Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown was back in Sault Ste. Marie on Wednesday; campaigning with the party’s candidate in the next week’s by-election, Ross Romano.

They were at the FJ Davey long term care facility on Wednesday morning, to talk about health care spending and a PET scanner for the city.

Brown told CTV he believes the Sault is being short changed when it comes to the funding needed to offer proper care.

"There should be one standard of care around Ontario,” said Brown.

“Whether you are in downtown Toronto, whether you are in Sault Ste. Marie, you should have access to timely reliable care. Right now, that’s not the case. There’s two tier health care in this province. It’s how you treat Northern Ontario, it's how you treat the Sault."

“The cost to get a mobile PET scanner up and running in Sault Ste. Marie would be about $500,000 and it could be set up in a matter of months," said Romano.

"The PET scanner would be able to service from here all the way to Barrie and it would rotate on a week to week basis, so each week it would be in a different jurisdictions. Right now, in Northern Ontario, North Eastern Ontario, we don't have any form of PET scanners."