Part 2
officials. We have not been able to count on our provincial government to end the pandemic. We need to ensure a plan is in place for the testing and vaccination of our children and youth to make schools and childcare centres as safe as possible, and to give families who
have been screaming for change since the very beginning the tools and mental health support they truly deserve. That is why it has been completely discouraging to see our province refusing to lay the groundwork to understand how COVID spreads in schools, how we can adapt our
approach to change daily health screens and add proper surveillance with rapid testing. Credible scientists, statisticians, epidemiologists, and physicians have been working exceedingly hard to understand COVID and all it’s variants and your mandate must include applying the
current body of knowledge to future plans and policy. Doing so will ensure our provincial government stops sitting complacently on the sidelines, starts promoting actual measures to keep COVID out and schools open while beginning the arduous job of restoring public faith in the
system’s ability to protect our children.
We have been working tirelessly since the onset of the pandemic and look forward to you embracing this opportunity, this moment right now, to advocate for the health and safety of all children and teachers under your thumb.
TO: Premier Ford, Minister Lecce, Minister Elliott, CMOH Dr. Moore, All publicly funded school boards and teacher unions
We do not appreciate the alleged partnership you have failed to cultivate with parents and teachers as we continue to respond to the global pandemic. It has
been an unprecedented challenge to our country, which has been consistently and continuously compounded by the inaction and unresponsiveness of elected officials, the CMOH, PHUs, boards, and teacher unions working in seamless conjunction to establish a metanarrative that is
strangling the truth. This challenge is particularly evident when looking at our schools and our childcare centres that were denied the same equity as businesses across the province when we demanded Rapid Testing to keep our children, schools and communities safe. We are