B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad says he has no plan for user-pay health care in British Columbia, after the rival NDP released a recording of him calling the Canada Health Act 91裸聊视频渟illy91裸聊视频� for not allowing such a system.

Rustad told a news conference in Nanaimo, B.C., that the NDP91裸聊视频檚 claim was 91裸聊视频渏ust another lie.91裸聊视频�

91裸聊视频淲e have never said that is what we91裸聊视频檙e going to be doing,91裸聊视频� Rustad said. 91裸聊视频淭hat would be contrary to the Canadian health act. We have not talked about that one little iota.91裸聊视频�

NDP Leader David Eby had earlier said Rustad was planning an 91裸聊视频淎merican style91裸聊视频� user-pay model, saying he would let people 91裸聊视频渂uy their way to the front of the line.91裸聊视频�

In the recording of an event that the NDP said happened in August, Rustad can be heard criticizing the Canada Health Act for not allowing a user-pay model and saying that 91裸聊视频渉opefully, one day we91裸聊视频檒l get some changes there.91裸聊视频�

Eby continued his focus on the Rustad health-care recording at an evening campaign event in the Victoria-Beacon Hill riding, where NDP incumbent Grace Lore is facing a challenge from Green Leader Sonia Fustenau.

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Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, the president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, said voters in B.C. should be concerned about Rustad91裸聊视频檚 agenda, especially when it comes to privatization of health care, education and forestry.

91裸聊视频淛ohn Rustad is the fifth horseman of the apocalypse and he carries the name of privatization,91裸聊视频� he said.

In religious teachings, the fifth horseman is invisible and has the power to disrupt weather, extend deserts, set fire to forests, cause floods and storms, melt ice caps and raise sea levels to disastrous levels.

Phillip said he was in Victoria to support Lore, who has been a champion for children and family rights, especially for Indigenous people.

91裸聊视频淲e need her,91裸聊视频� he said, acknowledging the political battle she faces to hold onto her seat against rival Furstenau.

91裸聊视频淎 vote for the Greens is a vote for Rustad,91裸聊视频� Phillip said.

Earlier, in Nanaimo, Eby said that Rustad presented a risk to the health-care system at a time when the province had a shortage of health-care workers.

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Rustad released his party91裸聊视频檚 costings on Tuesday for a platform that makes no mention of a user-pay health-care model and instead promises a single-payer system delivering care through public and non-governmental facilities.

He said Wednesday that the system proposed by the B.C. Conservatives was based on European models where the government remains the only payer for health care.

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Rustad was in Nanaimo to announce a plan to expand the local hospital, including the construction of a new patient tower and the installation of a catheterization lab for heart-disease patients.