Canadians value their publicly-funded, universally-accessible health care system. Unfortunately, the previous Liberal government cut health care funding while patient wait times almost doubled. Conservatives have made historic increases in health funding and patient wait times are finally getting shorter.

Since coming to office our government has signed Patient Wait Time Guarantee agreements with all the provinces and territories. We have implemented the 10-year $41.3 billion Federal/Provincial Plan to Strengthen Health Care, provided $612 million in new funding to help provinces reduce patient wait times, established the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer with $260 million in funding to implement a national cancer strategy, increased funding for new training spaces to address the shortage of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals, and invested $400 million in the Canada Health Infoway to develop electronic health records and reduce medical errors.

These are just of the few steps that our government has already taken to ensure Canadians have the best health care possible.