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Petition
Presented November 27, 2008
Long-term Care Facility for the Conception Bay North
Area
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MR. SPEAKER: The
hon. the Member for Port de Grave.
MR. BUTLER:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
I feel like today saying
I am putting a motion forward to build a long-term care
facility for Conception Bay North, but I do not hold
that position, Mr. Speaker.
I just want to present
another petition. I was pleased today to hear the
minister talk about the investments in health care. I
can assure you, Mr. Speaker, any investments in health
care is greatly appreciated and we fully agree with
that, but it is little consolation to the people of
Conception Bay North who have been promised a long-term
care facility going back to 2001, confirmed again and
reconfirmed in 2007.
I noticed yesterday the
Minister of Health and the Minister of Finance and
President of Treasury Board were sizing up the petition
saying that there were only three or four names on them,
is that all the names you can come up with. I am going
to tell you, when I hear the announcement being made
that this is going to be reconsidered and one of the two
facilities for St. John’s will probably turn out to be
one for Conception Bay North, I will present every
petition the one day, I can assure you, Mr. Speaker.
I call upon my hon.
colleagues opposite, three Ministers of the Crown, that
they will ask government to reconsider this decision. I
know the Minister of Finance and President of Treasury
Board is over going on, he can stand. He will see
petitions with constituents from his own district who
are asking for the same thing. He need not think they
are all coming from Shearstown and the Bay Roberts and
Port de Grave area. He will see them –
MR. KENNEDY: (Inaudible)
Carbonear.
MR. BUTLER: Carbonear.
They are coming from Carbonear, I say to the hon.
member.
All I am asking is the
hon. minister and his colleagues to stand behind their
constituents. This is not something that we are just
pulling out of the air. This is something that has been
promised to the people, and if government can come out
and say we are going to build two new facilities for St.
John’s, surely they can say one of those is going to
be for Conception Bay North area.
Mr. Speaker, I will be
standing each and every day the House is open, until
eternity, until someone makes an announcement and
corrects this injustice that has been done to the people
of Conception Bay North.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. |
