IT’S TIME TO PROTECT OUR SENIORS AND NOT PLAY POLITICS, SAY NDP MLAS
IT’S TIME TO PROTECT OUR SENIORS AND NOT PLAY POLITICS, SAY NDP MLAS
SURREY – New Democrat MLAs in the South Fraser region are calling on their Liberal counterparts to join them in standing up for seniors who are facing eviction from Zion Park Manor.
"It’s time for our whole community to work together to stop these evictions and save the beds at Zion Park Manor," said Delta North MLA Guy Gentner, the NDP critic for seniors’ health. "Everyone knows it’s a bad decision to close these beds – it’s bad for the residents, bad for the families and bad for our whole community."
Gentner said the distress caused by news of the plan to close 71 beds at Zion Park has been compounded by flip-flops and misinformation from the Campbell government.
"Last week families were told that none of the residents would be forced to move if they didn’t want to, but now the Campbell government has confirmed that the evictions will go ahead as planned," he said. "Evicting seniors from a home they love is not just mean-spirited and insensitive. It compromises their health."
Gentner – along with Surrey MLAs Harry Bains, Jagrup Brar, Sue Hammell and Bruce Ralston – are calling on the Campbell government to immediately stop the plans the close the 71 beds.
