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Manitoba 2023 provincial election

Responses from the Electoral Candidates
Responses are arranged according to the date we received them. The first response received in each party appears at the top of that section.

Manitoba New Democratic Party Party individual candidate responses
Jim Maloway – Elmwood Candidate
Andy Maxwell – Swan River Candidate
Date: Monday, September 18, 2023 at 1:52
Subject: Re: Arthritis Consumer Experts Survey for Manitoba Election
From: Elmwood NDP

Response

Hi Ms. Koehn,

Just a brief note to acknowledge your email concerning the Arthritis Consumer Experts (ACE) Survey.

Please be assured your correspondence will be brought to Mr. Maloway’s attention.

Thank you.

Randy Schulz
Campaign Manager

Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 9:05 PM PDT
Subject: Re: Arthritis Consumer Experts Survey for Manitoba Election
From: Swan River NDP

Response

Hello Cheryl.

My sincerest apologies for not responding sooner but I ran into issues at MB NDP getting the email account opened and then the password.

By now you have had the rote NDP official responses many times, so I won’t bore you with that. I had both hips replaced in 2021 at the height of Covid. Manitoba Health did not help beyond getting me on the waiting list. I would still be in a wheelchair if I played their game. I paid privately to get both operations done in weeks with Clearpoint Health in Calgary - excellent outcomes but at twice the price ($28,000 each) instead of about $14,000 each under Manitoba Health. I in effect paid triple the cost to get what was a covered service. I am not in favour of privatizing healthcare; I am fully in favour of getting MB Health up to standard. Transfer payments from Ottawa have doubled since 2016 when the PCs got in and now total $5.881 Billion, more than a quarter of the Manitoba budget, which is still not balanced because of otherwise unfunded tax cuts. The money was there. Creeping privatization will put more and more services out of the reach of Manitobans.

Wab Kinew is our best bet to try to fix healthcare, reduce poverty and eliminate homelessness to the long term benefit of us all - keeping us healthier longer with timely access to care when we need it.

The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing expecting a different result, like expecting a happy ending to a movie if you watch it enough times; voting Conservatives in for a third consecutive term falls into that category.

Yours sincerely,

Andy Maxwell
NDP Candidate Swan River