access
to
pets,
T
scanning
in
their
Community
now
and
didn't
before.
D
It
is
a
fact,
honorable
speaker,
the
people
on
Vancouver
Island
have
the
same
and
the
minute
the
leader
of
the
opposition
can
dismiss
those
initiatives,
but
those
initiatives
did
not
take
place
under
the
previous
government
and
they
they
honorable
speaker,
need
to
be
accountable.
For
that.
Honorable
speaker,
we
will
continue
to
take
the
actions
required.
D
Honorable
speaker,
opposition
members,
I
I,
take
the
subject
both
personally
and
in
my
ministerial
responsibility
very
seriously,
and
surely
we
can
have
a
serious
discussion
about
it
in
the
house
on
this
particular
subject.
Without
the
usual
chatter,
from
the
opposition,
the
fact
of
the
matter
is
Honorable
speaker.
The
fact
of
the
honorable
matter
is
Honorable
speaker.
We
are
and
will
be,
making
unprecedented
investments
in
Cancer
Care
to
deliver
services
to
people
on
the
ground.
That
is
what
we
need
to
do
as
a
province
that
is
Our
obligation
as
a
Health
Care
system.
B
E
I,
don't
know
how
many
more
stories,
tragedies
that
are
happening
in
this
Health
Care
system-
that
it's
going
to
take
for
this
minister
to
acknowledge
that
he
has
actually
been
the
minister
for
two
terms
going
on
six
years
and
what
matters
is
outcomes
people
receive
in
our
Province
today
an
absolutely
devastating
diagnosis
of
cancer.
They
don't
get
the
basic
medical
support
that
they
deserve
and
they
sit
and
wait
in
fear.
E
E
We
all
know
the
longer
you
wait,
the
more
the
cancer
spreads
Dr
applethwaite
says
and
I
quote
I
think
it's
important
to
talk
about
what
patients
experience
the
uncertainty,
the
waiting
that
causes
the
most
suffering
by
far
for
people,
the
distress
is
palpable
end
quote
what
the
minister
needs
to
pay
attention
to
is
the
suffering
that
patients
are
experiencing.
It
is
unimaginable
that
this
doctor
says
that
in
BC
today
it
is
faster
and
easier
for
many
people
to
get
medical
assistance
in
dying
than
it
is
to
get
urgent,
Cancer
Care.
E
D
Minister
of
Health,
oh
thank
you
honorable
speaker,
urgent
action
is
always
required
with
respect
to
cancer
and
Urgent
action
is
more
effective
when
we
improve
screening
programs.
That's
why
we
established
a
lung
cancer
screening
program.
The
highest
mortality
is
from
lung
cancer,
frequently
in
the
past
across
jurisdictions.
For
all
kinds
of
reasons,
it
hasn't
been
a
priority
of
screening
programs.
D
We've
made
it
one
under
the
leadership
of
Dr
Kim
nuin
Chi
honorable
speaker
at
home,
cervix
screening
Pilots
are
underway
around
the
province
to
improve
that
aspect
of
screening,
BC
and
BC
with
respect
to
hereditary
cancer,
and
these
are
very
significant
questions
that
we
absolutely
take
action
and
take
seriously
honorable
speaker,
we've
seen
referrals
to
that
program.
The
hereditary
cancer
program
increased
honorable
speaker
and
that's
why.
In
2021-22
last
year
we
invested
substantial
funds,
2
million
and
25
250
000
dollars
to
eliminate
the
backlog
and
that
elimination
is
expected
to
be
complete
by
fall
2022..
D
It
requires
action
in
every
element
of
Cancer
Care,
strong
leadership,
not
inconsistent
leadership;
investment
in
research,
not
cutting
research,
adding
diagnostic
screening,
not
worst
in
Canada
in
diagnostic
screening.
Honorable
speaker,
those
are
the
results.
People
can
count
on
in
British,
Columbia.
F
Thank
you,
honorable
speaker.
We
we
hear
in
responses
about
health
care
over
and
over
about
the
inputs
going
in.
We
don't
hear
about
the
outcomes
that
we're
getting
on
the
ground.
F
Honorable
speaker,
progress
has
been
made
on
payments
to
family
doctors,
but
the
crises
in
healthcare
continue
in
the
ER
in
Port,
Hardy
has
had
closures
for
months.
A
senior
at
Victoria,
General
Hospital,
who
recently
had
a
stroke,
has
had
to
sleep
on
an
old
couch
in
the
hallway
he's
now
being
discharged,
even
though
he
was
told
only
days
before
that
he
needed
Rehabilitation
from
the
stroke.
Cancer
surgeries
are
being
delayed
time
and
again
leaving
people
to
get
sicker,
and
their
prognosis
worsens
to
quote
from
a
constituent
in
Saanich.
F
My
husband
has
another
three
weeks
to
wait
for
his
cancer
surgery.
We
have
waited
weeks
already,
I
see
how
a
tiny
melanoma
spot
on
his
head
doubled
in
size
within
a
week.
Hospitals
are
discharging
people,
they're,
delaying
essential
surgeries
and
their
past
their
breaking
point
on
top
of
it
they're
preparing
for
things
to
get
worse.
F
Yesterday,
BC
Children's
Hospital
wrote
a
memo
to
staff
stating
they
are
establishing
an
Emergency
Operations
Center,
anticipating
that
things
for
children
are
going
to
get
worse,
and
nothing
is
worse
for
a
parent
than
when
you
need
care
for
your
child,
and
it's
not
there.
My
question
honorable
speaker
is
to
the
minister
of
Health:
what
does
he
say
to
the
people
who
can't
get
care
for
themselves
for
their
elders
and
for
their
children
in
our
health
care?
System
right
now,.
D
Minister
of
Health,
thank
you
honorable
speaker
and,
yes,
we
are
preparing
for
this
fall
and
winter.
Yes,
in
a
global,
Health
Emergency
a
covid-19
pandemic,
we're
preparing
this
was
announced
and
laid
forward.
D
This
was
announced
and
presented
to
the
people
of
BC
two
months
ago
to
demonstrate
that
that
preparation
is
happening
to
prepare
every
health
care
facility
for
what
is
expected
to
be
because
of
what's
happened,
for
example
in
the
southern
hemisphere,
a
more
challenging
flu
and
covet
influenza
in
covid-19
season
in
our
hospitals.
So,
yes,
we're
preparing
in
every
Healthcare
facility
in
BC,
and
that
is
the
strength
of
Public
Health
Care
to
prepare
for
exactly
those
things.
So
every
health
authority
and
every
hospital
is
preparing
you
bet
they
are
and
I
think.
D
The
message
is,
in
addition
to
everything
else,
the
absolute
fundamental
importance
for
everybody
to
be
immunized
against
influenza
and
immunize
against
covid-19,
with
a
bivalent
booster.
This
fall,
which
will
assist
greatly
in
ensuring
those
numbers
were
lower,
but
it
will
also
assist
in
keeping
people
healthier
through
what
will
be
a
challenging
fall.
So
the
member
is
correct.
We
are
preparing
for
That
season,
as
everyone
would
expect.
F
Thank
you
honorable
speaker,
indeed,
pediatric
units
around
the
world
are
showing
signs
of
being
in
under
enormous
challenge.
The
Montreal's,
pediatric
unit
is,
is
being
described
like
a
horror
film
two
of
their
hospitals
hit
two
to
three
times
their
capacity
in
Ontario.
Adult
icus
are
accepting
teenagers
to
help
create
capacity
of
pediatric
units
here
at
BC,
Children's
Hospitals
surgeries
are
already
being
canceled
because
of
nurses
shortage.
F
The
memo
that
went
out
to
staff
yesterday
is
asking
health
care
workers
to
quote
show
up
in
a
different
way,
lean
in
where
emerging
needs
are
the
greatest
there's
been
a
chronic
shortage
of
nurses
in
hospitals.
Imagine
how
those
who
have
been
working
on
short
staffed
units
and
are
already
struggling
with
burnout,
feel
when
they're
asked
to
lean
in
even
more
instead
of
hearing
that
help
is
on
the
way.
F
D
Minister
of
Health,
well,
honorable
speaker,
first
of
all,
I
would
say
that,
because
of
the
extraordinary
work
of
our
surgeons
and
our
medical
device,
technicians
and
our
nurses
and
our
health
care
workers
and
our
Health
Sciences
professionals,
we
did
more
surgeries
in
September
than
ever
before
in
British
Columbia
in
a
pandemic.
Honorable
speaker,
I
would
say
that
of
course,
we're
preparing
for
the
conditions
of
the
fall.
Of
course
we
are.
D
That
is
our
duty
and
it's
our
responsibility,
and
it's
been
that
approach
led
by
our
Healthcare
teams
around
the
province
that
has
been
effective
in
previous
Falls.
It
will
be
a
challenge
and
we
are
responding
to
I
would
say
that
we've
added
604
nursing
spaces
this
year.
I
would
say
that
we've
changed.
We've
improved
Pathways
for
internationally
educated
nurses
to
work
in
BC
I,
say:
we've
taken
specific
action
to
address
issues
in
the
workplace
that
are
important
to
the
BC
nurses,
Union
and
the
hospital
employees
union.
Like
improved
security.
D
G
You
so
much
honorable
speaker
and
I.
Don't
know
what
the
minister
was
just
talking
about,
because
Kelowna
General
Hospital
sits
this
morning
at
137
occupancy
with
a
hundred
and
three
ALC
patients,
no
deviation
whatsoever.
So
I
don't
know
about
this
preparation
for
the
fall,
but
it
certainly
isn't
trickling
down
to
the
interior.
G
In
fact,
my
constituent
in
Kelowna
was
just
told
that
her
mother,
who
she
cares
for,
has
cancer
and
only
has
six
months
to
live,
but
when
she
went
to
get
an
appointment
for
her
mother
with
an
oncologist,
she
was
told
that
her
mom's
not
going
to
be
able
to
be
seen
for
three
months.
So
that
means
that
the
six
months
that
they've
got
left
with
her
mom
half
of
them
are
going
to
be
spent
sitting
on
a
chair
at
her
house
waiting
for
an
appointment.
G
She
says
and
I
quote:
I
have
called
I
have
begged
I
have
pleaded.
I
have
explained
the
situation
that
she
doesn't
have
long
and
I
can't
get
anything
done
until
we
get
into
the
Cancer.
Clinic
end
quote
how
many
more
families
will
have
to
suffer
through
the
last
days
of
their
lives,
because
they
are
stuck
on
a
cancer
wait
list
under
this
NDP
government
and
this
minister
of
Health.
D
Minister
of
Health,
honorable
speaker,
of
course,
and
I,
don't
speak
about
individual
cases,
but
when
members
want
to
bring
individual
cases
to
my
attention,
I
personally
look
into
them.
I
think
they
know
that
I
think
they
know
that
honorable
speaker
but
I
would
say
honorable
speaker
that
what
is
required
in
our
Cancer
Center
system
is
the
kind
of
Investments
we're
making
taking
away
a
centralized
system
and
ensuring
that
there
are
new
cancer
centers
in
different
parts
of
British
Columbia.
Honorable
speaker,
it's
why?
D
Has
this
we're
also
building
honorable
speaker,
a
new
cancer
center
I
would
hope
that
members
of
the
opposition
would
support
that
honorable
speaker
well,
the
leader
of
the
opposition,
as
always,
takes
these
matters
very
seriously,
but
I
think
that
I
think
honorable
speaker,
what
is
required
is
exactly
the
kind
of
investment
in
screening
and
support.
We're
provided
our
Health
Care
system
has
is,
and
has
been
in
the
midst
of
two
Public
Health
emergencies,
and
it
has
responded
honorable
speaker
with
resources
and
courage
that
are
second
to
none,
and
we
have
to
continue
to
do
that.
D
We
absolutely
engage
with
individual
patients
who
have
struggles
in
that
Health
Care
system
to
make
sure
they
get
the
care
they
need,
and
sometimes
let's
face
it.
That
can
be
a
challenge,
but
our
teams
are
working
with
people
everywhere
and
the
strong
investment
in
cancer
not
now,
but
in
the
last
number
of
years,
helps
in
that
regard
and
will
continue
to
help
honorable
speaker,
as
we
address
these
issues
over
the
next
10
years,
when
we
are
expecting
a
significant
increase
in
the
number
of
people
living
with
cancer
because
of
increases
in
our
population
over
75..
D
D
And
that
means
in
exactly
the
kind
of
investment
and
teamwork
that
went
into
our
agreement
with
doctors
this
week
exactly
the
kind
of
work
and
effort
that
went
into
our
working
with
the
bcnu
on
security
honorable
speaker
exactly
the
kind
of
investment
that
went
into
our
work
for
the
ATU
online.
We
need
to
continue
that
work.
Members.
B
A
You
you
Mr
Speaker.
Will
this
Minister
likes
numbers
so
much
I'll
give
some
numbers
here.
Hundreds
of
thousands
of
British
Columbians
are
stuck
on
wait
lists
for
medical
imaging.
One
of
the
reasons
for
this
backlog
is
the
critical
shortage
of
Medical
Imaging.
Technologists
BC
is
the
worst
in
the
country
when
it
comes
to
technologists
per
capita.
A
We
are
dead
last
under
this,
minister
of
health
statistics
show
that
BC
needs
to
hire
more
than
3
500
medical
radiation
techs
just
to
meet
the
national
average
in
the
second
term
of
government.
Why
is
this
Minister
failing
to
do
the
work
needed
to
recruit
and
retain
medical
technicians
in
this
province?.
D
Minister
of
Health,
honorable
speaker
with
great
respect
to
the
member.
It's
on
this
issue
of
Diagnostic
Imaging
across
the
board,
where
more
people
have
been
hired
than
almost
any
other
discipline
in
the
province.
Why,
honorable
speaker,
why
I
mean
the
facts
are
the
facts?
I
know,
member
members
of
the.
D
D
B
D
Honorable
speaker
and
now
honorable
speaker,
we've
more
than
doubled
that
for
people
in
the
North
Medical
Imaging
honorable
speaker,
MRIs,
CT
scans,
new
PET
CT
scanners
have
improved
dramatically
honorable
speaker
before
honorable
speaker
under
the
previous
government.
They
would
expect
people
to
go
to
a
private
clinic
and
pay
themselves
now,
honorable
speaker,
by
running
our
machine,
24
7,
they
do
it
in
the
public
health
care,
System.
H
Well,
thank
you
very
much.
Mr
Speaker,
the
BC
is
the
worst
in
the
country
when
it
comes
to
technologists
per
capita.
As
my
colleague
just
mentioned,
we
are
dead
last
under
this
health
minister,
so
when
he
sits
here-
and
he
talks
about
going
from
worst
to
best
to
best
to
worst
way,
he's
he's
completely
completely
disconnected
from
the
reality
of
What
patients
and
British
Columbians
are
facing.
H
But
I
want
to
I
want
to
move
to
it
to
a
to
a
different
Health
Care
issue:
Mr
Speaker
across
British
Columbia
parents,
are
increasingly
stressed
trying
to
deal
with
a
growing
shortage
of
children's
pain,
medication
like
Tylenol
and
Advil.
The
problem
is
hurting
parents
like
Amber
from
Victoria,
who
says
and
I
quote
I'm
a
single
mom
that
doesn't
drive
and
I
cannot
force
my
three
kids
out
of
the
house
to
search
high
and
low
for
Tylenol
when
they're
sick
end
quote
just
yesterday.
H
The
Prime
Minister
said
that
the
provinces
should
be
taking
action,
but
we've
heard
nothing
from
the
BC
Health
Minister
about
actions
that
are
being
taken
here
to
secure
a
supply
of
children's
pain,
medication
as
more
and
more
kids
get
sick.
This
fall
parents
are
stuck
watching
their
kids
in
pain
while
being
unable
to
find
the
medicines
that
they
need
to
give
to
their
children.
So
a
simple
question
to
the
minister
of
Health:
what
is
he
doing
to
ensure
that
parents
have
access
to
the
critical
pain
medication
that
their
kids
need
as
they
get
sick?
D
Of
Health
well,
thank
you,
honorable
speaker
and,
of
course,
honorable
speaker.
Some
of
these
issues
are
issues
everywhere
in
the
world
or
issues
throughout
the
United
States.
There
are
issues
throughout
Canada
and
in
all
jurisdictions
in
Canada
Health
authorities,
especially
our
teams
dealing
with
children
around
the
province,
are
taking
steps,
of
course,
to
provide
Supply.
But
some
of
this
is
about
private
sector
Supply
chains,
and
so
there
is
a
significant
role
for
the
federal
government.
D
I
have
not
heard
before
the
contribution
of
the
Prime
Minister
to
this
discussion,
but
I
can
tell
you-
and
this
is
an
issue
in
the
past
number
of
weeks,
I've
discussed
with
his
health
Minister
and
one
that
all
jurisdictions
have
to
work
together,
but
also
honorable
speaker,
the
providers
and
the
manufacturers
of
the
very
medication
in
question
have
to
work
together
on
to
improve
I
agree
with
the
honorable
member.
It
is
absolutely
a
priority
for
for
parents
and
all
those
in
the
system.
D
Some
of
these
are
issues
in
terms
of
Supply
that
we
have
worked
on
in
other
issues
and
he
is
well
aware
because
it
affected
his
writing.
We
have
consistently
worked
during
the
pandemic
when
there
have
been
shortages
to
get
care
and
medication
to
the
people
who
need
it.
But
this
is
an
international
problem.
Honorable
speaker
in
terms
of
supply
and
one
that
we
have
to
do
everything
we
can.