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Marjorie Michel

Liberal on Health

Replying to Dan Mazier (Conservative)
“Mr. Speaker, $300 million spent on PrescribeIT is making ArriveCAN look like pocket change. The Liberals paid Canada Health Infoway to design the program, which then paid Telus Health to develop the program, which then may have outsourced the work offshore. The CEO of Canada Health Infoway could not even tell the health committee how much the government paid him for this failure, claiming he did not know his own salary. Canadians got nothing from PrescribeIT. The $300-million question is, who got rich?”

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Mr. Speaker, as my colleagues are well aware, the program was put in place in the provinces and territories, so the money has been spent. However, doctors did not use the program enough for us to continue, so we ended it.