The NDP is promising a $250-million fund to help train and hire 2,000 nurses across the country.
Jagmeet Singh made the announcement Thursday in Alberta — a province that has faced recent health care cuts.
“For years and years, federal governments have been cutting health care as well. The Conservatives cut health care, and then Trudeau kept in those same cuts,” Singh told reporters.
“These are the workers that we trust our lives with and they simply don’t have the resources to do their job because governments are cutting the care they need. It does not have to be this way.”
Singh said the NDP would ensure that provinces also commit funding specifically for health care workers.
He was asked by a reporter how the party would do that since health care is a provincial responsibility.
“We wanted to be really clear that if a province wants to invest in health care, we will be there,” said Singh. “If a province wants to invest more for front-line health care workers, we will be partners and work together with provinces and territories to deliver that.”
Singh said this election is a choice between continued cuts or stronger health care.
Voters will cast their ballots on Sept. 20.
