Eby, Rustad on Vancouver Island on final day of advance voting [Video]

B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad says he has no plan for user-pay health care in British Columbia, after the rival NDP released a recording of him calling the Canada Health Act “silly” for not allowing such a system.

Rustad told a news conference in Nanaimo, B.C., that the NDP’s claim was “just another lie.”

“We have never said that is what we’re going to be doing,” Rustad said. “That would be contrary to the Canadian health act. We have not talked about that one little iota.”

NDP Leader David Eby had earlier said Rustad was planning an “American style” user-pay model, saying he would let people “buy their way to the front of the line.”

In the recording of an event that the NDP said happened in August, Rustad can be heard criticizing the Canada Health Act for not allowing a user-pay model and saying that “hopefully, one day we’ll …