“The other party started this program. It did not work out. Now we cancelled it. We are bringing a new plan to spend money on. This will fix everything.”
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Health
A bill aiming to ensure health information technology is interoperable, secure, and person-centered, and to prohibit data blocking by health IT vendors. During discussion, the Conservatives criticized the Liberals for wasting nearly $300 million on a national prescribing software project that failed, while the Liberals defended the project as having been introduced under the previous government at the request of provinces and territories, and said that lessons were learned from its failure.
“PrescribeIT was tried before and didn't work. But I won't address the cost or what went wrong. I just want to talk about a new bill that spends more of your money on vaguely related things.”