Thread by @downtownrob88

Dec 2021, Ford furtively rams pre-holiday Bill 37, the Long-Term Care Homes Act, through the legislature, greasing the way for billions of public funds to be funnelled to some of Ontario’s 350-plus private-sector LTCs, including Sienna, Revera and Mike Harris's Chartwell;../2

To date, no fines have been issued by the province to any long-term-care home for pandemic failures;

More than half of the approximately 60,000 new and redeveloped beds in the government’s $6.4B 2022 health plan are set to go to private, for-profit companies — many of which.../3

...had far higher death rates than non-profit and city-run chains;

Non-profit nursing homes are set to receive just over 30% of the total beds. Municipal LTC chains, which reported by far the lowest death rates during the pandemic, will receive just 6%:

Report on Q2 2021.../4

...budget found $2.5B for health, education and children & social services, including autism, inexplicably left unspent -- 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙘;

Ford slashed the number of paramedic service providers from 59 to 10 in 2019; the Association of Municipalities of Ontario.../5

...criticized Ford ’s back-of-the-envelope, lack-of-consultation process in decision making;

Autism services are disrupted, with 53,109 still on a waiting list as of Mar/22. Parents say the wait for core services has doubled under Ford;

After scapegoating him for almost 18.../6

...months, Ford announces in a Sunday press release that the ineffectual, often muddled chief medical officer of health, Dr. David Williams, would be fired/not rehired. The June 26, 2021 decision followed challenges from HCWs who questioned the doctor's public health advice.../7

...during successive waves of the pandemic.

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