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Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak is putting a motion forward for the province to get started on a new hospital in South Niagara.
Last year the Liberals appointed Kevin Smith to study health care in Niagara. He recommended the government go ahead with plans for a new site.
Hudak wants to know what the hold up is. He wants to force a vote because the report has been left to sit for 14 months.
“We are bringing forward a bill today a motion in the house that basically says to the Liberals and the NDP it’s put up or shut up time. Are they going to back this project that Southern Niagarans like, or are we going to kick this down the road and weaken health the Niagara Peninsula?”
“I am tired of the other two partiies playing games with this, it’s an important project to me it impacts my family, my friends, the communities I grew up in. It’s personal. I am going to fight for it .”
Ontario health minister Deb Matthews says the government is moving forward and will be announcing more details in the next few weeks. In response to Hudak, she says his change in attitude can only be explained as byelection posturing, and it wasn’t long ago that he was not a supporter of the new hospital project.
