A Winnipeg member of Parliament who experienced violence first-hand in his work as a doctor says violent incidents in Winnipeg hospitals are on the rise — and he’s calling on his fellow MPs to do something about it.
Doug Eyolfson, the Liberal MP for Charleswood-St. James-Assiniboia-Headingley and a physician, was set to table a petition Friday calling for a federal strategy to address growing violence against Canadian health-care workers.