Conservative MPs are criticizing a social media post from Immigration Canada that encourages people to come to Canada for its health-care system.
“Thinking about moving to Canada? Did you know Canada has public health care? Learn how it works, who can get it and what services are covered,” the Oct. 13 post on X and Facebook reads.
The post links to the website of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and provides resources on accessing universal public health care, understanding the types of health insurance, and finding a doctor or dentist.
Conservative MP Dan Mazier, who serves as his party’s shadow minister for health, took to social media on Oct. 14 to say the IRCC was advertising Canada’s “free health care” to the world at a time when 6.5 million Canadians don’t have access to a family doctor and patients are “dying waiting for care.”…