Ford vows to take action after military report details ‘disturbing’ allegations at five Ontario long-term care homes
Flowers sit on a bench in front of the Orchard Villa care home, in Pickering, Ont., on April 27, 2020.A new report from the military helping battle COVID-19 in five long-term care facilities in Ontario has exposed the extent of the ugly conditions facing residents, Premier Doug Ford said on Tuesday, as he raised the prospect of criminal charges.
At the request of Quebec and Ontario, the Canadian Armed Forces have been helping out at nursing homes, which overall have accounted for most of Canada’s 6,566 deaths from COVID-19. More than 80 per cent of fatalities in Quebec have been in such facilities. “It was gut-wrenching. I was up all night thinking of this,” Ford said. “There’ll be accountability, there’ll be justice.”
As of Tuesday, the Armed Forces reported that 36 members working in long-term care homes in Ontario and Quebec had become sick – a 30 per cent jump in less than a week. Of those, 22 infected were in Quebec and 14 in Ontario.
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