August 7, 1992 Hansard
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LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF SASKATCHEWAN August 7, 1992 The Assembly met at 2 p.m. many petitions to present today. And because they’re on the same topic as my colleague from Rosthern, I will just read the prayer. ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your PRESENTING PETITIONS Honourable Assembly may be pleased to cause the government to reverse its decision to eliminate full coverage Mr. Neudorf: — Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I rise and universal access to chiropractic treatment and that your today, Mr. Speaker, to present to the legislature petitions signed Honourable Assembly withhold consent from any by many, many, literally thousands of people in the province. government proposal to discriminate against chiropractic And I would like to read the preamble and the prayer of this patients by charging them fees not assessed for any other petition, Mr. Speaker. medical treatment. To the Honourable Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan And I have over a dozen pages here, Mr. Speaker, a couple of in legislature assembled: hundred names. Places like Melfort, Porcupine Plain, Canora, Pathlow, Fosston, Paddockwood, Zenon Park, Melfort, Tisdale, The petition of the undersigned citizens of the province of Annaheim, Naicam, Prud’homme, Creighton, Archerwill, St. Saskatchewan humbly showeth: Benedict, Mistatim, Porcupine Plain, Bruno, Asquith, Prince Albert — lots of Prince Albert — Hudson Bay, Wadena, St. that back pain and other highly prevalent Brieux, Nipawin, Birch Hills, a whole page of Saskatoon, Morse, neuro-musculo-skeletal disorders are extremely costly to the Kyle, Swift Current, Ernfold, Hodgeville, Allan, Eston. I would Canadian economy; say, Mr. Speaker, that just about the entire province is represented in the 12 pages that I present to the legislature today. that scientific evidence clearly illustrates that chiropractic I do present. treatment is the most effective and efficient therapy for such disorders; Mr. Devine: — Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to join with my colleagues in presenting a petition with respect to chiropractic that in the face of an ever increasing pressure to adopt care. I will just read the prayer: expensive new forms of high technology treatment, chiropractic care has proven to be a low technology, low Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your cost, conservative, and safe form of treatment, consistent Honourable Assembly may be pleased to cause the with the true wellness model of health care; government to reverse its decision to eliminate full coverage and universal access to chiropractic treatment and that your that the government publicly asserts it remains committed to Honourable Assembly withhold consent from any the basic principles of medicare, namely universality, government proposal to discriminate against chiropractic comprehensiveness, accessibility, portability, and public patients by charging them fees not assessed for any other administration; medical treatment. that the government is acting to destroy these principles as And as in duty bound, your petitioners will ever pray. they apply to chiropractic patients; There are 15 pages, 16 pages of petitioners here, Mr. Speaker, and that the government’s proposed restrictions on this about 230 to 240. People come from Lumsden, Strasbourg, therapy will clearly cost more in both dollars and in patient Findlater, Regina, Craven, Bethune, Tuxford, Silton, Melville, disability. Spy Hill, Yorkton — several from Yorkton — MacNutt; we find several from the Saltcoats area; and more and more from Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your Yorkton; a large number from Regina, from all parts of the city, Honourable Assembly may be pleased to cause the couple, three, four pages; Aberdeen, Saskatchewan; we have government to reverse its decision to eliminate full coverage some more from Saskatoon; several from various constituencies and universal access to chiropractic treatment and that your there, Langham, North Battleford, again a large number from Honourable Assembly withhold consent from any Saskatoon, Blaine Lake. I received several more from the area of government proposal to discriminate against chiropractic Saskatoon and in Saskatoon and Langham; Radisson, patients by charging them fees not assessed for any other Saskatchewan; Watrous; and more from the city of Saskatoon; a medical treatment. large number from Hague; Elrose; Warman; several from Langham; Saskatoon again; Radisson. I see also Limerick, And as in duty bound, your petitioners will ever pray. Saskatchewan; from Moose Jaw, a large number coming in from various addresses; some more from Limerick; and Gravelbourg. Mr. Speaker, I have close to a thousand petitions here. My colleagues will also be handing in many. This will bring it to I’ll table these, Mr. Speaker. about 6,000 petition names that we have handed thus far only on the chiropractic practices of this government. Mr. Swenson: — Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I also have 2093 August 7, 1992 Mr. Martens: — Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to also table come from right across the province. I have petitions signed here these petitions that have been sent in as a result of changes in the from Regina, people from Broadview and Lipton and Climax. chiropractic care, and I want to provide them to the Assembly at Mr. Speaker, from Rhein and Kamsack, Canora, Wadena, this time. Wroxton, Buchanan, Churchbridge, Fort Qu’Appelle, Hyas. They are from all over Saskatchewan, and I will not read the Mr. Speaker, in fact one of the petitions here, obviously must names, but there are significant from my own city of Swift have run out of room and they turned it over and they filled it up Current. on the back as well, so there’s an indication that there’s a strong feeling out there, that people are very dissatisfied with the Mr. Britton: — Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have also about 14 process. So, Mr. Speaker, I present these petitions. pages of petitions, and I will not read the preamble, I’ll just maybe read the prayer: Mr. D’Autremont: — Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I too have a number of petitions to present about chiropractic care. I’ll just Therefore your petitioners humbly pray that your read the prayer: Honourable Assembly may be pleased to cause the government to reverse its decision to eliminate full coverage Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your and universal access to chiropractic treatment, and that your Honourable Assembly may be pleased to cause the Honourable Assembly withhold consent from any government to reverse its decision to eliminate full coverage government proposal to discriminate against chiropractic and universal access to chiropractic treatment and that your patients by charging them fees not assessed by any other Honourable Assembly withhold consent from any medical treatment. government proposal to discriminate against chiropractic patients by charging them fees not assessed for any other And as in duty bound, your petitioners humbly pray. medical treatment. Mr. Speaker, these also come from a wide area — Kenosee, And as in duty bound, your petitioners will ever pray. Wawota, Parkman, Kenosee Lake; Windthorst, I think it is. Kennedy, Kinley, Carlyle, Kipling, some more from Carlyle, and Mr. Speaker, to read through the names of the locations from Kenosee again. Oxbow, Kennedy, Arcola, Viceroy, Corning, a where all these petitions come from is like reading a road map of lot from Regina, Mr. Speaker. I will not give you the addresses. Saskatchewan: Weyburn, Yellow Grass, Colgate, Carlyle, There are several pages right from the city of Regina. Manor, Fillmore, Tyson, Ogema, Saskatoon, Rosetown, Dundurn, Cochin, Regina, Crane Valley, Swift Current, Prince And also, into Southey, Butterfield, Broadview; a lot more Albert, Madison, Domremy, Snowden, Meskanaw, Albertville, Regina. Regina, a lot of Regina. Osler, Southey again; a lot more Weirdale, Christopher Lake, Borden, Eston, Moose Jaw, Regina people; another full page of Regina, Saskatoon, Hepburn. Briercrest, Avonlea, Caronport, Craik, Mortlach, Fir Mountain, It’s all across the province, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to table these at Chaplin, Limerick, North Battleford and Battleford, Hafford, this time. Handel, Unity, Cut Knife, Luseland, Macklin, Wilkie, Senlac, Scott, Major, Landis, Yorkton, Saltcoats, Wroxton, Stornoway, Mr. Toth: — Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I believe Sturgis, Tonkin, Ituna, Bankend, Endeavour, Langenburg, and it’s fitting that we have these petitions to present to the Assembly Churchbridge. All told, Mr. Speaker, there are 21 pages of in light of the debate that has been taking place regarding the petitions I wish to present to the Assembly. health issue and the fact that there are many people, as we see in the petitions, have indicated that they are very unhappy with the Mr. Goohsen: — Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have as well many way the government has dealt with the health and the chiropractic petitions to present to the Assembly today: services. Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your And at this time I would like to read the prayer on the petitions Honourable Assembly may be pleased to cause the that have been presented to me to present to this Assembly: government to reverse its decision to eliminate full coverage and universal access to chiropractic treatment and that your Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your Honourable Assembly withhold consent from any Honourable Assembly may be pleased to cause the government proposal to discriminate against chiropractic government to