Quebec election: CAQ proposes two private medical centres to ease hospital strain
MONTREAL — The Coalition Avenir Québec promised Saturday to build a pair of private medical centres that would provide services that would be free to Quebecers and reimbursed by medicare in an attempt to ease overflowing public emergency rooms.
CAQ Leader François Legault made the announcement on Day 7 of the Quebec election campaign in the eastern Montreal riding of Anjou-Louis-Riel, a region where the party is hoping to increase its presence on the Island of Montreal where it currently only holds two seats.
Legault said the first two clinics would be up and running by 2025 in Montreal’s east-end and Quebec City, with plans to eventually build up to a dozen in the province.
“If we want to change the health network, well, we have to change the recipe, we have to innovate,” Legault said.