Mr. Speaker, today I had the privilege to join with the National Union of Public and General Employees Women's Committee in their call upon the federal government to invest in women's health care initiatives, in particular, funding a Women's health research institute.
In its recent announcements to provide $60 million this year for the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and $500 million next year, the government ignored the majority of users of the system and 52% of Canada's population by not earmarking a single dollar for women's health research.
Lost in the rhetoric and television ads has been the real health concerns of women. Access to timely, quality health care for women is at an all time low while the provincial and federal governments play politics.
The money is there. The time to act is now to improve women's health care, and Canadian women demand it.