Singh: Public health care is ours—and we’re not giving it up

EDMONTON — Today, Jagmeet Singh stood alongside frontline workers to deliver a clear message: Canada’s public health-care system is not for sale—not to Trump, not to profiteers, not now, not ever.

“Donald Trump has made it clear he’s willing to use trade pressure to advance the interests of U.S. corporations—including in areas like health care,” said Singh. “Canadians believe in care over profit, and we’ll always stand up to protect our public health-care system.”

While Canadians want real improvements in public health care, Pierre Poilievre has met privately with U.S. hospital CEOs and backs expanding for-profit care—opening the door to two-tier, American-style health care. And the Liberals have looked the other way as provinces like Alberta and Ontario have expanded private care and made wait times worse.

Because of Jagmeet Singh’s leadership, the NDP forced the biggest expansion of Medicare in a generation—delivering dental care to millions and securing the first real steps toward universal pharmacare. We took on powerful interests and won. This is what it means to fight for people, not profits—to protect what matters most, and build a health-care system Canadians can be proud of.

Now, Jagmeet Singh and the NDP are laying out a plan to stop U.S.-style privatization in its tracks and protect public health care from Trump’s trade agenda. The NDP will:

• Ban American corporations from buying Canadian health care facilities.
• Strengthen and enforce the Canada Health Act—no more Cash-for-Care clinics that charge you for basic care.
• Block Trump-style trade deals from putting Canadian health care on the negotiating table.
• Make full enforcement of public healthcare standards a condition of federal health funding.
• Go after provinces—like Danielle Smith’s Alberta—that violate the Canada Health Act to privatize care.

“Health care in Canada was never meant to be a business deal—it’s a promise we make to each other. New Democrats are here to defend that promise from Donald Trump’s trade agenda and the corporate greed trying to cash in on Canadians”.