First look at Conservative platform on health (30 pgs in...). Overall impression. Platform documents are rushed, I get it. Especially with a snap election. But if you knew this was going to be fought on healthcare, and that's where you're weak, you should have put more time into that part of it. If anyone is looking for any guarantees about public care or answers on how they would deliver care in general, they won't find them in this platform document. In terms of useful promises about access to care, or even showing they really understand what's going on, this is every bit as bad as what the NDP has put out. There are some smart people in the Conservative party who know what the issues are and how to deliver things, and it's pretty clear they didn't have a say in this document. Bottom line. There's little substance here. They don't expect anyone to read this. They can tick off the box saying "we have a costed platform" and move on. Everyone can now go back to their yelling mindless talking points at each other and not listening to what anyone says. A few details that jumped out... - "universal health care guarantee" ... will pay alternate provider (i.e. private) for surgeries (only) > benchmark waits. About as useful as Eby's "public health" guarantee (which doesn't guarantee access to public health either). - "100 day review" - identify reforms from other universal systems... you could ask people here. or more importantly, you should have already - fix HPOA (no details, but thanks for mentioning) - "defend universal public health care" and "improve" ... but zero actual statements on allowing private care or not, where, etc. - "proven technology to reduce admin" .. good. somehow "public clear information about access and outcomes" showed up here which I fully support. But details? Ok, given the timeline, I get it. But after being basically given a roadmap to deal with this and you still don't bother? Come on. - ER's ... stop gap funding, no understanding of real problems, no - mental health... good for review of MHA, but the details on this make no sense. and "improving access to mental health care" is another promise with nothing backing it up. - the money parts of this aren't convincing - none of the previous anti-vax garbage they've spouted is here, thankfully, and they've committed to paying for shingles vaccine