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OTTAWA—The wait times between radio ads claiming Premier Doug Ford is fixing Ontario’s crumbling health-care system have been substantially reduced. This relentless public relations campaign—likely costing Ontario taxpayers millions of dollars—is in sharp contrast to the reality faced by anyone who needs urgent care in the province’s hospitals after six years of the Ford regime.
” In total, according to a recent Globe and Mail investigation, hospitals in Ontario collectively paid more than $168-million in public funds to for-profit nursing agencies in the first three quarters of 2022-23 alone. That was more than four times the $38.1-million the province’s hospitals laid out for agency nurses in all of 2020-21, The Globe reported.
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