"In light of our deteriorating financial situation, would the Premier tell the people of our Province, will there be any more cuts to health care services or additional layoffs beyond what has already been announced?"-November 22, 2002"Mr. Speaker, could the Premier explain to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador how he expects to get a blank cheque from Ottawa, when his minister and senior officials in this Province acknowledge that there is no strategic plan? That is just not good business practice and it certainly is not good government, Mr. Speaker."-December 11, 2001"Mr. Premier, in your own words, now they are not cutbacks they are rearrangements. Is the fact that next year you are going to cut out and close one of the operating rooms at the Janeway during the summer months, the most dangerous period of the year, is that a rearrangement or is that, in fact, a cutback?
Mr. Speaker, in line with normal closures, would the Premier tell me if there are going to be no further cutbacks or reductions in services why it is proposed that the new Roddickton hospital will close from midnight until 8 o’clock the following morning? Is that a normal cutback?
Mr. Speaker, I would ask the Premier: Yesterday he indicated to this House that there was a dialysis machine in operation in St. Anthony.
That was a dialysis machine that, I understand, was promised while he was Minister of Health. If there are no cutbacks, why has that dialysis machine in St. Anthony been deferred indefinitely?
Mr. Speaker, I would ask the Premier a very direct question: Can the people of this Province expect further cutbacks in health care services in the future?"-December 12, 2001"It appears that their priorities are not health care and education, but ad campaigns seem to be a big priority for the government."-December 17, 2002
And of course...
"You're the captain of cuts",- to Premier Roger Grimes, in a televised leaders debate, October 7, 2003
The captain of cuts?
Not any more. Not any more.
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