{"id":8419,"date":"2017-12-01T08:12:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T13:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=8419"},"modified":"2017-12-01T06:27:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T11:27:11","slug":"statement-from-ontario-pc-mpp-lisa-macleod-on-the-ministers-dismissal-of-her-question-on-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/01\/statement-from-ontario-pc-mpp-lisa-macleod-on-the-ministers-dismissal-of-her-question-on-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Ontario PC MPP Lisa MacLeod on the Minister\u2019s dismissal of her question on mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Dec 1, 2017 @ 08:12<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis morning (November 30), I asked a very serious question about mental health. I asked the government if they would match the Ontario PC\u2019s commitment to invest $1.9 billion into mental health care. The Minister of Health responded by making a joke about how a bank from 1893 in Kansas City, Missouri shared the name of our platform.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who has been very public about my own challenges with mental health, I was appalled by how the Minister of Health responded. It was dismissive. It was insulting. Not only to myself, but to the countless others who are struggling with mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, when the Ontario PCs unveiled our five priorities in the People\u2019s Guarantee, I sat in the front-row and wept openly as our Leader Patrick Brown spoke about mental health. I was comforted by two of my colleagues, Todd Smith and Sam Oosterhoff, who sat with me until I regained my composure.<\/p>\n<p>This is an issue that I am very passionate about, and I expected better from our Health Minister.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to see the Minister of Health apologize to everyone suffering in silence across Ontario with mental illness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 1, 2017 @ 08:12 \u201cThis morning (November 30), I asked a very serious question about mental health. I asked the government if they would match the Ontario PC\u2019s commitment to invest $1.9 billion into mental health care. The Minister of Health responded by making a joke about how a bank from 1893 in Kansas &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[388],"class_list":["post-8419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-mental-health"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 04:03:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8420,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419\/revisions\/8420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}