For-profit care homes hire Tory insiders to lobby Ford government
Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath sits in the Ontario legislature in Toronto on May 19, 2020.
“Can the Premier tell us what conversations he and/or his ministers have had with lobbyists or other interests representing for-profit long-term-care homes?” Horwath asked., who did not directly answer but said that Ontario has been tragically impacted by the “horrible, unprecedented pandemic.” Horwath went on to say that “profit-taking” has taken precedence over caregiving in Ontario’s long-term care homes and asked Ford again to provide details about any meetings he or his staff have had with the lobbyists.“There is no smoking gun here. If there is a smoking gun, it is COVID-19,” she said.
“There are many people that want to be involved in providing input in something so tragic as what has happened with COVID-19. As Minister of Long-Term Care, I value that input.”HuffPost has asked the government for its response to the NDP’s statement but has not yet received an answer.into the pandemic’s impact on the long-term care sector. The NDP says that falls short of what’s necessary, which is a full public inquiry.
The majority of Ontario’s COVID-19-related deaths have happened in long-term care homes. Of the 1,962 people who’d died of the disease
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