Legault says his social gathering is the one one to deal with the world, which he stated was uncared for for many years.
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The Coalition Avenir Québec envisions opening one-stop store medical centres all through the province — owned and operated by the personal sector — however paid by the general public purse.
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CAQ Chief François Legault made the announcement in considerably hostile territory Saturday as his marketing campaign dipped a toe on the island of Montreal, the place his social gathering holds solely two seats.
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Regardless of that, the east finish of the town can be the primary space to get a mini hospital, in addition to the Limoilou space of Quebec Metropolis.
Talking with reporters on the Bibliothèque Jean-Corbeil in Anjou, Legault outlined his social gathering’s plan to enhance entry to household drugs exterior of hospitals by opening household drugs centres, known as Groupes de médecine familiales (GMFs). Standing alongside Legault, outgoing Well being Minister Christian Dubé dubbed the centres “mini hospitals” and defined they’d be privately owned and constructed, however publicly funded, so they’d be free for the final inhabitants, paid for with the RAMQ card.
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The household drugs centres, estimated to value $35 million every to construct, can be open seven days per week from 8 a.m. to eight p.m., they’d supply emergency medical companies 24 hours per day for minor circumstances, and they’d have day surgical procedure centres. They’d additionally home pharmacies, check centres and radiology labs.
The 2 first centres can be constructed by 2025, and are anticipated to take a few of the slack from overburdened hospitals.
Dubé stated the end result will probably be higher affected person care, and aid for the hospital community. He stated the japanese a part of the island was chosen as a result of the present well being companies are inadequate, leading to an overcrowded Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital. He added it may permit hospitals to cut back the ready lists for surgical procedures
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“There’s a complete snowball impact to all of this,” he stated. “The quicker we settle minor circumstances, the faster we will let the surgeons within the massive hospitals to do surgical procedures and whittle down the ready checklist.”
With two elected members on the island of Montreal and one in Laval, Legault stated it’s time for the metropolis to elect extra CAQ MNAs.
“Individuals in Montreal and Laval have been taken without any consideration for too lengthy,” he stated. “I believe it’s about time that we give attention to the east of Montreal. We have to have nearly as good companies because the West Island, so I believe it’s time to see extra CAQ MNAs.”
Legault stated Chantal Rouleau, the MNA for Pointe-aux-Trembles, has effectively represented her using. As junior transport minister, she oversaw the start of labor to lengthen the métro’s Blue Line by 5.5 kilometres to Anjou.
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The CAQ authorities additionally spearheaded a venture to construct an above-ground light-rail community within the east finish, dubbed the REM de l’Est. The venture, nevertheless, was shelved due to complaints about its inflated value estimate (practically $10 billion) and its potential to scar the town’s city panorama with overhead concrete rail buildings.
Legault is aware of he has angered some minority teams, particularly within the Montreal area with the introductions of the language regulation, Invoice 96, and the regulation in opposition to non secular clothes, Invoice 21, however hopes they’ll vote for his social gathering anyway.
“I believe these persons are pleased with what we did with the financial system, well being care and schooling,” Legault stated. “Some individuals nonetheless would like to have a bilingual province of Quebec or metropolis of Montreal. I wish to specific to them that French will at all times be weak in Montreal and Quebec due to the presence of 300 million anglophones in North America, so please don’t take solely into consideration the language points. I believe it’s vital for anglophones, for allophones, for everyone to take the most effective social gathering for the financial system, schooling, well being care and the setting. So I believe language should not be the one concern.”
Later within the day, Legault visited social gathering militants within the Vaudreuil—Dorion space earlier than visiting a farm in Sherrington and a winery in Coteau-du-Lac earlier than wrapping the day up in Longueuil.
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