Executive Director of Friends of Medicare, Chris Gallaway, speaks with Alberta Primetime host Michael Higgins about the need for increased health care funding.
This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Michael Higgins: Let’s start on the big dollars for education infrastructure. How much hope does this give you where heightened investment in health care is concerned?
Chris Gallaway: There’s no doubt we need investment in education and health care for a booming population, that’s been true for many years.
So watching the Premier’s address where she announced this is actually quite frustrating because she spent half of her time looking for others to blame for what’s happening rather than taking responsibility for her own government’s record and decisions in terms of public services.
The premier blamed the prime minister and the carbon tax and school boards and municipalities and that very unfortunate rant about immigration, rather than owning her own government’s decisions.
Those decisions were to not build infrastructure, to cancel …