Manitoba NDP government, PCs finger-pointing over health-care worker recruitment program – Winnipeg [Video]

The Manitoba NDP government and the opposition Progressive Conservatives are pointing the finger at each other over the recruitment of nurses from overseas.

In 2023, the previous PC government promised to recruit 300 health-care workers from the Philippines to help bolster staffing in the province’s struggling health-care system.

During question period Wednesday, Progressive Conservative health critic Kathleen Cook said the NDP government is blocking nurses from coming to the province.

“They were willing to do whatever it took to come to Manitoba and work here. Still, they were denied because the NDP is putting politics ahead of the need of patients,” Cook said during question period.

“Why would the NDP slam the door on these healthcare workers? Is it because they consider them to be the wrong kind of immigrant?”

In July, the previous PC government announced 300 health-care workers in the Philippines had accepted job offers in Manitoba. Now, …