Alberta’s Jason Kenney Wants to Import American-Style Health Care to Canada
Alberta’s United Conservative Party is using the health care crisis caused by the pandemic to its ideological advantage. Citing backlogs in surgeries — resulting from overrun hospitals — the party is seeking to privatize the province’s health care system.
Alberta premier Jason Kenney signaled his aim to privatize the province’s health care by handing out public funds to for-profit companies. (Chris Schwarz / Government of Alberta)
A week ago, in an exclusive interview with the far-right Western Standard, Alberta premier Jason Kenney signaled his aim to privatize the province’s health care by handing out public funds to for-profit companies. The aim of these moves, Kenney announced, was to transfer as many procedures as possible from “union-run hospitals.”
The Premier openly boasted of leveraging the stresses that the pandemic has put on Alberta’s health care system in order to impose his privatization agenda.
Because of all of the COVID controversy, a lot of the bold conservative reforms of this government have not been recognized. For example, we passed a law through the Legislature to massively expand privately owned and operated surgical hospitals to help us get faster and more efficient health care for Albertans.
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