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Decentralized Democracy

Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
April 27, 2023 09:00AM
  • Apr/27/23 9:20:00 a.m.
  • Re: Bill 60 

I’ll just talk to the response to that question quickly. It was a Conservative government that closed 43 hospitals and laid off 6,000 nurses—under their watch. It was also the Conservative government, under Mike Harris, that brought in the privatization of our long-term-care facilities, which also, as we’ve seen over the course of COVID—5,500 of our moms, our dads, our aunts, our uncles, our brothers, our sisters died in long-term-care, but the stat that jumps out at you is that 78% of those died in long-term-care facilities that were private. It wasn’t about care. It was about profit. That’s the record.

Why would you ever think to go down the same road that you did with long-term care after you have that example in front of you? As you privatize our health care system across the province of Ontario, more people will die.

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