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MILOBAR -- The path to a better public healthcare system doesn’t start somewhere in the distant future


Healthcare in British Columbia is a mess. You’ve heard the stories … they’re more like nightmares. 

Emergency rooms shuttering ... loved ones on wait-lists, sometimes with no appointment date in sight ... friends and family members denied critical treatment ... a senior, maybe your mother or father, forced to lay in a bed in a hallway. 

Or… God forbid… you or your partner are fearing the worst while managing a complication with a pregnancy.

As a son, a husband, a father (and a grandfather to four girls) the struggles women face in our healthcare system keep me up at night. I know these are more than worries to you too. They’re nightmares, and they keep me up at night.

It’s not just unsustainable, it’s downright wrong, and taxpayers deserve better.

For over 20 years, I’ve been listening carefully to patients, front-line workers, and administrators. And I’ve been advocating for better delivery of health care services. I know what it’s like to make difficult decisions where thousands of lives are literally on the line. 

Under the NDP, British Columbians have seen more spending, more hiring, more promises… but delivered nothing but failure.

Healthcare in BC is broken. It’s up to the next leader of the BC Conservative Party to fix it. I’m running for leader because I have a plan to triage our crumbling healthcare system nightmare issue by issue.

As Premier of BC, I’ll make these decisions day one.

➤ Partner with the private sector to deliver long-term care beds to free up critical spaces and provide immediate relief to our hospitals under strain.

➤ Work with medical associations to implement an emergency framework that recognizes world-class medical credentials to put more doctors to work and STOP ER closures.

➤ Reassign nurses away from administrative roles and into frontline healthcare positions, reducing bureaucracy and increasing service for British Columbians.

➤ Safeguard the future of families by emphasizing maternal health, protecting women and babies – the lifeblood of our province’s future.

The path to a better public healthcare system doesn’t start somewhere in the distant future, like the NDP promises want us to believe. 

Solutions, not more empty NDP promises, are what will ensure that emergency rooms and operating rooms are working for British Columbians as soon as possible. 

Not tomorrow, not next year, but right away.

Fixing healthcare isn’t going to be easy. Mountains of mismanaged funds have to be reigned in and reorganized. Hospitals are under strain and need immediate help. Tough trade-offs need to be made. Innovations need immediate evaluation and consideration… and entrenched special interests that will be challenged.

But in each of these hurdles, only one thing is sure…action needs to be taken.

As Premier, I will take action. Not the month after taking office. Not one year after taking office. But on day one. 

Our loved one’s lives… our lives… depend on it.

 

 

Peter Milobar, 

MLA, Kamloops Centre
Leadership Candidate
Conservative Party of BC
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  1. AnonymousMarch 27, 2026 at 4:40 PM

    Okay. I have a few questions. We already have private care bed providers in the province, and the standard of care in some of these places is HORRIFYING. I'm not against the private sector delivering these services but I would like to know how, as premier, you will regulate them AND make them affordable. Second, I am firmly in support of fast tracking credentials recognition, for doctors as well as other nurses, nurse practitioners, and other professionals in the field. Taking administrative duties from nurses is a good idea, but it is very important that we have good records and good record keeping. Supporting the administrative capacity to do that will require money paid for, yes, bureaucracy. But it's a good use of tax dollars. I don;t want my records falling through the cracks. Lastly yes to maternal health. And so alos how do we support parents and children through childhood? Good quality care and support whether at home or in day care programs and pre-school and early education. These require tax dollars and ARE A GOOD USE OF TAXES. fund them well.

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