Thread by @journo_dale

Horgan blaming the federal government for collapsing healthcare when it’s literally his jurisdiction is a choice.
He can raise his own taxes to spend it on healthcare. It’s 100 percent in his powers and capabilities. #PnPCBC

Horgan now cites the false 22 percent figure, and immediately says “we don’t want to quibble about the money.”
You don’t want to quibble, you just want to present a false narrative. #PnPCBC

Horgan says it’s the federal government who’s being disingenuous.
Irony died. #PnPCBC

Doug Ford is whining about surgical backlogs, when the federal government just transferred $2 billion to the provinces for exactly that. #PnPCBC

Horgan keeps going back to the pandemic straining healthcare, as though the premiers haven’t made public health decisions that have strained the system to the breaking point. #PnPCBC

Ford is complaining that he needs 378K immigrants.
Where does he propose that they live? Ontario is more than a million homes short, because premiers won’t take a firmer hand on the file. #PnPCBC

Furey: “No one wants to see a system that worsens.”
Right, but how many provinces want the federal government to pay for it so that they don’t have to. That’s the issue.

The utter sanctimony. #PnPCBC

Tim Houston appears to be pretending that 2004 to 2014 didn’t happen where provinces spent the bulk of increased federal health transfers on other things.
The figures are all out in the open. #PnPCBC

Doug Ford worries about the “burnt-out nurse,” as though he didn’t cut her pay and hasn’t restored it. #PnPCBC

“Yes there was some federal support,” Moe concedes.
Between eight and nine of every ten pandemic dollars came from the federal government. It was more than “some dollars.” #PnPCBC

Watching premiers pretend like they didn’t cause their healthcare systems to collapse or create their own health human resources crisis, and then demanding the feds step in and fix it is quite something. This is all on them, even if they pretend it’s not. looniepolitics.com/premiers-want-…