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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
February 22, 2023 09:00AM
  • Feb/22/23 4:20:00 p.m.
  • Re: Bill 60 

I want to talk about something a little different, because it’s always a good idea to go back over history. Let’s go back into the Mike Harris history. When we had this same debate in this very House about long-term care and how much better it was than—if we had private long-term care, how it would be better for our moms, our dads, our aunts, our uncles, our brothers and our sisters. Guess what happened? It wasn’t true. That whole debate was a lie. It wasn’t about care; it was about profit. Shareholders got rich. Do you know what happened to our moms and dads, our aunts, our uncles during COVID in these long-term-care facilities? They died—5,400 of them died, most of them in for-profit long-term care.

My question—she did a great presentation, by the way—is, why would anyone want to privatize, for profit, our publicly funded, publicly delivered health care system after what we’ve seen and have gone through for the last three years in long-term-care facilities?

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