May 27, 2008 (Queen?s Park) Peter Shurman, MPP for Thornhill, wants to know how sex change operations found their way to the top of the priority list for OHIP funding while MPPs were in their ridings for ?Constituency Week?.
?This is the same Liberal government that stopped funding for eye exams, physiotherapy and chiropractic care, and the same Premier who in 2004 said funding for sex change surgery was not a priority,? Shurman said.
In a statement to the Ontario Legislature yesterday, Shurman said that Health Minister George Smitherman surprised even his own Liberal caucus colleagues when he announced that taxpayer money will fund sex change surgery.
?The people of this province deserve an explanation of exactly how sex change surgery rose to the top of the health care priority list. Who made this decision and why?? Shurman asked.
For further information contact:
Monika Bujalska
Executive Assistant to Peter Shurman, MPP
647-293-7918
monika.bujalska@pc.ola.org
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