Left to right: Paul Rosebush (President & CEO, South Bruce Grey Health Centre), Patrick Brown (Leader, Progressive Conservative Party of
Ontario), Lisa Thompson (Huron-Bruce MPP), Allen Wickert (Board chair,
South Bruce Grey Health Centre), Anne Eadie (Mayor of Kincardine) 
Photo by Jordan McKinnonLeft to right: Paul Rosebush (President & CEO, South Bruce Grey Health Centre), Patrick Brown (Leader, Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario), Lisa Thompson (Huron-Bruce MPP), Allen Wickert (Board chair, South Bruce Grey Health Centre), Anne Eadie (Mayor of Kincardine) Photo by Jordan McKinnon
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Provincial PC Leader Tours Kincardine Hospital

The leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario is challenging the Ministry of Health to address the need to rebuild the Kincardine hospital.

Patrick Brown toured the hospital Monday with Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson, calling out the governing Liberals for breaking a promise to the residents of Kincardine when it cancelled the first phase of a $100-million new hospital build in 2012.

Brown says Thompson has been vocal at Queens Park regarding the hospital, adding it's an issue the entire party will keep at the forefront.

"This is a promise that hasn't been honoured and [the Liberals] should honour it. It's a job of the opposition to hold the government to account where they're failing the province of Ontario, where they're failing the residents and we're going to hold them to account on how they have handled the funding of this hospital," says Brown.

Following the cancellation of the new hospital plans, the South Bruce Grey Health Centre board of directors submitted a proposal to renovate the existing hospital and Brown says the province should at least follow through and fund the renovation if it can't come up with the funds needed for a new build.

Brown adds the saga of the Kincardine hospital feels to him like a case of rural Ontario being punished for defeating Liberal MPP's.

"We feel that this is a Liberal government that is penalizing rural Ontario. The fact that the phase-one expansion was promised in 2011 and not acted upon speaks to the fact that there's likely partisan considerations afoot and that's not appropriate," says Brown.

 

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