Photo: The Canadian Press Premier John Horgan answers questions from the media in Victoria, BC, Tuesday, February 8, 2022. The premier says he is considering taking the same approach as a Victorian couple who placed a newspaper ad to find a family doctor in his effort to pressure the federal government to increase health funding. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Ippolito British Columbia Premier John Horgan says he’s considering taking the same approach as a Victorian couple who placed a newspaper ad to find a family doctor in an effort to push the federal government to increase health funding. Horgan says the ad worked for Janet and Michael Mort, who now have a family doctor after months of searching, leading him to possibly employ the same tactic after earlier failed attempts to secure more federal health dollars. However, Janet Mort says she is not happy that her husband also had to resort to public action to get health care and is offended by Horgan’s “mouth-in-cheek response”. Mort, who is a recipient of the Order of B.C. for her public education work, says she has written a letter to Horgan asking for a meeting to discuss fixing health care in BC, with or without federal aid. Mort says several doctors have contacted her since placing the ad in the Victoria Times-Colonist, and her 82-year-old husband now has a Thursday appointment with his new family doctor. Horgan says Canada’s premiers lobbied the federal government for increased health funding last month during meetings in Victoria. About one million people in B.C. they don’t have a family doctor.
